After crushing the Polish Uprising in 1863–1864, Russia established a new system of administration and control. Imperial Russian Rule in the Kingdom of Poland, 1864–1915 investigates in detail the imperial bureaucracy’s highly variable relationship with Polish society over the next half century. It portrays the personnel and policies of Russian domination and describes the numerous layers of conflict and cooperation between the Tsarist officialdom and the local population. Presenting case studies of both modes of conflict and cooperation, Malte Rolf replaces the old, unambiguous “freedom-loving Poles vs. oppressive Russians” narrative with a more nuanced account and does justice to the complexity and diversity of encounters among Poles, Jews, and Russians in this contested geopolitical space. At the same time, he highlights the process of “provincializing the center,” the process by which the erosion of imperial rule in the Polish Kingdom facilitated the demise of the Romanov dynasty itself.
Author(s): Malte Rolf
Series: Russian and East European Studies
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Year: 2021
Language: English
Pages: 350
City: Pittsburgh
Contents
Acknowledgments
Remarks on Transcription, Transliteration, and Quotations
Note on Calendar
Introduction. The Kingdom of Poland and Petersburg Rule
Part I. Russian Imperial Rule and the Kingdom of Poland: Conditions, Roles, and Relationships
1. The Tsar and Partitioned Poland (1772–1863)
2. Becoming the Vistula Land: Russian Rule from 1864 to 1915
3. The Viceroy and Governors-General (1864–1915)
4. Serving the Tsar at the Empire’s Fringes
5. The Power of Censorship: Tsarist Cultural Communication
6. Religion and Politics
Part II. Warsaw and the Empire
7. Modernizing Warsaw without Self-Governance (1880–1915)
8. Modern Warsaw: A Divided Community
Part III. Multiple Faces of an Imperial Society
9. Russian Warsaw
Part IV. The Empire’s Crisis in Poland
10. Revolution (1905–1907)
11. Regaining Stability (1907–1914)
Part V. Closing Remarks on the Kingdom of Poland and the Russian Empire
12. The Vistula Land under Imperial Rule
13. The Vistula Land: A Kingdom within an Empire
Glossary of Names
Notes
Bibliography
Index
