TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgements ... 7
Editors and Contributors ... 8
Timothy Snyder, Introduction: In Poland Ideas Always Counted Most ... 11
Marek A. Cichocki, Poland – Between Germany and Russia ... 18
Łukasz Mikołajewski, The Pitfalls of Loyalism: Aleksander Wielopolski in Polish Political Thought ... 32
Marcin Król, The Stańczyks and Conservatism in Poland ... 47
Maciej Janowski, A Problem of Peripheral Liberalism ... 69
Marcin Król, Political Romanticism from Mochnacki to Piłsudski ... 83
Jan Skoczyński, Pessimism and Catastrophism: From Krasiński to Zdziechowski ... 99
Piotr Laskowski, The Autonomous Commune, the Independent Country and World Revolution: The Left in Polish Lands, 1830–1939 ... 121
Elżbieta Ciżewska-Martyńska, Catholicism Inside and Out: An Outline of the Resurrectionists and Intelligentsia in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries ... 156
Grzegorz Krzywiec, Roman Dmowski and Polish Nationalism until 1939 ... 185
Andrzej Mencwel, Stanisław Brzozowski: The Philosophy of Historical Maturity ... 206
Index of names ... 217