POLAND EPUB ED EB

Adam Zamoyski

• Publisher: HarperPress
• Year: 2009
• Print ISBN: 9780007556212
• eBook ISBN: 9780007322732
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: 20th Century History
• Index: History

Adam Zamoyski first wrote his history of Poland two years before the collapse of the Soviet Union. This substantially revised and updated edition sets the Soviet era in the context of the rise, fall and remarkable rebirth of an indomitable nation.

In 1797, Russia, Prussia and Austria divided Poland among themselves, rewriting Polish history to show that they had brought much-needed civilisation to a primitive backwater. But the country they wiped off the map had been one of Europe's largest and most richly varied, born of diverse cultural traditions and one of the boldest constitutional experiments ever attempted. Its destruction ultimately led to two world wars and the Cold War.

Zamoyski's fully revised history of Poland looks back over a thousand years of turmoil and triumph, chronicling how Poland has been restored at last to its rightful place in Europe.

INDEX

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Act of Insurrection (1794) 214

Act of Union, Orthodox-Catholic church, Brześć (1596) 139, 140

Acta Henriciana 84, 86, 107-8, 114, 117

Adalbertus, St (Wojciech) 5, 6, 9

Afghanistan 374, 375

Agricultural Society 240-1, 242-3

agriculture 1, 17, 31, 50, 95-6, 120-1, 153-5, 183, 201-2, 240-1, 242-3, 251-2, 262-3, 265, 269, 271-2, 307-8, 369

air force 314, 319

AK (Armia Krajowa) 321, 322-3, 325, 326-9, 331, 332, 333, 336, 342, 344, 363, 367, 390, 407

Alabiano, Garcias 127

Aldobrandini, Cardinal 125

Aleksander, King of Poland 46, 56

Alexander I, Tsar of Russia 221, 224, 225-6, 227, 228

Alexander II, Tsar of Russia 240, 241, 245, 283

Alexander III, Pope 20-1

Alexey, Tsar of Muscovy 147, 154, 155

Algeria 249

Algirdas (Olgierd), Grand Duke of Lithuania 34

Alliance of the Democratic Left (SLD) 389, 391, 392, 394, 398

American Civil War 248-9

American Food Mission 308

Anabaptists 64

Anders, General Władysław 324, 325, 326

Andrew II, King of Hungary 22

Andropov, Yurii 372, 379

Andruszowo, Treaty of (1667) 151

Andrzejewski, Jerzy 360

Anna Jagiellon, Queen of Poland 106, 108, 109, 125

Annibale di Capua, Papal Legate 113

Antall, Jozsef 401

anti-Semitism see Jewish people and culture

Anti-Trinitarians 64; see also Arians

architecture: Baroque 170, 171, 175; Bohemian 52; Burgundian 52; Flemish 52; Franconian 52; German 52; Kraków 52; nineteenth-century 230; Renaissance 94, 96-7, 98, 170; Romanesque 14; Royal Castle 96, 202, 203; seventeenth-century grand country residences 185-6; Stanislavian period 202; Warsaw 52, 202, 230; Zamos 96-8

Arciszewski, Krzysztof 135

Arians 64, 65, 73, 75, 76, 99, 125, 126, 127, 128

Armenians 32, 58, 78, 93, 97, 98

army: AK (Armia Krajowa) 321, 322-3, 325, 326-9, 331, 332, 333, 336, 342, 344, 363, 367, 390, 407; Commonwealth 90, 111-12, 117, 120; ’Current Defence Force’ 90; foreign legions of 220-2, 224-6, 236, 248-9; funding 90, 117, 163; Husaria 134-5; in exile, World War II 319; levee en masse 90, 145; military fashion 170-1; military science 132; partition and 196; Piechota Wybraniecka 133; public attitudes towards 90; ’Quarter Troops’ 90, 132-3; Sejm and 205, 206; size of 90, 121, 233; szlachta and 133, 134; volunteers 133-4; World War II 314, 315-16, 326; see also under individual battle and commander

arts: arcadia, idea of and search for within 98, 101-2, 253-4; Bible translations 54, 99; Catholic Church promotes 53; Commonwealth 98-105; early Polish 98-9; Enlightenment 197-8; fifteenth-century 52-3; influence of Polish arts throughout Europe 102; Italian influence upon 53-4, 85; Jesuit influence upon 128; novel and short story 278-9, 281; painting 202, 280; People’s Republic 346, 352-3, 359-60, 377-8; poets 100-2, 103-4, 131-2, 198, 230, 252-3; political writing 99-100; Positivist Movement 277-80, 281; preoccupation with public affairs and government 99-100; printing presses first used 54, 98, 104; Renaissance 85; Romanticism 252-7, 279; Stanisław Augustus patronises 202-3; theatre 198, 278

Association of Polish Youth (ZMP) 346

astronomy 103

Auerstadt, Battle of (1806) 221

Augustus II, King of Poland 176-7, 178, 179, 180, 181, 182

Augustus III, King of Poland 180, 181, 191, 193

Auschwitz (Oświęcim) 317

Austria xix, 23, 91, 168, 180, 188, 194, 196, 205, 210, 213, 216, 217, 219, 220, 222, 226, 229, 235, 237, 239, 240, 244-5, 248, 256, 265-7, 273, 274, 291, 292, 311

Azerbaijan 404

Bach, General von dem 329

Balcerowicz, Leszek 385, 404

Balkans xx, 138, 141, 248, 401

Baltic area and people 4, 5, 15, 20, 26, 42, 56, 78, 111, 114, 135, 147, 148, 165, 176, 196, 200, 210, 265, 309, 311

Bank of Poland, Warsaw 269

Barefoot Carmelites 127

Baroque style, seventeenth century 170-5

Bartel, Kazimierz 300

Bathory, Andrew 112

Batoh, Battle of (1652) 146, 164

Baudouin, King of Belgium 368

Bavaria 156, 261

Beck, Colonel Józef 311-12

Belarus 399, 400, 402

Belgium 236

Belka, Marek 394

Belorussia xviii, 92, 245, 268, 282, 293, 296, 299, 342

Belvedere Palace 232

Belweder ceramic factory 201

Bełz 172

Bem, General 239, 249

Bembo, Cardinal Pietro 100

Benedictine Order 14, 127

ben Eliezer, Izrael 184

Beresteczko, Battle of (1650) 145

Bereza Kartuska 304

Berg, General 243

Berlin 336, 386

Berling, General Zygmunt 326, 327, 330

Bernard of Clairvaux, St 20-1

Białystok 185, 270, 306

Bielecki, Jan 389

Bielski, Marcin 99

Biernat of Lublin 62-3

Bierut, Bolesław 335, 354, 355

Birże family 63

Bismarck, Otto von 244, 261, 262, 263

Black Madonna of Częstochowa 174

Blandowski, Captain 248

Blue Army 308

Bniński, Piotr 53

Bobrowski, Stefan 243

Bogusław I, Prince of Szczecin 23

Bogusław X, Prince of Szczecin 110

Bohemia 1, 3, 4, 8, 9, 11, 12, 18, 23, 27, 28, 34, 42, 52, 57, 62-3, 64, 110

Bohomolec, Franciszek 198

Bojówki 287, 289, 301

Bolesław I, ’the Brave’, King of Poland 5, 6, 7, 8, 11

Bolesław II, ’the Bold’, King of Poland 11-12, 27

Bolesław III, ’the Wrymouth’, King of Poland 12-13

Bolesław ’the Chaste’, Duke of Kraków 19

Bolesław ’the Pious’, Duke 17

Bolko, Duke of Swidnica 30

Bologna 32, 54, 55, 100, 103

Bolsheviks 291-2, 294-5, 305

Bonaparte see Napoleon Bonaparte

Bona Sforza, Queen of Poland 68, 69

Boner, Jan 60

Boner, Zofia 75

Bór-Komorowski, General Tadeusz 328, 331

Boris Godunov, Tsar of Muscovy 121

Borodino, Battle of (1812) 229

Botero, Giovanni 118

Bourbon dynasty 91, 146, 161, 162, 163, 175, 182, 239

Brandenburg 9, 20, 23, 26, 28, 30, 149, 157, 165, 166, 167, 187

Brandt, Willy 368

Branicki, Jan Klemens 186, 191

Branicki, Ksawery 211

Branicki Palace, Białystok 185-6

Breslau 342

Brest-Litovsk, Treaty of (1918) 291

Bretislav, Duke of Bohemia 9

Brezhnev, Leonid 372, 379

Britain 57, 234, 247, 258, 260, 291, 295, 312, 313, 314, 316, 320, 323, 324, 325, 338

Brzostowski, Paweł 202

Buczacz, Treaty of (1672) 163, 167

Budny, Szymon 64

Bug river 8, 200

Bulgaria 386

Buonaccorsi, Filippo...

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• MAPS
• TABLES
• NOTE ON POLISH PRONUNCIATION
• PREFACE
• ONE People, Land and Crown
• TWO Between East and West
• THREE The Jagiellon Experience
• FOUR Religion and Politics
• FIVE Kingdom and Commonwealth
• SIX The Reign of Erasmus
• SEVEN Democracy versus Dynasty
• EIGHT Champions of God
• NINE A Biblical Flood
• TEN Morbus Comitialis
• ELEVEN The Reign of Anarchy
• TWELVE Renewal
• THIRTEEN Gentle Revolution
• FOURTEEN Armed Struggle
• FIFTEEN Insurgency
• SIXTEEN The Polish Question
• SEVENTEEN Captivity
• EIGHTEEN Nation-Building
• NINETEEN The Polish Republic
• TWENTY War
• TWENTY-ONE The Cost of Victory
• TWENTY-TWO Trial and Error
• TWENTY-THREE Papal Power
• TWENTY-FOUR The Third Republic
• Keep Reading
• Index
• By The Same Author
• About the Publisher