‘Russian Barbarism’ in the Propaganda of the Polish January Uprising (1863–1864)
2013; Polska Akademia Nauk; Volume: 107; Linguagem: Inglês
10.12775/aph.2013.107.05
ISSN2450-8462
Autores Tópico(s)Historical and Cultural Studies of Poland
ResumoHenryk Wereszycki (Warsaw, 1960) provides a valuable complementary resource.Amongst the document collections supporting the diplomatic as well as propaganda action, the following come to the fore: Code rouge: ordonnances et circulaires des generaux Mourawieff, Dlotowskoi, Annenkoff, Lowchine etc (Paris, 1863); and, Władysław Czartoryski, Affaires de Pologne: Exposé de la situation suivi de documents et pièces justifi catives.Communiqué aux members du Sénat et du Corps Legislatif (Paris, 1863) (also published in English).The Western reader encountered broader campaigning, as a rule, through press agencies and established journals and magazines, as the idea to set up an owned press organ in the West was quit.In light of this practice, the Éphémérides polonaises, edited by Leon Kapliński, a bulletin of uprising incidents and a source of the material made use of by the Printing Dept. in other works, appears as a unique phenomenon; see Éphémérides polonaises (Paris, 1863-4).The bulletin's fi rst two volumes (Février et Mars [hereafter: EP, 1], Avril, Mai et Juin [hereafter: EP, 2]) were issued in 1863, the third (Juillet, Août et Septembre [hereafter: EP, 3]) in 1864.Amongst the most important journalistic actions calling for being taken into account in a discussion on the accusations of Russian 'barbarism', the pamphlet by H. Forbes, Poland and the interests and duties of western civilization (London, 1863), inspired by Prince Czartoryski, ought to be mentioned.As for the propaganda-related importance of the Cracow's Czas, let us remark that the daily's content was translated in Paris into French and forwarded to French ministers and dignitaries.3 I accordingly leave aside herein the uprising's internal propaganda; cf.
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