List of Illustrations and Maps
Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1. From Radom to Paris, 1872-1894
Chapter 2. Dependence and Independence, 1894-1896
Chapter 3. Sociology and Socialism, 1897-1900
Chapter 4. Central Europe, 1901-1905
Conclusion
Appendix 1. Biographical Sketches
Appendix 2. Kelles-Krauz and People 's Poland
Appendix 3. Sources
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Timothy Snyder is Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale
University. He is the author and editor of numerous award-winning
and bestselling books including The Reconstruction of Nations:
Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569-1999; Sketches from a
Secret War: A Polish Artist's Mission to Liberate Soviet Ukraine;
The Red Prince: The Secret Lives of a Habsburg Archduke;
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and
Stalin; Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning; and On
Tyranny. This was his first book.
"In his magisterial Nationalism, Marxism, and Modern Central
Europe...Timothy Snyder re-evaluates an intellectual prodigy whose
death from tuberculosis at the tragically early age of thirty-three
robbed Polish socialism of a political talent to rival that of more
long-lived luminaries....In this mission of rehabilitation but not
canonization, Snyder has been indefatigable in his original
research and scrupulous in his overall judgement....[His]
thoughtful
investigation into the world so briefly inhabited by Kelles-Krauz
is richly informative, with illuminating insights into, in
particular, the divisive but ineffectual squabbles endemic to the
international
socialist intelligentsia and the lonely, suicide-prone existence of
the political existence of the political emigré."--Raymond Pearson,
English Historical Review
"This work is an impressive intellectual biography of a Polish
socialist, Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz. While little known outside of
Poland, his writings occupy a key position in the Marxist debates
from the turn of the century concerning nationalism and the
aspirations for national independence of different nationalities in
the large European empires. In writing this biography of
Kelles-Krauz, Snyder has given us a comprehensive intellectual
portrait of an entire
age. His discussion of the main issues of the time is sweeping in
scope, and he has provided meticulous references to guide the
reader to the source material. The book presupposes some
familiarity with
the topic, but will be very useful to any serious reader interested
in a more complete understanding of the emergence of modern
nationalism, as well as of the debates within the socialist
movement in response to this phenomenon."--James H. Satterwhite,
Slavic and East European Journal
"What Snyder offers is a stimulating political and intellectual
biography of an overlooked theoretician from the gentry
intelligentsia. This political class brought modern political
parties to Russian Poland, led these parties, and built the Second
Republic. . . Snyder establishes Kelles-Krauz's place within Polish
political history alongside Pilsudski, Luxemburg, Max Weber, and
Gyorgy Lukacs...The biography is intellectually rich and
challenging scholarship.
It rests upon an extensive reading of politics, history, sociology,
philosophy, and economy and enlarges our knowledge of European and
Polish socialism."--Stanislaus A. Blejwas, Slavic Review
"It is a Polish paradox that the leading theorist of the main
current in Polish socialism was of baronian German origin...He was
actually exceptional in several respects: he justified the
nation-state when Marxists in general rejected it...The history of
socialism and communism in eastern Europe is definitely
fascinating. Not being able to survive in their home countries, the
local leftists moved to Paris, London, Berlin, Bern, Brussels, etc.
On the one hand
they directly or indirectly gave support to the Western leftist
movements and on the other hand they themselves willingly or
unwillingly were exposed to foreign influences. Kelles-Krauz
himself was
definitely open-minded and therefore absorbed much democratic
thinking...It is no surprise that he was unpopular among them and
under Soviet rule in Poland as well as in pro-Soviet neighboring
countries his writings were ignored. It is very good indeed that
Timothy Snyder has remembered him."--Alexander J. Marejko, Polish
Review
"The book reveals the testimony of a great thinker and passionate
politician, whose ideas are as candid today as they were almost a
hundred years ago....The idea that nationality is a consciousness
rather than blood, geography, and language indicates Kelles-Krauz's
understanding of the difference between ethnicity and nationality
as it is presented today by social scientists....The author shows
himself to be a meticulous and erudite researcher. I applaud
Timothy Snyder for his craftsmanship in presenting Kazimierz
Kelles-Kraux to the academic world of the late twentieth
century."--Ludomir R. Lozny, Canadian Slavonic Papers
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