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Part III Pre-reform Russia (4)
6. Nationalities
A. Themes
1. Age of nationalism & revolution
2. Ethnicity and religion intertwined
3. Territorial expansion, growing menace
4. Regime hypersensitivity
5. Mixed policy: targeted intervention
Russian Territorial Expansion, 1801-15
B. Congress Poland
1. Kingdom of Poland: creation and expectations
2. Constitution of 1815
3. Problems
4. 1830-31 Rebellion
5. Repression
Polish Uprising 1830-1
Warsaw: Seizing the Arsenal
Warsaw: Crowds Overrun the Prison (1830)
Battle of Grochow 5 February 1831
C. Ukraine
1. Eighteenth-century background
2. Religious question
3. Ukrainian nationalism
Taras Shevchenko, “Tale of the Gypsy” (1841)
Taras Shevchenko: Self-Portrait as Soldier (1847)
Taras Shevchenko, “Self-Portrait”1861
1911 Shevchenko Postcard: “Don’t Forget our Country, Ukraine!”
D. Jews
1. Eighteenth-century background
2. Pale of Settlement
3. Nikolaevan: integration
Pale of Settlement
Popular Print of Jewish SederMid-19th Century
Jewish Travel Permit (1850)
E. Baltics
1. Eighteenth-century background
2. Serf emancipation in the Baltics, 1816-19
3. Conversion crisis of 1840s
F. Finland
1. 18th Century Background
2. Annexation and autonomy
3. Rise of Finnish nationalism
Alexander I at the Diet of Porvoo (1809)
Alexander I: Pledge on Finnish Autonomy (in Finnish) 1809
Lonnrot: Finnish National Leader
Snellman: Finnish National Leader
H. Caucasus
1. 18th Century Background
2. Georgia: Administrative russification
3. Pacification and resistance
Russian-Georgian Military Road
General Aleksei Petrovich Ermolov
Military Conflict in the Caucasus
Imam ShamilCaucasus Rebel Leader
Capture of Shamil (1859)
Medal for Victory in Caucasus and Daghestan (1859)
I. Central Asia
1. Eighteenth-century background
2. Regional turmoil
Russia and Central Asia
Model for Mosque construction1844
J. Conclusions
1. Perils of expansion: new territories but also new ethnic, religious groups
2. Multinational: Growing complexity and danger of nationality question
3. Multiconfessional: role of religion
4. Regime: supra-cultural, but administratively invasive