Explain any three ways in which nationalist feelings were kept alive in Poland in the 18th
and 19th Centuries.
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- POLAND had been partitioned at the end of the eighteenth century by the Great Powers - Russia, Prussia and Austria.
- Though, Poland no longer existed as an independent territory. National feelings were kept alive through music and language.
- Karol Kurpinski celebrated the national struggle through his operas and music, turning folk dance like the Polonaise and Mazurka into nationalist symbols.
- After Russian occupation, the Polish language was forced out Of schools but many members of clergy in Poland began to use language as a weapon of national resistance.
- Polish was used for church gatherings and all religious instructions. As a result, a large number of priests and bishops were put into jail by the Russian authorities.
- The use of Polish came to be seen as a symbol of the struggle against Russian dominance.
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