«Polish question» in Russia’s public space of the nineteenth century
Journal Title: Eminak - Year 2016, Vol 3, Issue 2
Abstract
The article analyzes the Russian imperial strategy of using public space to legitimize the government’s policy at the «Polish question» during the nineteenth century. The author researched public opinion’s technologies, value-defined ideological and practical mechanisms of establishment’s interaction with the Russian public in the destruction of Polish influences at western regions of the Empire, including the Right-Bank Ukraine. The author concludes that this interaction contributed to the formation of a new national-imperial ideology, based on the recognition of the indivisibility and the historicity of the of Russian state’s borders. The government has appealing to public’s patriotic feelings in case of strengthening of Polish national cultural and social movement. The Russia’s administration applies at first time a strategy of using public communication as a means of shaping public opinion and therefore tolerance mechanism of government policy in the «Polish question». Resorting to the technology of transformation the Poles into internal enemies of the Motherland and updating the patriotic sentiments of the public, St. Petersburg formed a favorable environment for the implementation of government programs of definitive integration of the western regions into imperial space and destroy the remnants of the sovereignty of the Kingdom of Poland after suppression of Insurrection of 1863-1864. As a result of this policy social movement aimed at preserving the national and socio-cultural identity of the Poles in the Russian Empire, was outside the legal public activity that adversely affected the Polish nation-building processes of the modern era
Authors and Affiliations
Natalya Gromakova
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP228314
- DOI -
- Views 141
- Downloads 0
Alber Gaudry as a philosopher of paleontology (to anniversary of 190 years from his birth)
The article reflects the philosophical views of the prominent French geologist and paleontologist Alber Gaudry to the problems of natural sciences, in particular, on the philosophical problems of paleontology. An author...
The Bender’s mosques and churchs to the middle of the XIX cent.
The article is dedicated to mosques and Christian churches of the fortress and the city of Bendery. In them in Ottoman times there were at least 12 mosques – 9 in the fortress and 3-4 outside it. The remains of two of th...
Professor L.D. Proskuryakov’s Railway Bridges: Some Words on the Golden Treasury of the History of Science and Technology
The paper attempts to analyze some aspects of the professional activity of Professor L.D. Proskuryakov in the field of building mechanics. The author considered certain approaches to the biography of the outstanding mech...
Organizational and functional diplomatic service of Ukraine in a period of Central Rada
The article is about Ukraine’s international relations of Central Rada epoch, formation of foreign political department and its diplomatic representatives. The plans of Central Rada concerning the formation of Ukraine’s...
Preconditions of the beginning of naturalists’ societies at the universities of Ukraine in the end of 1860th
Preconditions of the beginning of naturalists’ societies at the universities of Ukraine at the end of the sixties of the 19th century are revealed in the article. Political, economic and scientific preconditions should b...