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History of Poland (3208 words) |
 | The Polish state was born in 966 with the baptism of Mieszko I, duke of the Slavic tribe of Polans and founder of the Piast dynasty. |
| Polish independence ended in a series of partitions (1772, 1793 and 1795) undertaken by Russia, Prussia and Austria, with Russia gaining most of the Commonwealth's territory including nearly all of the former Lithuania (except Podlasie and lands West from Niemen river), Volhynia and Ukraine. |
| Polish nationalists were to remain among the staunchest allies of the French as the tide of war turned against them, inaugurating a relationship that continued into the twentieth century. |
| Polish Studies UK (3452 words) |
| Myth of the past is a simple version of old times, a version which tells that all the roles, moral behaviours and social divisions were clear, that heroic deeds were necessary and evil was unavoidable. |
| Polish writers, who, like writers in other former Soviet-bloc countries, opposed the idea of forgetting the wrongdoings of the past and drawing a definite line between the past and present, understood their mission as safeguarding the nation's past and recalling all its history, both glorious and painful. |
| The most noteworthy example of judging the myth of Polish national awareness of the eighties was provided in a novel by Jerzy Pilch entitled Spis cudzołożnic (A List of Adulteresses) in which the author showed the Polish tragi-grotesque situation of "post-martial law". |
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