Subtitle:

Metody i środki oddziaływania imperiów : ideologia i praktyka polityczna państwa rosyjskiego/sowieckiego/rosyjskiego w latach 1689-2022 ; Means and ways of empires : ideologies and political practices of the Russian/Soviet/Russian states between 1689 and 2022 ; Polityka rosyjska na dawnych terenach Rzeczypospolitej Obojga Narodów – aspekt porównawczy ; Russian Policy in the Former Territories of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth: a Comparative Aspect

Institutional creator:

Polska Akademia Nauk, Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla

Publisher:

Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla Polskiej Akademii Nauk

Place of publishing:

Warszawa

Description:

p. 97-211 ; Funded by a grant from the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Poland ; Abstracts in Polish and English.

Abstract:

During the reign of Alexander III (1881–1894), particularly aggressive projects were set up to build new “Russian spaces” and a “Russian world” (ruskiy mir) within the borders of the Russian Empire, at the expense of national minorities. These projects went far beyond the policy of Russification, as they assumed the introduction of legal discrimination, group exclusion, social isolation, mass displacements and forced migrations. This issue was analysed on the example of three selected mass resettlement projects set up against Poles, Germans, and Jews, which were developed in the 1880s by governorsgeneral residing in Warsaw, Vilnius and Kiev. The construction of the “Russian world” was carried out through social engineering, usually involving the destruction of the old and creating new religious, national and cultural structures. Most of these projects took place in the Polish territories, which meant that the Empireʼs western borders were subjected to the most significant social, political and cultural deconstruction in territorial, demographic and economic terms. The concepts of Drang nach Osten and Kulturträger, already known in the mid-19th century, can therefore also be attributed to the Russian version of “pushing towards the West” and “bringing Russian civilisation”.

Relation:

Historia Rosyjskiego Imperializmu

Start page:

190

End page:

211

Detailed Resource Type:

Chapter

Resource Identifier:

oai:rcin.org.pl:242534 ; 978-83-66911-81-9

Source:

IH PAN, call no. II.16454 ; IH PAN, call no. II.16453 Podr. ; click here to follow the link

Language:

pol

Language of abstract:

pol ; eng

Rights:

Creative Commons Attribution BY-ND 4.0 license

Terms of use:

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Digitizing institution:

Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Original in:

Library of the Institute of History PAS

Projects co-financed by:

Ministry of Education and Science

Access:

Open