Giuseppe Mazzini’s Young Europe and the Birth of Modern Nationalism in the Slavic World

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This book explores the intellectual currents in Eastern Europe that attracted educated youth after the Polish Revolution of 1830-31. Focusing on the political ideas brought to the Slavic world from the West by Polish emigrant conspirators, this book explores the core message that the Polish revolutionaries carried, a message based on the democratic principles espoused by Young Europe's founder, Giuseppe Mazzini. Based on archival sources as well as well-documented publications in Eastern Europe, this study highlights the fact that in the 1830s the national awakening among the Czechs, Slovaks, and Galician Ukrainians was not just cultural, as is typically assumed, but political as well. The documentary sources examined in this study testify that at its inception the political nationalism in Eastern Europe, founded on the humanistic ideals promoted by Mazzini, was republican-democratic in nature, and that the clandestine groups in Eastern Europe were cooperating with one another through underground channels. It was through this cooperation during the 1830s that the better educated Poles and Ukrainians in the political underground tied to Young Europe became aware that the interests of their nations bound together by the forces of history and political necessity were best served when they worked closely with one another. 1. Young Europe as an Idea: The Impact of Exile on the Revolutionary Thought of Giuseppe Mazzini Giuseppe Mazzini and the Exiled Revolutionaries in France The Birth of the Risorgimento2. The Risorgimento and the Great Polish Emigration: A Pact Sealed in Heaven or a Marriage of Convenience?Mazzini's Introduction to the Slavic WorldThe Pivotal Role of Polish migr s in the Birth of Young Europe Mazzini and Lelewel: An Uncomfortable but Workable Team3. Reception of Mazzini's Ideas in East Central EuropePolish Perceptions of the Nationality Question in a Resurrected Poland Young Europe's Emissaries in ActionLeslaw Lukaszewicz: An "Apostle" of Young Poland among the Czechs, Slovaks, and Galician RutheniansA "Geological Expedition" and the Political Awakening of Two Nations Frantisek Kampel k's Secret Journey to Krak w4. East Galicia: The Testing Ground of Young Europe's IdealsThe Galician Capital as the Hub of Conspiratorial Action Revolutionary Currents in the Greek Catholic SeminaryA Pedagogue, a Priest, and a Revolutionary: The Rev. Mykola Hordynsky Finding a Modus Vivendi with Conservative OfficialdomThe "Ruthenian Triad" in the Context of Radical Political Thought The Tortuous History of Two AnthologiesYoung Poland under Goszczynski's Leadership5. Young Poland's Revolutionary Underground in Russian-Ruled LandsSzymon Konarski: A Mazzinian in ActionCapture and Execution of a Young EuropeanThe Impact of Konarski's Arrest on Galicia and the Neighboring Slavic Lands6. Sprouts of Young Europe in Ukraine: The Cyril and Methodius BrotherhoodA Late Offspring of Mazzini's Young EuropeThe Role of a Poet as a Disseminator of Young Europe's Ideas The Legacy of the Cyril and Methodius Brotherhood7. The 1830s: The Roots of the Spring of Nations in the Slavic World The Impact of Political Awakening among the Slovaks and the Czechs The National Awakening of the Ukrainian IntelligentsiaSlowo przestrogi as a Reflection of Ideals and Aims of the 1830s