Zygmunt Gloger wobec idei niepodległości Polski

Abstract

The article examines possible reasons for the absence of the issue of Poland’s independence in Zygmunt Gloger’s abundant journalism (about one thousand titles in his bibliography). Even after 1900, when the Tzarist censorship weakened and, later, was abolished Gloger avoided addressing the issue directly. Instead, he wrote a lot about nation, native land, community, society. He did not outline his vision of future Poland–this can only be inferred from his descriptions of Polish tradition and history, which he included in his articles. As is argued, Gloger deeply internalized his trauma of the repressions after the January Uprising (1863–1864), and he developed his writing strategies in the midst of the severe imperial censorship. Gloger did not subscribe to the idea of struggle; instead, he favored the idea of working for Poland, the independence of which he did not think to be possible, concentrating in his writings on the revolution of 1905, which he saw as a historical and social cataclysm.