A Man of Honour: Adam Czartoryski as a Statesman of Russia and Poland, 1795-1831 / Edition 1

by W. H. Zawadzki

Overview

This is a study of the extraordinary political career of Prince Adam Czartoryski, a Polish patriot who rose to become foreign minister of the Russian Empire under Tsar Alexander I. A controversial figure in the history of both Poland and Russia, Czartoryski played a leading role in the struggle against Napoleon Bonaparte and was instrumental in the establishment of a Polish state at the Congress of Vienna. W. H. Zawadzki's scholarly and perceptive account, based on intensive research, explores the personal, political, ideological, and economic bases of Czartoryski's long association with Russia. He assesses his role in international relations during the Napoleonic era, and examines his contribution to the cause of enlightened reform. Czartoryski emerges as an intellectualizing statesman, a committed opponent of Napoleonic imperialism, an advocate of a new European order based on nationality and liberal constitutionalism, and an early exponent of Pan-Slavism. A Man of Honour sets Czartoryski in his context as a major figure in the political history of early nineteenth-century Europe and deepens our understanding of the complex elements at work in the emergence of modern Poland.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198203032
Publisher:	Oxford University Press, USA
Publication date:	10/28/1992
Pages:	392
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 9.50(h) x 1.01(d)

Table of Contents

	List of Maps	x
	List of Abbreviations	xi
	Notes on Conventions	xiii
	A Note on Sources	xv
	Genealogical Table of the Czartoryski Family	xvii
	Introduction	1
1.	In the Russian Orbit: A Journey to St Petersburg	7
2.	Friendship, Love, and the Unofficial Committee (1795-1803)	33
3.	Towards a New International Order (1803)	61
4.	Standing Up to Bonaparte (1804)	92
5.	The Tortuous Path to Austerlitz (1805)	111
6.	After Austerlitz: Demand for Action (1806)	137
7.	Napoleon on Russia's Doorstep and the Voice of Cassandra (1806-1808)	164
8.	Caught in the Cross-Fire (1809-1812)	188
9.	The Turning of the Tide (1813-1814)	209
10.	Vienna: The Struggle for Polish Statehood (1814-1815)	234
11.	Unfulfilled Expectations (1815-1819)	259
12.	Between Reaction and Revolution (1820-1830)	281
13.	The End of the Russian Connection (1830-1831)	300
	Epilogue	322
	Bibliography	336
	Index	361

Editorial Reviews

"W. H. Zawadski presents us with an interesting portrayal of a man who tried to live in two worlds and made great efforts to try and reconcile these two antagonistic realms."—History: Reviews of New Books

"The reader is carried easily through the complex network of events in which the Prince was involved."—The Polish Review

"A masterly, detailed and thoroughly documented study of the prince's early life...His (Zawadski's) book is a must equally for historians of Poland and for diplomatic historians of Russia and western Europe."—Slavic Review

"Well written and solidly based on extensive use of the Czartoryski family archives in Cracow."—CHOICE

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