Nationalism: The Role Of Communism In Poland During The 19th Century

How did nationalism affect Poland during the 19th century and 20th century?
Introduction
Poland is located in between former territories of Russia, Czechoslovakia and Germany. Historically, these countries were stronger than Poland during the 19th and 20th centuries. As a result this lead to nationalism and a change in the view of the nobility in Poland. Overall, nationalism is described as a feeling people have of being loyal and proud of their country. In regards to the people of Poland, they felt proud and loyal to Poland, but were often controlled by other countries. This feeling of nationalism became as a strong gradual movement in the 19th century due to the control. The following themes of the political background, type of nationalist feelings and movements, and wars fought affecting nationalism in Poland will be analyzed in this essay.
Political background affecting Nationalism

In Poland during the 19th century, the domination of the nobility would come to end and the power would shift to the people.

Political power was shifted from the monarchy to the people as industry began to develop in Poland and this created the middle class. This creation of the middle class and democrization of political life away from the monarchy provided the people with more control. By the 20th century, political life became more democratic as the common man became more politically active. Even the farmers played an important role in this movement and in the 1920s, polish peasants fought against the communist Bolshevics in defense of their

country.

Type of Nationalist feelings and movements
In Poland nationalism played a vital role in the development of Poland in the modern world. With the ascent of mass Polish political gatherings in the most recent decade of the nineteenth century, the subject of national minorities, including Jews, turned into a vital issue on people in general motivation. The Polish left, drove by the Polish Socialist Party under Jozef Pilsudski, sought to the reclamation of Poland in the fringes of the old Polish commonwealth. The Polish right, recap in the National Democrats under Roman Dmowski, imagined a more reduced, all the more ethnically Polish Poland later on, in spite of the fact that they too felt that some regions in the east, regardless of the possibility that not greater part Polish, ought to be held by Poland for key or verifiable reasons. In their perspective, the goals of the national minorities ought not to be recognized. Congress Poland experienced fast and broad financial change amid the nineteenth century. In spite of the fact that by far most of Poland's populace stayed country, urban settlements became outstandingly. As in different nations, the push of destitution and overpopulation in the wide open and the draw of new openings for work conveyed numerous individuals to the creating urban areas looking for better lives. A blast in industry and trade started in midcentury, the outcome in piece of leader choices taken in the 1820s, when the Russian powers supported German weavers and mechanical laborers to settle in various towns in the Lodz district by ensuring them uncommon benefits. The monetary change of Congress Poland got an unequivocal support in the years 1865–1870, much obliged, in addition to other things, to the evacuation in 1851 of the traditions outskirt in the middle of Russia and the Congress Kingdom, the suspension of British imports to Russia between the Crimean War.

Wars fought affecting nationalism in Poland
In the Interwar Poland, 1918-1939. The Great Empires that partitioned Poland fell during this war. At the end of World War 1 on the 11th November 1918 Poland independence was restored. After more than 1 century of foreign rule the Polish republic began. This period saw that economic, political, and social reconstruction.
Conclusion
Overall with all the political, nationalism, and socialism movements Poland emerged into strong and a peaceful nation. It developed as a peaceful and independent country.