«Zakazana religia sprawy polskiej» w Spowiedzi Michała Bakunina

Abstrakt

The topic of the article is the way of presenting relations with Poles in The Confession by the famous 19-th century revolutionist and anarchist M. Bakunin (as we know, the work originated as a «political confession» addressed to Nicholas I). At the beginning, the descriptions of the Polish emigrants (especially Lelewel, Czartoryski, Biernacki, Mickiewicz) are quite general, but sincere. However, when describing current revolutionary events Bakunin starts to put emphasis on stereotypical — negative — ideas about Poles, which aims at showing the lack of possibility of a Polish-Russian cooperation on a political level. The deliberate choice of such a strategy allowed the author of The Confession to conduct a kind of game with Nicholas I.