Palmerston, Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount 239-40
Panufnik, Andrzej 353
Papacy 4, 5, 11-12, 28, 58, 66-7, 69, 121, 216
Paris 32, 53, 54, 107, 152, 180, 185, 190, 206, 207, 209, 210, 213, 219, 224, 234, 236, 237, 238, 245, 247, 248, 255, 276, 291, 292, 293, 294, 305, 319, 367, 399, 402
Paris Commune 248, 276
parliamentary system: class distinctions, sharpens 88; constitution and
partition, Polish xix; 1772 194-7, 205; 1793 211-13; 1795 216; Nazi-Soviet, 1939 316-17
Pasha, Iskander 142
Paskevich, General Ivan 233, 234-5
Patkul, Johann 176
Patriotic Movement for National Regeneration 377
Patriotic Society, Warsaw 230
Paul I, Tsar of Russia 217
Paul IV, Pope 70
Paul V, Pope 122
Pawłak, Waldemar 391
peasants 16-17; co-operatives 202, 240; councils 89; emancipation 271-2; farmers on szlachta estates 48; free villages (’Dutch settlements’) 50; lack of national consciousness 250; manorial courts and 50; parties 267, 284; People’s Republic 347-8; prevented from moving to towns (1496) 48; property relationship with landowners 48-50, 183-4, 201-2, 251-2, 271-2; under Prussian rule 263; Sejm increases labour-rents (1520) 50; Sejm, representation in 89; szlachta and 48, 94; tenancies, eighteenth-century reform in 201-2
Peasant Commonwealth of Pawłów (1769) 202
Peasant Party 267, 284
People’s Army (AL) 323
People’s Party 284, 319, 396
People’s Republic of Poland: aristocracy 346; art and literature 352-3, 354, 377-8; birth of 336; censorship 352; Citizens’ Militia 333, 361, 365, 374, 376, 387, 385; Communist Party 323, 334, 336, 346-7, 355, 356, 375, 382, 384, 386, 389, 392; criminal justice system 351; economy 347-51, 363, 364-5, 366, 368-9, 370-1, 373-4, 376, 377, 378, 380, 381; education 351-2, 373; ethnic groups within 342-5; family unit 351; industry 349-51; informers 351; peasants in 347-8; Poznań demonstrations (1956) 355-6, 396; press 346; purges 347; religion in 336, 345, 347, 357-8, 362, 378; Sejm 346; Stalin’s death and 354-5; ’thaw’ (1953-59) 354-9; trade unions 351; unrest within 355-7, 361-2, 363-4, 365, 366, 367-9, 371-84
Peter I, ’the Great’, Tsar 176-7, 178, 179, 180
Petliura, Ataman Symon 294
Petrycy, Sebastian 89
Philip II, King of Spain 113
Piast dynasty 3-35, 43, 45, 53, 110, 208, 345
Piattoli, Scipione 208, 209
Pieracki, Colonel Bronisław 304
Piłsudski, Józef, Marshal 285, 286-7, 289, 291, 292, 293, 294, 296, 298, 299, 300-1, 302, 303-4, 305, 310, 311, 391
Pińczów 63
Pińsk 305, 306
Piotrków 31, 45
Pius IX, Pope 256
Plague (1348) (Black Death) 31, 52
Płock 14
Płowce, Battle of (1331) 30
Podolia 158, 163, 184, 235, 295
poetry, Polish 100-2, 131-2, 198, 230, 252-3, 255
Polanie 1, 2, 3, 11
Polesie Defence Group 315
Polish Air Force 314, 319
Polish Brethren 64, 128
Polish Communist Party 323, 334, 336, 355, 346-7, 356, 375, 382, 384, 386, 389, 392
Polish Corridor 312
Polish Democratic Society 236-8, 251-2
Polish Enlightenment 197-203
Polish language 3, 52, 99, 103-4, 105, 218
Polish League 286
Polish Legions 220-2, 224-6, 236, 248-9
Polish Liberation Committee 327
Polish Military Organisation (POW) 290
Polish National Council 213, 232, 319
Polish Navy 39, 115, 135, 314, 319
Polish People’s Party (PSL Piast) 298, 300, 334-5, 391, 394
Polish Republic 297-313; agriculture 308; birth of 297-9; divided between Soviet Union and Germany (1939) 316-17; economy 308-9; education 309-10; elections
’Polish Question’ 247-57
Polish Socialist Party (PPS) 284, 285, 286, 287, 288-9, 300, 301, 305, 327, 335, 336
Polish Women’s League 352
Polish Workers’ Party (PPR) 323, 334-5, 336;
Polish-Soviet Friendship Society 352
political parties, birth of 284-7, 288-9;
Polonus, Benedictus 31
Polotsk 111, 112, 139
Poltava, Battle of 178
Pomerania 2, 4, 11, 12, 15, 20, 21, 26, 30, 110, 115, 147, 148, 238, 261, 265, 293, 315, 316, 342
Poniatowski, Józef 211
Poniatowski, Stanisław 190
Poniński, Adam 196
Popieluszko, Father Jerzy 379
population, Polish: fourteenth century 31, 52; fifteenth century 52; seventeenth century 154-5; eighteenth century 201; Commonwealth 92; Congress Kingdom 226; decrease during World War II 339
Posen, Grand Duchy of 226, 238, 239, 260
Positivist Movement 277-80, 281, 286
Possevino, Antonio 112
Potemkin, Prince 204
Potocki, Antoni Protazy 201
Potocki, Feliks 211
Potocki, Franciszek 191