God’s Playground. A History of Poland, Vol. 2. 1795 to the Present
THE PRUSSIAN PARTITION 95 In entering the town from the Central Station, we obtain a view of the imposing fortifications... Foll ...
96 PREUSSEN Commission often found itself transferring property from one German owner to another. Yet by inflating the value of ...
THE PRUSSIAN PARTITION 97 Henceforth, it was clear that the new German Reich was going to be far more inimical to Polish nationa ...
98 PREUSSEN dynastic empires. In Prussian politics, German Unification had been a cause of the Left. It was espoused by the libe ...
THE PRUSSIAN PARTITION 99 rapid strides. In 1894, the Deutscher Ostmarkenverein (German Society for the Eastern Borders) was for ...
IOO PREUSSEN warriors, gallantly holding the line against the onslaughts of marauding pagans. It was no accident, when the Emper ...
THE PRUSSIAN PARTITION 101 were obviously exposed. In the Reichstag, the Polish circle remained socially conservative, and tacti ...
4 GALICIA: The Austrian Partition (1773-1918) As kingdoms go, the life of the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria was short and sad ...
THE AUSTRIAN PARTITION^103 Map 4. Austrian Galicia, (1773-1918) tional experiments. The pious absolutism of Maria Theresa (1740- ...
1O4 GALICIA ruling effectively. Throughout the period, the imperial government in Vienna was so besieged by intractable problems ...
THE AUSTRIAN PARTITION 105 opened in 1848. The Galician oil-field at Boryslaw, discovered in the 1860s, was producing over 2 mil ...
106 GALICIA After 1867, when for reasons of purely Viennese politics they were joined to the Magyars of Hungary and the Germans ...
THE AUSTRIAN PARTITION 107 GALICIA, 1887: Collected Statistics (after Szczepaiiski) I. 2. 3- 4- 5- 6. 7- 8. 9- Territory (in ...
108 GALICIA Treasury in Vienna. After 6 millions were spent on the servicing of foreign loans, and 5 millions on the upkeep of t ...
THE AUSTRIAN PARTITION 109 Polish noblemen in patriotic enterprises. But for the peasants, it was a liberating experience of the ...
no GALICIA create a Triple Monarchy' in which Galicia would enjoy the same equal and fed- eral status as Austria and Hungary. Th ...
THE AUSTRIAN PARTITION III Rectors, and the President of the Academy, there were to be 44 deputies elected by the Landowners' Cu ...
112 GALICIA Protestant church, two synagogues, and several Roman Catholic and Greek convents. The town itself is small, the fine ...
THE AUSTRIAN PARTITION 113 Count Agenor Golichowski Jnr. (1849-1921) as Minister of Foreign Affairs, were but three names among ...
114 GALICIA asked by a police officer what he understood by Socialism, he said that it was 'the struggle of the workers against ...
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