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Chosen as Commander of the Greater Poland Uprising of 1846, he was betrayed and arrested by Prussia. He used his trial as a platform, was sentenced to death, imprisoned in Berlin, and released during the March Revolution in Berlin.
Who is Ludwik Mierosławski?
This formation of this committee was considered to be the start date of the Greater Poland Uprising of 1848.
What is the Polish National Committee?
Congress Poland was occupied by this power.
What is the Russian Empire?
This Duchy joined with the Kingdom of Poland in 1569 to form the Commonwealth.
What is the Duchy of Lithuania?
This written document from 1791, the second of its kind in world history, was modeled on a famous US document that came into force in 1789.
What is the May 3 Constitution?
This hardline Prussian general replaced Willisen as envoy to "reorganize" Posen and carried out what Engels identified as the seventh partition of Poland, annexing most of Greater Poland to the German Confederation.
Who is Ernst Pfuel?
This organization was created in 1848 the Grand Duchy of Poznań to represent Polish interests vis-a-vis Prussia, demanding that Karl Willisen be appointed Royal Special Commissioner for the "reorganization" of the entity.
What is the Polish National Committee?
The Kingdom of Poland was also known by this name.
What is "Congress Poland"?
This event is referenced by the Iskra article "After Forty Years," discussed by the Polish Socialist Party in "The Attitude of Russian Social-Democracy to the National Question."
What is the January Uprising of 1863?
At the end of 1789, bourgeois demonstrators wearing black demanded economic and political privileges for the bourgeoisie similar to those held by nobles, including participation in the Sejm and the right to acquire landed property.
What is the Black Procession?
The Polish National Committee requested that this Polish-friendly envoy be appointed Royal Special Commissioner to "reorganize" Posen.
Who is Karl Willisen?
This organization set up a Provisional Government in the November Uprising of 1830.
What is the Patriotic Club?
This is how German-language speakers referred to Poznań.
What is Posen?
On April 11, 1848, Karl Willisen concluded this failed agreement that agreed to recognize Mierosławski's forces while reducing and relocating them.
What is the Jarosławiec Convention?
This tsar, assassinated by Narodnaya Volya, warned the szlachta not to take advantage of his reforms with the admonition: "gentlemen, no dreams!"
Who is Alexander II?
Ultra-reactionary Tsar Nicholas I died of "passive suicide" in 1855, followed by the accession of this tsar, who "emancipated" the serfs in 1861 and de facto abolished mandatory conscription in Congress Poland.
Who is Tsar Alexander II?
Future commander-in-chief of the Paris Commune Jarosław Dąbrowski, Zygmunt Sierakowski, and Ludwik Mierosławski were in this organization, which supported land to the tiller without compensation.
What is the Red Party?
In 1806, this state lost all the land it had won in the Second and Third Partitions + most of the land gained in the First Partition. It then regained territory in the form of a Grand Duchy in 1815.
What is Prussia?
Austria promoted this anti-serfdom peasant revolt, led by Jakub Szela, to defeat the independence-minded szlachta in Galicia, restoring order after the Kraków uprising was suppressed.
What is the Peasant Uprising of 1846 (also called the Galician Slaughter)?
This magnate (the first in Poland to free his own serfs) led a commission in 1780 that produced a progressive code, representing a noble-bourgeois compromise. The code was rejected by the Sejm, but incorporated into the May 3 Constitution.
Who is Andrzej Zamoyski?
In 1763, this prince was sent by Tsarina Catherine II to Poland, where he dictated a constitution that institutionalized the liberum veto.
Who is Nicholas Repnin?
This faction took control of the January Uprising of 1863, and its practical refusal to enact peasant reform was a significant reason for its failure.
What is the White Faction?
In this semi-autonomous city, Karol Libelt drafted a manifesto announcing the liberation of peasants and full equality for Jews. Shortly thereafter, the city was annexed by Austria and Libelt was arrested.
What is Kraków?
This 1815 gathering was the occasion for Engels' fifth partition (the annexation of the Duchy of Warsaw) as well as the establishment of the German Confederation.
What is the Congress of Vienna?
This is the Polish word for the conscription of 1863, which targeted progressive and revolutionary Poles and forced the PNG to prematurely call the uprising on January 22-23.
What is the "branka"?