Flagrante bello. Wielka wojna wschodnia w relacjach prasy warszawskiej (1787–1792)
Flagrante bello. Russo-Turkish War in Warsaw Press (1787–1792)

Author(s): Małgorzata Karkocha
Subject(s): History, Social Sciences, Media studies, Military history
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: Russo-Turkish War 1787-1792;Russo-Austrian War 1788-1791;Warsaw press;Russia;Austria, Turkey
Summary/Abstract: The publication presents the image of the Russo-Turkish war of 1787–1792 in the Polish-language Warsaw press of the same period. It is the first monographic study of this issue in Poland. The author's aim was to show what the reader, who lived at the end of the reign of Stanisław August Poniatowski, could learn about the course of this war from Warsaw periodicals. These were mainly "Gazeta Warszawska", "Pamiętnik Historyczno-Polityczny" and "Gazeta Narodowa i Obca". From the outbreak of the war, the editors of Warsaw newspapers followed the actions of both sides of the conflict with great interest. Systematically and almost on an ongoing basis, they informed not only about the course of hostilities, but also about diplomatic initiatives or other war-related events taking place in Istanbul, St. Petersburg and Vienna. Thus, the reader of the Warsaw press received fairly complete and, which is more important, reliable information on the course of this armed conflict.Although the range of issues raised by the publishers was extremely wide, not all problems were of equal interest to them. Undoubtedly, the best documented in the pages of the Warsaw press were issues of a military nature. Thus, the newspapers printed in the capital of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth informed in detail about the course of actions taken by hostile armies. They described not only the most important land and sea battles, but also minor skirmishes. They informed about the movements and condition of the enemy armies, printed numerical strenght of the troops and biographical information about the commanders. They also reported on the efforts of European courts to restore peace and on the progress of peace talks. Finally, they were publishing texts of international treaties, manifestos of imperial courts and rescripts of rulers. This diverse and in fact rich material was enough to correctly orient the Polish reader about the events taking place in the Turkish theater of military operations.The book was written in a problem-chronological order. It consists of an introduction, five substantive chapters and the ending. In individual chapters, press reports from the following years of the war was discussed. The work was supplemented with an attachment bibliography, annexes, indexes (persons and geographic) and rich illustrative material.

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