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The Noble, the Serf and the Revizor - The Polish Nobility Between Tsarist Imperialism and the Ukrainian Masses (1831-1836) (Hardcover)
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The Noble, the Serf and the Revizor - The Polish Nobility Between Tsarist Imperialism and the Ukrainian Masses (1831-1836) (Hardcover)
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First published in 1991, The Noble, the Serf and the Revizor is a
historical and sociological study of the Polish nobility of the
Western Ukraine between the two great uprisings that shook Poland
in the 19th century is based almost entirely on original,
unpublished documents. Daniel Beauvois throws an entirely new light
on the Polish nobility of the Ukraine, on its development and
particular mentality. Furthermore, his research reveals mechanisms
of domination and assimilation, which the Czarist bureaucracy can
be said to have pioneered long before the Soviet empire. During
this period, the Russian revizor, a key figure in the social drama
described in these pages, ruthlessly lowered the status of the
majority of the Polish nobles in the Ukraine. Thereafter, their
fate was defined by two basic realities: poverty and the decline of
their national identity and social status. Only a small minority of
rich landowners survived. The price they paid was total political
subservience, a subservience which gave rise to an increasingly
conservative mentality and the loss of all real contact with the
Polish national movement. This book will be of interest to students
of history, political science, sociology and international
relations.
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