At the Crossroads: 1865-1918: A History of the Polish Intelligentsia - Part 3, Edited by Jerzy Jedlicki

by Magdalena Micinska

Overview

This last of three parts of the History of the Polish Intelligentsia deals with the period of numerical growth of the intelligentsia, growth of its self-consciousness and at the same time of growing struggles and rivalries of various political streams. It concludes with the moment when Poland regained the independence that had been lost in 1795.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783631623886
Publisher:	Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date:	12/15/2014
Series:	Studies in History, Memory and Politics , #9
Pages:	227
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

Jerzy Jedlicki is Professor emeritus at the Institute of History at the Polish Academy of Sciences where he was head of the research group for the history of intelligentsia. He also was fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington D.C.
Magdalena Micińska is Professor at the Institute of History at the Polish Academy of Sciences.

Table of Contents

Contents: Birth of the Intelligentsia – After the partitions of Poland: Intellectuals in a divided state – Modern state institutions and the intellectuals – Insurrections or gradual change? – The intelligentsia’s sense of mission – After 1863: reactions to the national catastrophe – Intelligentsia and the modern party politics (turn of 19^th and 20^th centuries) – Early 20^th century: intelligentsia and the growth of mass society.

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Editorial Reviews

«Die insgesamt sehr flüssig geschriebenen Bände stellen auch für einen nicht auf die Ideengeschichte des 19. Jahrhunderts spezialisierten Leser eine sehr gut nachvollziehbare Darstellung der Gruppe dar, die für die gesamtgesellschaftlich-kulturelle, aber auch politisch-nationale Entwicklung zentrale Weichenstellungen vorgenommen hat. [...] Insgesamt handelt es sich um eine Synthese zur polnischen Gesellschafts- und Geistesgeschichte, die bereits jetzt zu einem Standardwerk geworden ist.»
(Heidi Hein-Kircher, Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas 6/2016)

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