The world of provincial bureaucracy in late 19th and 20th century Russian Poland
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The world of provincial bureaucracy in late 19th and 20th century Russian Poland
（Studies in Russian history, v. 10）
Edwin Mellen Press, c2004
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-189) and index
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This book is a case study that investigates the social origins, the confessional and ethnic backgrounds, and the culture of work and leisure that constituted the lives of the provincial officials of Russian Poland from the 1870s through the 1900s. Preface By Dr. Robert E. Blobaum (University of West Virginia) In her new monograph, Katya Vladimirov gives us a rare, revealing and detailed glimpse into the world of the provincial bureaucracy in the western most corner of the Russian Empire, the Congress Kingdom of Poland. Vladimirov locates her study of the provincial bureaucracy in a relatively tranquil time in Russian Poland, following the January Insurrection of 1863 but before the Revolution of 1905, a period that offers both a fair consistency of demographic data about its members and a continuity of both personnel and attitudes for analysis. While most historians have portrayed the Russian imperial bureaucracy in Poland according to unchallenged stereotypes, which do more to support a mythical national Polish narrative than historical scholarship, Vladimirov sees its members in terms of their actual individual and corporate identities, interests, aspirations, and prejudices.
And while her findings in the end may not be any more flattering to that bureaucracy, they are nonetheless far more intriguing in their very nuance and significance. Vladimirov's work is in part a quantitative social history, in part a cultural history of the provincial bureaucracy in late nineteenth-century Russian Poland. Based on an in-depth analysis of the Pamiatnye Knizhki (registers of the bureaucracy) for each of the ten provinces of Russian Poland as well as other primary sources, Vladimirov is able to retrieve and quantify valuable demographic and service information from the personnel files of approximately three thousand state officials. From this data, she draws two particularly important and interrelated conclusions. First, the absolute number of bureaucratic officials and the resources available to them remained stagnant over these decades, a time in which the Polish kingdom experienced both a veritable explosion of population and fundamental demographic transformation, placing escalating strains on an unchanging provincial administration.
As officials lived longer, vacancies were accordingly fewer and promotions and salary increases became increasingly difficult to obtain, thus frustrating the expectations of younger and better-educated bureaucrats who managed to enter the system. Moreover, Vladimirov shows that the majority of officials serving in Poland, especially in the middle and lower ranks were Roman Catholics and ethnic Poles drawn primarily from the educated classes, a discovery that forces us to rethink not only the notion of "Russian" bureaucratic rule, but also the nature of eventual "Polish" opposition to that rule led by a job-hungry intelligentsia in the first years of the twentieth century. In the second part of her monograph, Vladimirov shifts her focus to a provincial bureaucratic culture, which we now understand as Polish-influenced. Of course, bureaucratic positions came with their perks, which partially compensated for the ever slowing rate of promotion and salary increases - subsidies for housing, education of offspring, vacations and leisure activities, and health care, not to mention ever-present opportunities for corruption.
Equally important was the sense of privileged corporate identity reinforced by uniforms, decorations, rituals, titles, and shared participation in official holidays, anniversaries and ceremonies. And, as Vladimirov argues, it was the bureaucracy's corporate identity, rather than the religious and ethnic identities of its individual members, that shaped its mainly negative and stereotypical perceptions of the diverse population over which it ruled. In the end, Vladimirov sees a great deal of continuity in her analysis of the Russian imperial bureaucracy and its personnel, not only during the decades under examination, but from one regime to another. Although such a perspective extends beyond the scope of her study, Vladimirov effectively argues that what often passes as the public interest supposedly served by modern bureaucracies is in reality an imperfect marriage of personal and corporate interests. Sustained by defining and then monopolizing certain forms of expertise, bureaucracy thus makes possible its own regeneration, at most discarding one uniform for another, while continuing to serve itself.
目次
- List of Charts and Tables iii
- Acknowledgements iv
- Preface by Robert E. Blobaum vi
- Introduction 1
- Part I. The Flea Market and The Flea Circus 15
- Chapter 1. The Structure of the Provincial Bureaucracy and the Rank and File System 17
- Ranks 20
- Office positions and Mobility 26
- Chin 30
- Chapter 2. Education, Religion and Nationality As Factors in Recruitment and Advancement Education 35
- Career Opportunities 44
- "Piatyi punkt": Religious affiliation and nationality 46
- Chapter 3. Tuz, Korol', Valet: Bureaucratic Elites 57
- The "Top Ranks" 58
- Professionals 69
- Part II. Circles of Life and Death 77
- Chapter 4. Symbols and Rituals 79
- Uniforms and Decorations 80
- Ceremonies 86
- Chapter 5. The Bureaucratic Dolce Vita 95
- Salary 96
- Family 99
- Housing 103
- Leisure 105
- Chapter 6. Shamans of Knowledge 113
- Conclusion 129
- Selected Bibliography 159
- Index 178
- List of Charts and Tables: Chapter 1. Chart 1. Place of Service 19
- Chart 2. Rank Distribution 21
- Chart 3. The Officials of rank 8 23
- Chart 4. Age in Rank 10 25
- Chart 5. Officials according to Age 25
- Chart 6. Titles in Ranks 32
- Table 1. Titles and Ranks 31
- Chapter 2. Chart 1. Educational Status 36
- Chart 2. Officials with Military Education 38
- Chart 3. Officials without Formal Education 42
- Chart 4. Religion and Education 45
- Chart 5. Religious Affiliation and Places of Service 50
- Chart 6. Religious Affiliation in Rank 8 51
- Chart 7. Places of Service and Ranks 53
- Chart 8. Age Groups 55
- Table 1. Education, Rank and Age 44
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