Civil rights and nation building in a multiethnic borderland : Lwów and Galicia 1918-1939
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This dissertation is a microhistory of civil rights in the newly founded Polish Republic, as seen through the lens of violence between the state and its citizens during the twenty-year period between the world wars. Focusing on the city of Lwów and the surrounding Eastern Galicia, this dissertation focuses on Poland's two largest minorities, Jews and Ukrainians (who together represented a quarter of the country's population) and employs an approach merging comparisons and connections to analyze the mechanisms of the conflict between the state and the citizens whose civil rights were denied. The chapters of this dissertation are focused on four distinct episodes of violence: the 1918 pogrom of Lwów's Jews by the Polish Army and local Polish population, the 1922 trial of Józef Piłsudski's failed Ukrainian assassin Stepan Iaroslav Fedak, the 1930 "pacification" of Galicia's Ukrainian countryside, and the 1936 workers' protest where fourteen Lwowians of all three ethnicities were shot and killed by the Polish State Police. This work defines the four crucial elements of the conflict between the state and its minority citizens for full civil rights: the gap between the letter of the law and the willingness of state organs to enforce it; the existence of a clearly defined root of the majority group's supposed superiority (discourses on culture, civilization, race); a projection of the dominant group's (by extension, the state's) own entitlement onto the minority groups and the condemnation of their demands for rights as demands for supposed privileges; and defining the non-dominant identities as inherently "political" and therefore anti-state. The proposed model is applicable in wider contexts regarding minorities and civil rights and is the work's contribution towards a global history of civil rights, now including East Central Europe.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2022; ©2022 |
| Publication date | 2022; 2022 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Szymków, Beata Anna |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Naimark, Norman M |
| Thesis advisor | Naimark, Norman M |
| Thesis advisor | Weiner, Amir, 1961- |
| Thesis advisor | Zipperstein, Steven J, 1950- |
| Degree committee member | Weiner, Amir, 1961- |
| Degree committee member | Zipperstein, Steven J, 1950- |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of History |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Beata Szymków. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of History. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2022. |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/yq512rr2826 |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2022 by Beata Anna Szymkow
Also listed in
Loading usage metrics...