Poland: Forging the Polish Nation Nonviolently, 1860s-1900s (Chapter 14 from ‘Recovering Nonviolent History’)
The third and final partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1795 brought to an end the existence of the Polish state. Partitioned between Russia, Prussia, and the Habsburg Empire, it would take more than 123 years for Poland to reemerge as an independent nation-state in 1918 […]
From the book ‘Recovering Nonviolent History: Civil Resistance in Liberation Struggles’, 2013