Socialism in Galicia: The Emergence of Polish Social Democracy and Ukrainian Radicalism (1860-1890)

by John-Paul Himka

Overview

The linkages between nationalism and socialism and the nature of peasant and artisan politics in East Europe are the fundamental problems engaged by this study of socialism in nineteenth-century Galicia. Here, in imperial Austria's largest and easternmost crown land, Polish and Ukrainian socialists organized journeyman artisans and recently emancipated peasants into potent political forces. The origins of the socialist movements lay in democratic national movements formed in response to the introduction of the Austrian constitution. The movements crystallized into socialist political parties against the background of strained relations between the nationalities and the opening of Galicia's undeveloped economy to the industrial West.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780916458072
Publisher:	Harvard University Press
Publication date:	08/31/1983
Series:	Harvard Series in Ukrainian Studies , #11
Pages:	253
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

John-Paul Himka is Professor of History in the Department of History and Classics, University of Alberta.

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

Galicia: Poles and Ukrainians

Galician Autonomy

1. Polish Artisans, 1860-1877

The Dissolution of the Guilds and the Emergence of Voluntary Artisan Associations

Democrats, Demonstrations and the Politicization of Lviv's Artisans

Democrats and Craftsmen

Radicalization

2. Ukrainian Politics, 1860-1878

Russophilism and Ukrainophilism (National Populism)

Drahomanov and Galician Politics

Three Epistles to the Galicians

A Fanatic and a Poet: The Younger Generation

Arrests and Trials

3. Polish Socialism in Lviv and Cracow

In Defense of the Journeymen

Grappling with Theory

The Socialist Conspiracy in Cracow

A Conspiratorial Experiment in Lviv

4. Ukrainian Socialism

The Dilemma of Ukrainian Socialism

Boryslav

Franko and the Agrarian Question

Social Conflict in the Awakening Village

Radical Agitation in the Countryside

5. The Formation of Political Parties

Strikes and Assemblies

Student Radicalism in the 1880s

The Founding of Parties

The Parties and the Masses

Conclusions

Notes

Select Bibliography

Index