title: The Beginning of Congress Poland in the Discourse of the French Press
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metadata.value: Belousov, Mikhail S.
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metadata.value: Belousov, Alexander S.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2020-01-17T11:50:08Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2020-01-17T11:50:08Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2019-12
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metadata.value: Belousov M. S., Belousov A. S. The Beginning of Congress Poland in the Discourse of the French Press. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2019, vol. 64, iss. 4, pp. 1195–1212.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu02.2019.402
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/16919
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The article focuses on the formation of the Polish-Lithuanian discourse by the French press
  and its interpretation by Russian intellectuals in 1815–1825. The image of Alexander I and his
  policy towards Congress Poland obviously underwent a complex transformation. French publicists
  rejoiced at the decisions of the Congress of Vienna and the declaration of constitution
  on the affiliated territories. The press articulated a liberator-tsar discourse: Alexander did not
  defeat Napoleon to become a new Napoleon himself. He only cared about the well-being of his
  new subjects: due to the Russian Emperor the Poles received long-awaited freedom embodied
  in the constitution. The French press featured Alexander I not only as a liberator-tsar, but as a
  ruler guided by a national idea about national interests. Praising its new idol the French press
  managed to convince Russian and Polish public of their protagonist’s polonophilia. This gave
  rise to debates among the intellectuals, who mostly thought negatively of Alexander’s intentions.
  Concerns intensified after his famous Warsaw Speech. However, in 1820, the Emperor’s
  interest in the Polish-Lithuanian affairs subsided, with the policy towards them becoming
  more conservative. Eventually, French newspapers reverted to the discourse of an uncivilized
  eastern neighbor. Thus, the image of a liberator-tsar gave way to that of a cruel despot and
  usurper eager to subdue European territories. The rhetoric of liberal publicists found some
  support in the Russian society, but mostly it contributed to the growth of Anti-Polish sentiments.
  The same dialectic unity and clash of opinions, articulated both due to the French
  Journalism and contrary to it, is found in the Decembrist milieu.
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metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: This research was supported by the grant No. 19-18-00073 “National Identity in the Imperial Politics of
  Memory: History of The Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Polish-Lithuanian State in Historiography and
  Social Thought of the 19th–20th Centuries” of the Russian Science Foundation.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 64; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Alexander I
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Congress Poland
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: constitution
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: French press
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Decembrists
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The Beginning of Congress Poland in the Discourse of the French Press
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metadata.value: Article
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