Magdalena Micinska

At the Crossroads: 1865-1918

A History of the Polish Intelligentsia - Part 3, Edited by Jerzy Jedlicki

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The three-part work provides a first synthetic account of the history of the Polish intelligentsia from the days of its formation to World War I. The third part deals with the period between 1865 and 1918. It is 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. The study concludes with the moment when Poland regained the independence that had been lost in 1795. The work combines social and intellectual history, tracing both the formation of the intelligentsia as a social stratum and the forms of engagement of the intelligentsia in the public discourse. Thus, it offers a broad view of the group's transformations which immensely influenced the course of the Polish history.

Produktdetails

• Studies in History, Memory and Politics 9
• Verlag: Peter Lang
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 262388
• Seitenzahl: 227
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 20mm x 148mm x 210mm
• Gewicht: 390g
• ISBN-13: 9783631623886
• ISBN-10: 3631623887
• Artikelnr.: 41871265

Autorenporträt

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 Micinska is Professor at the Institute of History at the Polish Academy of Sciences.

Inhaltsangabe

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 19th and 20th centuries) - Early 20th century: intelligentsia and the growth of mass society.

Rezensionen

«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)