Collection:
Mokslo publikacijos / Scientific publications
Document Type:
Knygos / Books
Language:
Anglų kalba / English
Title:
A Disastrous matter: the Polish question in the Russian political thought and discourse of the great reform age 1856-1866
Publication Data:
Kraków : Jagiellonian University Press, 2017.
Series:
Jagiellonian Studies in History; vol. 6
Contents:
List of important abbreviations — The following abbreviationshave been used for archival references — Introduction — Chapter I: The Polish Question in the debate on the modernisationof Russia in the Great Reform Period, 1856-1861. 1) Russia gathers up its strength in the thaw after Sebastopol. The political and ideological geography of Russia ; 2) Poland in the opinion of the ruling class of the Russian Empire ; 3) The Polish example in the debate on the modernisation of Russia ; 4) Russian liberal concepts of Polish-Russian co-operation (before 1861) ; 5) A different Russia: The concept of an anti-tsarist alliance ; 6) Poland in the opinions of the Slavophilesand Pan-Slavists. A) "Long live all the nations!: ; B) Between historiosophy and the policy of Pan-Slavism — Chapter II: An attempted policy of "reconciliation", 1861-1863. 1) The Polish problem and the question of a Russian constitution. A) The discussion in the Russian elite on the Polish Developments ; B) The reversal in the social mood, 1862. 2) The Slavophile programme on the Polish Question. A) From Slavophile ideology to policy ; B) The lure of Pan-Slavism and an experiment to effect a "policy of reconciliation" with the Poles ; C) The "dangerous party of legal reform". 3) The Lithuanian and Ruthenian Territories in the disputeon the solution to the Polish Question. A) The Seized Territories in the Polish and Russian political thoughtto the mid-nineteenth century ; B) The dispute over the Lithuanian and Ruthenian Territoriesin Slavophile journalism ; C) An Empire of Many Nations? The Seized Territories in the lightof concepts of autonomy and Russia's federalisation ; D) Plans for an ethnic policy of Divide e Impera on the Empire's western peripheries —Chapter III: 1863 in the official propaganda. 1) Evolution of attitudes in Russian society. A) A reversal in public opinion ; B) Causes of the change in the mood of Russian public opinion ; C) Constitutional illusions. 2) "What to do about Poland?" The Polish Questionin Mikhail Katkov's ideology of conservative nationalism ; A) Fighting the Polish conspiracy ; B) Conservatism and nationalism. 3) "The Poles are setting Russia on fire..." The official Russian propaganda on the January Uprising. A) Propaganda: "The Most Powerful Tool of Our Times" ; B) The Russian Truth and the Polish Grievance: Propaganda addressed to the common people ; C) How the foreign propaganda worked — Chapter IV: Concepts of a final solution to the Polish Question, 1863-1866. 1) Russian liberalism and its attitude to the Polish Question,1863-1866. A) Liberal attitudes after 1863: in defence of the State ; B) Liberal attitudes after 1863: in defence of the agenda of reconciliation. 2) Plans to "Re-Slavicise" Poland. A) The "War on the West' and against "the Judas of Slavdom". The Polish-Russian conflict as a clash of civilisations ; B) How to "slavicise" Poland ; C) What the Russians are fighting for against the Poles. The Slavophile principles behind the Constituent Committees agenda ; D) The Okrainy (Borderlands) of Russia. Drafts for a new imperial policyon nationalities ; E) "The Decomposition of Slavophilism". The dispute over the Polish policy. 3) The crusade against "Polonism". The Constituent Committeeand its activities. A) The Tsar s commissars at work: the Russian "Peasants' Empire" and a People's Poland ; B) A Russian Kulturkampf — Epilogue — Selected Bibliography — Index of Persons.
Summary / Abstract:
ENIn the 19th century the "Polish Question" - the attempts made by the people of Poland to recover their country's political independence and restore its statehood, and above all the effect of the Polish independence movement on international relations - was one of the fundamental problems destabilising the political order in East-Central Europe, especially on the western peripheries of the Russian Empire. 1 However, seldom have these issues been examined from the point of view of 19th-century Russians. This book sets out to present the Polish-Russian conflict the way the elite of Russian society saw it, in the "Russia that started at the bottom rung of the ladder for social climbers", as Alexander Herzen put it sarcastically.2 One of the chief research topics in this book is the interaction between Russian public opinion, or rather the germs of Russian public opinion, and the policy the Empire pursued on its uncompliant subjects, and the impact the Polish conflict had on the evolution of Russian political ideas and movements. [...].
DOI:
10.4467/K9525.23/e/16.16.4764
ISBN:
9788323341710; 9788323395256 (el.versija)
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2026-02-25 13:39:12
