title: Newspaper Controversy about the Institution of the Governorates General in the Western Russian Periphery
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metadata.value: Kotov, Aleksandr E.
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metadata.value: 2024-02-02T13:43:07Z
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metadata.value: 2024-02-02T13:43:07Z
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metadata.value: 2023-12
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metadata.value: Kotov A. E. Newspaper Controversy about the Institution of the Governorates General in the Western Russian Periphery. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2023, vol. 68, issue 4, pp. 858–874. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu02.2023.403
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu02.2023.403
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/44777
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metadata.value: Several significant events simultaneously took place in 1888: the celebration of the 900th anniversary
  of the baptism of Rus’, the disaster in Borki and subsequent transformations in the
  railway business, the beginning of discussions about the project of land captains (head of
  zemstvo), the accession to the throne of Wilhelm II. In the history of Russian social thought, or
  rather, in the history of the conservative “camp”, this first years after the death of M. N. Katkov
  and I. S. Aksakov became a year of decisive crisis. The so-called “Russian conservatism” had
  never been a single entity. Ever since the 1860s, two different types of conservatism opposed
  each other aristocratic and national. One of the most important subjects of constant discussions
  between these camps was the Polish question, which encompassed not only national,
  but also social problems. It remained relevant in the late 1880s, when the nationalist camp
  was represented by the epigones of M. N. Katkov and by A. S. Suvorin. V. P. Meshcherskii and
  K. N. Leontiev stood out among the class conservatives. Both ideological and literary trends
  were inspired by influential dignitaries: on the one hand, by K. P. Pobedonostsev, on the other,
  by T. I. Filippov. The most striking episode of this ideological struggle was the controversy
  around the Kiev celebrations dedicated to the 900th anniversary of the baptism of Rus’. The
  unexpected death at these celebrations of the Kiev Governor-General A. R. Drentel’n exacerbated
  the debate about the need to maintain the governor-general in the North-Western
  and South-Western regions. This institution at the time was regarded as emergency, and the
  controversy about it became at the same time a controversy about the extent to which the Polish
  question was resolved in these regions. In the ensuing discussion, the nationalist publications
  “Novoye Vremya” and “Kievlianin” supported the preservation of the governorates. The
  cohort of opponents of the governorates included the conservative “Grazhdanin”, the liberal
  “Novosti”, and the Polish newspaper “Kraj”, which was published in St. Petersburg. A peculiar
  position was taken by the liberal “Kievskoe slovo”.
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metadata.value: This research was supported by the grant of the Russian Science Foundation no. 19-18-00073-P “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”.
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metadata.value: ru
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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 68; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: conservatism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: nationalism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: journalism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Suvorin
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Meshcherskii
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Pobedonostsev
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Leontiev
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Kiev Governorate General
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Ukraine
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Belarus
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Newspaper Controversy about the Institution of the Governorates General in the Western Russian Periphery
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