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Author: Juliusz Słowacki
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Languages : en
Pages : 73
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Author: Juliusz Słowacki
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 73
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Author: Juliusz Słowacki
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 73
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Author: Juliusz Słowacki
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Languages : en
Pages : 73
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Author: Fred Whishaw
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781331495154
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 346
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Excerpt from Mazeppa Nevertheless, when Mazeppa was sent as page to the Polish Court, my father being dead by that time, my mother wished that I should go also, in order to acquaint myself with the ways of princes and courtiers, and attain a knowledge of life in high places. The King being at this time anxious to oblige the Cossack nation, there was little difficulty in securing employment for us. Neither Mazeppa nor l were popular among the Polish youths at Court, though I may say that the ladies were less disposed to cavil at us. We were Russian, we were told, though we stoutly denied the fact, and Russians were to the Poles at this time as the sun to the ice. The Cossacks, emancipated by our great leader, with my father and others, had lately found it difficult to stand alone, and being obliged to choose for support between Russian, Turk and Pole, had chosen the former. We were therefore, strictly speaking, under allegiance to the Tsar. Moreover, we were of the Orthodox religion; hence, though actually and jealously Cossack in nationality, we were, in a sense, and as our Polish companions loved to assure us, Russians. This was a constant source of quarrel between us and them, and in the end was the immediate cause of our departure from the Court of John Casimir. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Konstantin Symmons-Symonolewicz
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Category : Polish Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 692
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Category : Polish people
Languages : en
Pages : 608
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Author: Juliusz Słowacki
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Category : Hetmans
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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Author: Juliusz Słowacki
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Languages : en
Pages : 106
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Author: Joseph W. Zurawski
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Category : Polish Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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Author: Alexander Wöll
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134089074
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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In the absence of democratic state institutions, eastern European countries were considered to possess only myths of democracy. Working on the premise that democracy is not only an institutional arrangement but also a civilisational project, this book argues that mythical narratives help understanding the emergence of democracy without ‘democrats’. Examining different national traditions as well as pre-communist and communist narratives, myths are seen as politically fabricated ‘programmes of truth’ that form and sustain the political imagination. Appearing as cultural, literary, or historical resources, myths amount to ideology in narrative form, which actors use in political struggles for the sake of achieving social compliance and loyalty with the authority of new political forms. Drawing on a wide range of case studies including Ukraine, Russia, Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia, this book argues that narratives about the past are not simply ‘legacies’ of former regimes but have actively shaped representations and meanings of democracy in the region. Taking different theoretical and methodological approaches, the power of myth is explored for issues such as leadership, collective identity-formation, literary representation of heroic figures, cultural symbolism in performative art as well as on the constitution of legitimacy and civic identity in post-communist democracies.
