"A much needed work. It will be eagerly read not only by scholars and laymen interested in the struggle of several generations of Poles for the restoration of their national state, but also by others who are dedicated to the liberation of small peoples from the tyranny of modern empires."

• PART ONE: THE AFTERMATH OF PARTITIONS, 1795-1830The Country and the People"Poland is not yet Lost"The Duchy of WarsawFrom the Congress of Vienna to 1830The Era of Late Classicism and Early RomanticismPART TWO: THE AGE OF INSURRECTIONS, 1830-64The November Insurrection and Its AftermathThe Decade of Hope and Despair, 1846-56At the Crossroads: the January InsurrectionThe Era of RomanticismPART THREE: TOWARD A MODERN SOCIETY: THE AGE OF ORGANIC WORK, 1864-90Russian Poland and the Industrial RevolutionGalician Autonomy and the Kulturkampf in Prussian PolandThe Lithuanian and Ukrainian National RevivalThe Era of PositivismPART FOUR: ON THE ROAD TO INDEPENDENCEThe Rise of Mass MovementsFrom Revolution to World WarThe First World War and the Rebirth of PolandThe Era of "Young Poland"Bibliographical EssayIndex

"A much needed work. It will be eagerly read not only by scholars and laymen interested in the struggle of several generations of Poles for the restoration of their national state, but also by others who are dedicated to the liberation of small peoples from the tyranny of modern empires."

• PART ONE: THE AFTERMATH OF PARTITIONS, 1795-1830The Country and the People"Poland is not yet Lost"The Duchy of WarsawFrom the Congress of Vienna to 1830The Era of Late Classicism and Early RomanticismPART TWO: THE AGE OF INSURRECTIONS, 1830-64The November Insurrection and Its AftermathThe Decade of Hope and Despair, 1846-56At the Crossroads: the January InsurrectionThe Era of RomanticismPART THREE: TOWARD A MODERN SOCIETY: THE AGE OF ORGANIC WORK, 1864-90Russian Poland and the Industrial RevolutionGalician Autonomy and the Kulturkampf in Prussian PolandThe Lithuanian and Ukrainian National RevivalThe Era of PositivismPART FOUR: ON THE ROAD TO INDEPENDENCEThe Rise of Mass MovementsFrom Revolution to World WarThe First World War and the Rebirth of PolandThe Era of "Young Poland"Bibliographical EssayIndex

"A much needed work. It will be eagerly read not only by scholars and laymen interested in the struggle of several generations of Poles for the restoration of their national state, but also by others who are dedicated to the liberation of small peoples from the tyranny of modern empires."

• PART ONE: THE AFTERMATH OF PARTITIONS, 1795-1830The Country and the People"Poland is not yet Lost"The Duchy of WarsawFrom the Congress of Vienna to 1830The Era of Late Classicism and Early RomanticismPART TWO: THE AGE OF INSURRECTIONS, 1830-64The November Insurrection and Its AftermathThe Decade of Hope and Despair, 1846-56At the Crossroads: the January InsurrectionThe Era of RomanticismPART THREE: TOWARD A MODERN SOCIETY: THE AGE OF ORGANIC WORK, 1864-90Russian Poland and the Industrial RevolutionGalician Autonomy and the Kulturkampf in Prussian PolandThe Lithuanian and Ukrainian National RevivalThe Era of PositivismPART FOUR: ON THE ROAD TO INDEPENDENCEThe Rise of Mass MovementsFrom Revolution to World WarThe First World War and the Rebirth of PolandThe Era of "Young Poland"Bibliographical EssayIndex