Military-Police Department of the Provincial Government of Lublin in the years 1867–1915: Organization and personnel placement Cover Image

Wydział Wojskowo-Policyjny Rządu Gubernialnego Lubelskiego w latach 1867–1915. Organizacja i obsada personalna
Military-Police Department of the Provincial Government of Lublin in the years 1867–1915: Organization and personnel placement

Author(s): Grzegorz Smyk
Subject(s): Public Administration, Military history, 19th Century, Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919)
Published by: Oficyna Wydawnicza KA AFM
Keywords: administration; Polish Kingdom; Russian Empire; Military-Police Department of the Provincial Government of Lublin;

Summary/Abstract: Following the unification reforms carried on by the tsar’s authorities in the Polish Kingdom after the January Uprising, the field administration was subject to reorganization. By the ukase of 19/31 December 1866 the new, modelled on the Russian one, act on the provincial and district administration was introduced. It abolished the current territorial division of the country as well as it changed the organization of civil intermediate authorities, adjusting them to the model of field administration in the Empire. The study presents, in the context of the general principles of the system of provincial management in the Kingdom of Poland, the evolution of powers, the transformation of its internal organisation and the characteristics of the personnel of the Military-Police Department of the Provincial Government of Lublin from its establishment in 1867 to the evacuation to Moscow in August 1915. The Lublin Province has been chosen as the subject of research because it was the second largest in the Kingdom of Poland, after the Warsaw Province, both in terms of territory and population. In relation to other provinces, the personnel of its offices was subject to increased Russification. It was particularly vivid here that the Russian authorities strived to quickly and fully replace Polish officials by Russians, loyal to the Tsar.The source material for the study includes primarily archival sources preserved in the fonds of the Provincial Government of Lublin stored in the State Archives in Lublin and relevant legal acts and literature on the subject. The main source of information about officials holding the posts of councillors and clerks in the Legal Department of the Provincial Government of Lublin was their personnel files (in Russian: “formularnye spiski”). A total of 80–90% of the documents of the fonds of the Provincial Government of Lublin preserved, which has made it possible to describe the characteristics of officials employed in the Legal Department of the Provincial Government of Lublin who held the positions of councillors and clerks: their nationality (religion) characteristics, social background, education and career history.Due to political reasons Poles were the first to be withdrawn from exercising management positions. The situation was different regarding executive positions i.e. officials, bookkeepers, journalists and their helpers. Poles retained them up until the beginning of the eighties. It was only in the next decades that their number started to decrease rapidly, so that in the second decade of the XX century they were with no exception replaced by the Russian officials.

  • Issue Year: XXII/2019
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 141-165
  • Page Count: 26
  • Language: Polish