Russische Staatsgewalt und polnischer Adel

This study of the relationship between the Russian Empire and the Polish-speaking nobility (szlachta) of the eastern half of the former Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth is another example of the important work done over the last three decades by German scholars on the history of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Russia and Poland. Jörg Ganzenmüller takes issue with much of the earlier ‘teleological’ writing on the subject which emphasised national conflict in the relationship between the Russian Empire and the Polish nobility, and his monograph fits in well with the recent, more nuanced, approach of scholars in Germany, Russia and Poland to the study of tsarist Russia’s dealings with its heterogeneous peripheries. The book is divided into three overlapping parts: the first examines how far the Polish nobility was integrated into Russia’s autocratic order; the second deals with the transformation of Polish dietines into noble assemblies on the Russian model; and the third assesses to what extent imperial authority was exercised in practice in the newly acquired provinces

Ancient history · Archaeology · Autocracy · Commonwealth · Democracy · Economic history · Empire · German · Nobility · Political science · Politics · Russian history · Serfdom · European history and politics · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics · History · Law · Polish Historical and Cultural Studies