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The Polish or Noble Uprisings?

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In this chapter it is described how Poland–Lithuania was removed from the political map of Europe by Russia, Prussia and the Austrian Habsburgs . Because four-fifths of Poland–Lithuania’s territory ended up in Russia, the two uprisings of 1830–1831 and 1863–1864 that sought to re-establish Poland–Lithuania took place in Russia’s section of the former Poland–Lithuania. In the Polish national master narrative both uprisings are labeled as ‘national.’ In reality those who rebelled came from among the ranks of the Polish–Lithuanian nobility that accounted for a mere 6–7% of the entire population. The noble insurrectionists stood no chance against the Russian conscript army. Catholic Slavophone serfs did not come to their lords’ aid, because they had no stake in these uprisings.

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Kamusella, T. (2017). The Polish or Noble Uprisings?. In: The Un-Polish Poland, 1989 and the Illusion of Regained Historical Continuity. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60036-9_4

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