Galician Peasant Uprising of 1846

The Galician Peasant Uprising of 1846, also known as the Galician Rabacja,^[1] Galician Slaughter,^[2] or the Szela uprising^[3] (German: Galizischer Bauernaufstand; Polish: Rzeź galicyjska or Rabacja galicyjska), was a two-month uprising of impoverished Austrian Galician^[a] peasants that led to the suppression of the szlachta uprising (Kraków Uprising) and the massacre of szlachta in Galicia, in the Austrian Partition zone, in early 1846. The uprising, which lasted from February to March, primarily affected the lands around the town of Tarnów.^[4]

A revolt against serfdom, it was directed against manorial property and oppression (such as the manorial prisons).^[5] Galician peasants killed about 1,000 nobles and destroyed about 500 manors.^[4]^[6] The Austrian government used the uprising to decimate Polish nobles, who were organising an uprising against Austria.^[4]

^ Agnieszka Barbara Nance (2008). Literary and Cultural Images of a Nation Without a State: The Case of Nineteenth-Century Poland. Peter Lang. pp. 62–64. ISBN 978-0-8204-7866-1.
^ Maciej Janowski (2004). Polish Liberal Thought Before 1918. Central European University Press. p. 99. ISBN 978-963-9241-18-3.
^ Olga A. Narkiewicz (1976). The Green Flag: Polish Populist Politics, 1867–1970. Croom Helm. pp. 18–19. ISBN 978-0-87471-824-9.
^ ^a ^b ^c (in Polish) rabacja galicyjska Archived 7 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine in Internetowa encyklopedia PWN
^ Robert Bideleux; Ian Jeffries (2007). A History of Eastern Europe: Crisis and Change. Routledge. pp. 295–296. ISBN 978-0-203-01889-7.
^ Iván T. Berend (2003). History Derailed: Central and Eastern Europe in the Long Nineteenth Century. University of California Press. p. 212. ISBN 978-0-520-23299-0.

[Nance2008-1] Agnieszka Barbara Nance (2008). Literary and Cultural Images of a Nation Without a State: The Case of Nineteenth-Century Poland. Peter Lang. pp. 62–64. ISBN 978-0-8204-7866-1.

[Janowski2004-2] Maciej Janowski (2004). Polish Liberal Thought Before 1918. Central European University Press. p. 99. ISBN 978-963-9241-18-3.

[Narkiewicz-3] Olga A. Narkiewicz (1976). The Green Flag: Polish Populist Politics, 1867–1970. Croom Helm. pp. 18–19. ISBN 978-0-87471-824-9.

[pwn-4] (in Polish) rabacja galicyjska Archived 7 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine in Internetowa encyklopedia PWN

[bidjef-5] Robert Bideleux; Ian Jeffries (2007). A History of Eastern Europe: Crisis and Change. Routledge. pp. 295–296. ISBN 978-0-203-01889-7.

[6] Iván T. Berend (2003). History Derailed: Central and Eastern Europe in the Long Nineteenth Century. University of California Press. p. 212. ISBN 978-0-520-23299-0.

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