Title:

Is Every Pole a Catholic? – the Borderland Quandaries of Nationality and Religion Faced by Russian Bureaucracy in a 1910 Ministry of Internal Affairs Document

Subtitle:

Studia z Dziejów Rosji i Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej Vol. 52 no 2 (2017), Special Issue, Materials

Creator:

Jurkowski, Roman Stanisław (1956– )

Contributor:

Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Publisher:

Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Place of publishing:

Warsaw

Date issued/created:

2017

Description:

p. 205-220 ; Summary in English and Russian. ; Includes : source appendix ; Continues: Studia z Dziejów ZSRR i Europy Środkowej

Type of object:

Journal/Article

Subject and Keywords:

Russia - politics and governments - 1904-1914 ; Western zemstva ; Russia. Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia ; definition of nationality ; Russian policy of discrimination

Abstract:

During the long process of introduction of zemstva (organs of local government) to the Western guberniyas of Russia (began in 1906), there was once again the problem of domination of Polish landlords within the social structures as well as political and economic life of Belarusian and Ukrainian guberniyas. The tsarist authorities, who sought to ensure the dominance of a few Russian landowners in the electoral laws to zemstva, had to set up such an electoral system that would make it possible to reduce in zemstwa the number of Polish nobility. To do so, it was necessary to determine with precision who, according to laws, was “a person of Polish origin”. Prime Minister Pyotr Stolypin, preparing the introduction of national curias for the elections to Western zemstva, ordered an official of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to work out a memorial describing all the methods used after the fall of the January Uprising to distinguish Polish landowners from all the members of this class. The memorial by Alexandr Strolman, presented here in its original form and in translation to the Polish language, is a historic review of all actions taken both by local and central authorities to establish basic criteria necessary to determine and distinguish all Polish landowner from among all the landowners in Western guberniyas of Russia.

References:

Bazylow L., Ostatnie lata Rosji carskiej. Rządy Stołypina, Warszawa, 1972.
Wieczorkiewicz P., “Stołypin, Polacy i ziemstwa zachodnie”, in: Słowiańszczyzna i dzieje powszechne. Studia ofiarowane Profesorowi Ludwikowi Bazylowowi w siedemdziesiątą rocznicę Jego urodzin, eds. L. Jaśkiewicz et al., Warszawa, 1985, pp. 125–153.
Базина Н.Г., “Возникновение национально-политической части Департамента общих дел Министерства внутренних дел”, Известия Российского государственного педагогического университета им. А. И. Герцена, 2006, no. 22, vol. 4, pp. 17–23.

Relation:

Studia z Dziejów Rosji i Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej

Volume:

52

Issue:

2, Special Issue

Start page:

205

End page:

220

Resource type:

Text

Detailed Resource Type:

Article : others citable

Format:

application/pdf

Resource Identifier:

2353-6403 ; 10.12775/SDR.2017.EN2.07

Source:

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Language:

eng

Language of abstract:

eng ; rus

Rights:

Creative Commons Attribution BY-ND 4.0 license

Terms of use:

Copyright-protected material. [CC BY-ND 4.0] May be used within the scope specified in Creative Commons Attribution BY-ND 4.0 license, full text available at: ; -

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 Science and Higher Education ; Activities popularizing science (DUN)

Access:

Open