The Polish national identity issue in the second part of the XIX century
Start Date
27-3-2021 2:30 PM
End Date
27-3-2021 2:45 PM
Description
About two hundred years ago a destructive chain of events triggered one of the most difficult issues in the European history. The Polish Question is a result of centuries-old Russian-Polish contradictions and the heart of this problem is still not found. Several generations of the historians try to discover the “pressure points” of the Polish Question and find a theoretical way to build a new effective Russian-Polish interaction through the prism of the recognition and repairing past wrongs. Such a persistent and unresolved problem must continue to be on a present research agenda. In the framework of the present research, the National Identity Issue is viewed in the context of the Polish Question in the times when the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth is divided into three parts but still has an unshakable determination to struggle for independence and surviving as a nation. Analysing the National Identity Issue and the National Identity preservation problem as an important subsystem of Polish Question is the main goal of the present research. Remarkable, the self-identification process of the polish nation is uninterrupted. Being divided into parts for a long time the polish society is able to accept the challenges throughout this ordeal and save their national identity.
Recommended Citation
Krupskaia, O. (2021, March). The Polish national identity issue in the second part of the XIX century. Presented at the Postgraduate Conference on Interdisciplinary Learning: Re-Imagining Postgraduate Studies in the 21st Century and Beyond. Lingnan University, Hong Kong.
The Polish national identity issue in the second part of the XIX century
About two hundred years ago a destructive chain of events triggered one of the most difficult issues in the European history. The Polish Question is a result of centuries-old Russian-Polish contradictions and the heart of this problem is still not found. Several generations of the historians try to discover the “pressure points” of the Polish Question and find a theoretical way to build a new effective Russian-Polish interaction through the prism of the recognition and repairing past wrongs. Such a persistent and unresolved problem must continue to be on a present research agenda. In the framework of the present research, the National Identity Issue is viewed in the context of the Polish Question in the times when the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth is divided into three parts but still has an unshakable determination to struggle for independence and surviving as a nation. Analysing the National Identity Issue and the National Identity preservation problem as an important subsystem of Polish Question is the main goal of the present research. Remarkable, the self-identification process of the polish nation is uninterrupted. Being divided into parts for a long time the polish society is able to accept the challenges throughout this ordeal and save their national identity.