Abstract
The paper considers the Russian tzarist’s precautions against Polish January rebellion in Right-Bank Ukraine, reveals general political situation in the region, analyzes reasons of conflicts between social strata and groups.The overall political situation in the Russian Empire serves the background of the research of administrative and military bodies of Kyiv province preparations against the «antigovernment revolts». The author states that within the provincial authority bodies and institutions of higher subjectivity, the departments whose functions included investigation of social opinions and interference of external factors were formed. Besides, the effectiveness of regular army units used to combat armed revolts and their police functions as well as local citizens’ (Ukrainian peasants in particular) attitude towards the rebels, interpretation and perception of the latters’ political goals and strivings are outlined. The research reveals the reaction of the European countries to the events in the Polish Kingdom and in the west of the Russian Empire, probability of their military interference in order to limit the Russian autocracy’s repressive actions, objective and subjective reasons of the Polish patriotic rebellion defeat and its effect upon the local population.After the loss of state independence in the late 18th century, during the first half of the next century the Poles dreamt and planned its revival where the only way to reach this goal was an armed revolt. The Russian Empire as a colonizer and oppressor tried to assimilate the Poles and incorporate them into the imperial whole by destroying national specifics and identity. It defeated the first two armed revolts, in 1794 lead by T. Kostiushko and the November revolt of 1830-1831, as the Russians were more skilled in military organization. But they failed to squelch the Poles’ dream to revive their own state.In the meantime, the Empire itself was changing. After it was defeated in the Eastern (Crimean) War of 1853-1856, it started a series of reforms. One of the institutions to be totally reformed was the imperial army. The authorities rejected the former serf model and strove to make it up-to-date, i.e. quality above quantity, reformation of military schools, weapons updating and a totally new principle of territory dislocation – by military districts, what enabled the coalescence of administrative and military powers.In early 60-ies of the 19th cent. these two factors fell into historic opposition.The problem field of the events of 1863-1864 in Right Bank Ukraine goes on attracting scholarly attention. Contemporary Ukrainian researchers use archive materials to thoroughly study various aspects of Polish liberation movement and its influence upon social life of the region. Scientific conferences, seminars, discussions of the analyzed issues are held. Among those discussed, military factor has been one of the hotly debated.The January Revolt happened to be the final stage of the armed struggle of the Poles for state independence in the 19th cent., which served a sphere of sufficient historic research and the events analysis from the political, social and military point of view. Vast source investigation and dozens of publications reflect the results of study in more than a hundred years.
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