![]() ![]() It produced outcomes lasting for years, as well as a general contempt towards democratic demands resulting in the impossibility of collective bargaining about popular economic interests. This posed a cornerstone for the future layering of the public sphere, leading to what we call its pathogenesis. The intelligentsia's attitude was growingly tainted with a conservative fear of the masses, which inhibited the development of plebeian constituencies and forms of political articulation. The Revolution of 1905-1907 in Russian-ruled Poland, with its dramatic manifestation of the transformation of the country’s political culture, marks a major, if not entirely appreciated, watershed in modern Polish history. Consequently, their reaction was ambivalent, if not reluctant. As we argue, this situation shocked the elites, attached to their utopian vision of the Polish people, " enlightened " from above by the intelligentsia. ![]() ![]() The popular unrest initiated a massive upsurge of workers into the process of mass politics. We assert that it was a moment of clash between, on the one hand, the intelligentsia and its de facto bourgeois vision of politics, and on the other a rising proletarian counter-public. ![]() In this paper we analyze the nascent years of the Polish public sphere during the years before and after the 1905 Revolution. ROBERT BLOBAUM The Revolution of 1905-1907 and the Crisis of Polish Catholicism The Revolution of 1905-1907 in Russian-ruled Poland, with its dramatic manifestation of the transformation of the country's political culture, marks a major, if not entirely appreciated, watershed in modern Polish history. ![]()
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