Polish nonviolent resistance against foreign occupation 1795–1918: A post-revisionist perspective

In the wake of the “color revolutions” of the 2000s and the Arab Spring revolutions of the early 2010s, there has been an explosion of scholarship on nonviolent resistance, including on its history. A paradigmatic volume in this wave of historical writing was a 2013 work titled Recovering Nonviolent History. Civil Resistance in Liberation Struggles, edited by Professor Maciej Bartkowski. Lubecki’s chapter is indented to be a post-revisionist response to Recovering Nonviolent History, specifically to the book’s chapter on Poland, but also to the book’s broader claims. First, Lubecki presents a broad panorama of the Polish case in its historical context. Second, the chapter will critically reexamine Bartkowski’s specific claims about Polish nonviolent resistance. Third, broader conclusions will be drawn from Lubecki’s post-revisionist claims.