God’s Playground. A History of Poland, Vol. 2. 1795 to the Present
THE GROWTH OF THE MODERN NATION 55 Russian Empire, the ally of the British Empire in two World Wars, whilst oppos- ing the forma ...
56 NAROD magnanimity, it was a bitter pill indeed. According to Wasilewski, the conquest of Wilno by the Red Army in July 1920, ...
THE GROWTH OF THE MODERN NATION 57 purist Pole was left dreaming about some special, poetical, but undefined Freedom of the futu ...
58 NAROD whose end is Resurrection.' Elsewhere he defined a nation as 'the internal union of interrelated races', in other words ...
THE GROWTH OF THE MODERN NATION 59 the overwhelming power of ruthless neighbours, and how to combine with suit- able allies agai ...
2. ROSSIYA: The Russian Partition (1772-1918) 'Russian Poland' is a name which appears neither in Russian nor in Polish his- tor ...
THE RUSSIAN PARTITION 61 Witebsk, Mscislaw, and the south-eastern area of the Palatinate of Minsk; at the Second Partition in 17 ...
62 ROSSIYA ...
THE RUSSIAN PARTITION 63 1843, after ten years in an office whose aim, as he saw it, was to turn the Tsar's subjects 'into worth ...
64 ROSSIYA but as enemies of the established social and political order. As so often in the of Russian civilization, the highest ...
THE RUSSIAN PARTITION 65 the Catholic monarchies at home. The very fact that Fenelon or Hobbes wrote elaborate and various treat ...
66 ROSSIYA When on the day of my departure, I ordered that all the students of the institutions in Vilna under my authority, som ...
THE RUSSIAN PARTITION 67 racial overtones were introduced. 'We have a different climate from the West,' wrote Pogodin, 'a differ ...
68 ROSSIYA invariably miss the point. The Poles under Russian rule learned the hard way. Whenever the Tsar was obliged to make c ...
THE RUSSIAN PARTITION 69 officer condemned to death for sedition, and reprieved from the firing squad at the last moment, and To ...
70 ROSSIYA today. Contradictory though it may seem, Poland was an integral part of Russia; Warsaw and Wilno, as Varshava and Vil ...
THE RUSSIAN PARTITION 71 picture is to be believed, the chinovnik, the 'bureaucrat', the 'Inspector- General', was a figure of f ...
72 ROSSIYA where 'schisms', 'sects', 'noxious individuals', 'foreigners', and 'frontiers', not to say 'false banknotes' or 'occu ...
THE RUSSIAN PARTITION 73 censoring the work of the censors. Its aim was to control all knowledge and all sources of information. ...
74 ROSSIYA the Warsaw School District from 1879 to 1897, political informers played an established part in the maintenance of st ...
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