Sarmatians 1-2, 47, 94, 95, 96, 164, 170-1, 175, 199, 264
Saxons 2, 176, 181, 191, 196
Saxony 177, 178, 179, 196
Schmidt, Helmut 368
Schönbrunn, Treaty of 222
Schroeder, Gerhard 403
Second Polish Corps 325
Sejm 44, 57, 62, 63, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 72, 73, 76, 79, 80, 82, 83, 86, 88, 89-90, 93, 112, 163; 1496 50; 1555 proposes Church of Poland 68, 70; 1558 debate on death of Zygmunt Augustus 82; 1563 decrees inspection of starosties 73; 1573 Convocation 83, 84, 106-7; 1589 attempt to reinforce religious freedoms 113-14; 1658 discusses parliamentary reform 161; 1703 177; 1703-10, not summoned 180-1; 1712 ’Dumb Sejm’ 179; 1764, Convocation, 191, 192, 200; 1767 192-3; 1773 ratifies treaties of partition 196; 1775 200; 1780 197; 1788, Great 205-6, 207, 251; 1789 appoints commission to prepare a new constitution 206; 1818 228; 1820 228; 1825 228; 1919 297-8; army and 90; birth of 43; broken up by use of veto 181; combines with Sejm of Lithuania, 1569 80; Confederation of Warsaw (1573) and 76, 83, 84, 106-7, 113, 117, 130, 139; Congress Kingdom 226-7, 228; court of appeal function, assumes Supreme (1578) 89; debate on influence of Church in society 62; decisions published in Polish not Latin, 1543 103; degree of representation 47; election of monarch (Election Sejm) (1573) 83-4; election of monarch (1493) 45; election of monarch (1501) 46; election of monarch, Commonwealth method of 80, 82-5; foreign policy, public opinion affects 89-90; labour-rent, increases (1520) 50; loses control over foreign affairs 115-16;
sejmik courts 46
sejmiks 45, 46, 67, 87, 187, 191, 197
Self-Defence (Samoobrona) 390, 394, 395, 396
Senate 45, 62, 63, 73, 80, 82, 106, 117, 118, 144, 149, 157, 168, 229, 298, 299
Senatus Consulta 157, 186, 187, 188
Serbia 400
Shah of Iran 368
Shakespeare, William 131
shipyard workers 363-4, 371
Shuisky, Dmitry 123
Shuisky, Ivan 112
Shuisky, Tsar Vasily 112, 122-3
Siberia 154, 246, 251, 285, 316
Siciński, Władysław 160
Sieniawska, Urszula 172
Sieniawska, Zofia 181, 182
Sieniawski, Adam Mikołaj 182
Sienieński, Jan 127
Sienkiewiczk, Henryk 278, 290
Sigismund, John, Elector of Brandenburg 166
Sigismund of Luxembourg 37
Sigismund Vasa, Prince of Sweden 112, 113
Sikorski, Radosław 396
Sikorski, General Władysław 289, 299, 302, 319, 324, 325
Silesia 2, 11, 16, 17, 19, 26, 28, 30, 34, 110, 113, 148, 238, 265, 293, 307, 312, 316, 357, 362
Siwiec, Ryszard 363
Skallon, Georgii 288
Skarga, Piotr 74, 75, 139
Skłodowska-Curie, Maria 280
Skrzynecki, General Jan 233, 234
Skubiszewski, Krzysztof 385, 399, 400
Sławek, Walery 301
Słowacki, Juliusz 255, 257, 352
Slavs 1, 2, 3, 8, 9, 21, 26, 42, 58, 94, 110, 251
Slenzanie 2, 5
Slovakia 1, 400
Śmigły-Rydz, Edward 301, 302
Smolensk 80, 122, 123-4
Sobieski, Jakub 131, 175-6
Sobieski, Hetman Jan 162, 163-4, 169, 171;
Sobieski, Marek 117
Sobieski family 98, 172
Social Democratic Party of the Kingdom of Poland (SDKP) 284
Social Democratic Party of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania (SDKPiL) 284
Social Democratic Party of Poland (SdRP) 386, 389
Society for National Education 286
Society for Scientific Assistance, Poznań 277
Society of Friends of Learning 206-7
Solidarity (Solidarność) xviii, 372, 373, 374, 375, 376, 377, 380, 381, 390, 391, 392, 393, 397
Somo Sierra, charge of (1808) 225
Sosnkowski, General Kazimierz 289, 325
Soviet Union: disintegration of xx, 379-84, 385-6; Nazi-Soviet partition of Poland (1939) 316-17; negotiations over Poland (1943) 325-7, 332-3; non-aggression pact with Poland (1932) 311; occupation of Poland post-1944 332-7, 338, 339, 342-53, 354-83; Polish frontier 325, 326; Politburo 372, 376-7; Stalin and
Sozzini, Fausto 64, 75, 127
Spain 113, 153, 248, 249
Spree, River 26
’Springtime of the Nations’ (1848) 237-9, 250, 276
Stadion, Count 266
Stadnicka, Maryanna 172
Stalin, Joseph 256, 274, 304, 312, 323, 324, 325, 326, 327, 330, 332, 333, 334, 335, 336, 342, 343, 354, 355, 356, 357, 378, 401, 403
Stalingrad, Battle of 325, 329, 341
Stalinogród 354
Stanisław I, King of Poland 177-8, 180, 190
Stanisław II Augustus, King of Poland 191, 198, 202, 204, 205, 206, 208-9, 211-13, 215, 216-17, 222, 224, 230
Stanisław, Bishop of Kraków 12, 27
Stanisław of Skarbimierz 86
Stargard 26
starosties 44, 46, 72-3, 90, 97, 118-19, 156
Starosty of Bełz 83, 97
Staszic, Stanisław 206-7, 217, 269
State Economic Planning Commission 348
Statute of Kalisz (1264) 17
Statute of Košice (1374) 35
Statute of Piotrków 32
Statute of Wiślica 32