Od narodu historycznego do wspólnoty etnicznej. Przemiany w polskiej refleksji nad narodem po 1864 roku
From the historical nation to the ethnic community: shifts in Polish depictions of the nation after 1864

Summary/Abstract: Polish depictions of the nation after 1864 show clearly that the crushing of the January Uprising augured the end of the historical concept of the nation. To capture the changes in definitions of the nation, Polish thinkers were forced to identify the most significant tropes in the literature of the time, which had paved the way for that shift in consciousness. The first distinct symptom of that transformation concerned the socalled Russian question, which involved questioning of the formally undoubted notion that Poland benefited from its close ties with Lithuania and Russia. Consciously or unconsciously, Poles came to argue against maintaining the historical concept of the nation and for a limited definition of an ethnically homogenous community.

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