The November Uprising of 1830

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The November Uprising was one of the most consequential events in modern Polish history. Its failure made sure that the Russian Empire abolished all forms of political autonomy that Poland had enjoyed after the end of the Napoleonic Wars. This video will give a detailed explanation to the circumstances that led to the Russo-Polish War and shows what the short and long term consequences looked like.
Sources:
- Davies, Norman: God’s Playground. A History of Poland, Volume II, 1795 to the present, New York 2005.
- Ganzenmüller, Jörg: Russische Staatsgewalt und polnischer Adel. Elitenintegration und Staatsausbau im Westen des Zarenreiches 1772-1850, Cologne & Vienna 2013.
- Kieniewicz, Stefan: The Emancipation of the Polish Peasantry, Chicago & London 1969.
- Kocój, Henryk: Preußen und Deutschland gegenüber dem Novemberaufstand 1830-1831, Katowice 1990.
- Milewicz, Przemysław: National Identification in Pre-Industrial Communities. Peasant Participation in the November Uprising in the Kingdom of Poland 1830-1831, in: Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas 58 (2010), Nr. 3, pp. 321-352.
- Wandycz, Piotr S.: The Lands of Partitioned Poland, 1795-1918, Seattle 1975.
Music Used:
Beethoven - Symphony No. 7.
Tchaikovsky - Valse Sentimentale
Vivaldi - Concerto for Two Violins
Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:27 Congress of Vienna
1:14 The Kingdom of Poland and its Constitution
4:04 Political Disputes
5:01 Polish Economy
7:07 Tsar Nicholas I
9:53 The Revolt Begins
11:55 "Polenschwärmerei"
13:15 A Conservative Revolution?
14:36 Consequences
15:36 Outro

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@Artur_M. Жыл бұрын

I especially appreciate the parts about Stanisław Kostka Potocki and the "Polenschwärmerei", because these topics aren't sufficiently known even here in Poland, in my opinion. Also, the part about Łódź, because that's my city. 😅

@SirManateee Жыл бұрын

I wasn't quite aware of both of these things either before I started my research. And Łódź is theoretically deserving its own video if you ask me ;)

@Artur_M. Жыл бұрын

@@SirManateee While rewatching the video I've noticed a small detail about Łódź. Technically it wasn't a small village but a very small rural town. As you surely know, there was an important legal distinction between a village and a town (Magdeburg Law and all that). In fact this year Łódź celebrates the 600th anniversary of receiving town rights. Although, after the Third Partition, the Prussian authorities were considering legally demoting Łódź to a village (because that's what it arguably was in practice).

@forthrightgambitia1032 Жыл бұрын

@@SirManateee I remember when I visited Poland several people recommended the film Ziemia obiecana (The Promised Land in English) as a classic of Polish film, precisely about this topic.

@michaireneuszjakubowski5289 Жыл бұрын

We have a popular rhyme summarizing the leadership situation of the uprising: “Chłop nas zdradził, Skrzynka przyskrzyniła, Kruk oko wydziobał, Ryba zatopiła.” It's based on the names of the leaders of the uprising (chłop, peasant, from Chłopicki, Skrzynka, chest, from Skrzynecki, Kruk, crow, from Krukowiecki, and Ryba, fish, from Rybicki), and can be loosely translated as "The Peasant betrayed us, the Chest locked us up, the Crow plucked out our eye, the Fish drowned us." As always, great work covering topics essentially unknown outside the country!

@starseeker1334 Жыл бұрын

As a student of history from Poland, I applaud the high efforts put into the topic with all the details on the topic usually unknown outside of Poland, even in Germany its a topic never discussed outside the fact that "Poland did not exist as free state". Also correct pronunciation of all names is really impressive! Amazing channel that I am glad I found, after looking for videos about Kotze Affair.

@hammerheadtheseawing3263 Жыл бұрын

Fancy seeing you here lol

@starseeker1334 Жыл бұрын

@@hammerheadtheseawing3263 do i know you?

@sheitty5220 Жыл бұрын

not to be a dick, wouldn't go as far as saying correct pronunciation. He did do a much better job than most people trying to say polish names tho.

@starapto9272 Жыл бұрын

As a Pole, Polish pronunciation is perfect and I wish that your channel to be better known, because it is criminally underrated

@esteebangus Жыл бұрын

Thanks for this video regarding the context of the uprising. This uprising is really important to Lithuanians as well since we also participated in it and suffered the same consequences like the increased russification, closing of Vilnius university, persecution of the catholic church and applying divide and rule tactics against Poles and Lithuanians.

@Artur_M. Жыл бұрын

Great explanation of this topic! It's probably the best one available in English on this platform. Of course, as you hinted at, a whole other video could be made just about the military aspect of the Uprising itself. Perhaps one of many channels specializing in this kind of stuff will make such a video one day? One thing I would add is that the Congress Kingdom lost the last remains of its autonomy after yet another Uprising in 1863-1864. But the January Uprising (as it's called) is a whole other topic. Unlike the November one, it wasn't a regular war but had a character of guerrilla fighting.

@SirManateee Жыл бұрын

You could talk about the Russo-Polish war for an hour at least but military and war history are really not my thing :p But thank you very much, mate :)

@KoziPLUS Жыл бұрын

⁠ Sir Mantee excellent video. A video on the Krakow uprising of 1846 and the Galician Slaughter that happened as a result of it would be another interesting topic for a video. It will also address that “conservative rebellion” point you made as it very much deals about how not many Polish peasants were initially sympathetic to the idea of a revived Poland, and actively and violently tried to put one down.

@ashwathdamle7338 Жыл бұрын

A absolutely wonderful video. I have always found the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth a fascinating part of history but I didn't know anything about Congress Poland. As usual your video was a treat.

@adamkwiecien5489 Жыл бұрын

Actually, Congress Poland is the most fascinating part of history to me :)

@ShadowSkryba Жыл бұрын

I absoulutely adore your translation of Kongresówka!

@thebubshow8099 Жыл бұрын

Such an underrated channel! Super informative but also interesting

@Irrelevantnerd1918 Жыл бұрын

Amazing channel. Criminally underrated, great work

@lordedmundblackadder9321 Жыл бұрын

Fun fact, Frederic Chopin fled to Vienna (then Paris) when the rebellion broke out. He originally travelled with a friend, but when they reached Vienna, his friend returned to Poland to fight and I believe died in the war. Even after the rebellion ended, Chopin just stayed in France and never went home.

@adamkwiecien5489 Жыл бұрын

He didn't "flee". He left Warsaw 4 weeks before the uprising broke out.

@dosterix6034 7 ай бұрын

Well he wanted to go back and fight the russians really badly which can be seen in letters of his so this comment is a bit misleading

@WelcomeToDERPLAND Жыл бұрын

I wonder if Konstantin actually had a severe case of 'baby-face' or if it was just artistic license by the painter at the time.

@Artur_M. Жыл бұрын

Fun fact: he was known as the "short nose".

@adamkwiecien5489 Жыл бұрын

He was called "Half-man, half-monkey" by the contemporaries.

@jak00bspyr72 Жыл бұрын

On top of that, it is said he managed to run away from Warsaw dressed as a woman.

@adamkwiecien5489 Жыл бұрын

@@jak00bspyr72 It's a black legend intended to ridicule Konstantin, but in fact he hid in the attic of the palace and then left it when insurgents had already been gone. He stayed in Warsaw for 3 more days and left it (or rather was allowed to leave it) officially with the russian soldiers. No running away involved.

@akramgimmini8165 Жыл бұрын

Great Video as always 👌

@franklinclinton4539 Жыл бұрын

Alexander I was such a weird dude. He was in truth a firm believer in the divine right to rule and in absolute monarchy. But he also was a childish brat who seemed to change personalities depending on who he talked to. He liked to appear as an enlightenment monarch, which is probably the reason he gave Finland and Poland such freedoms. Alexander didn't actually think these promises meant anything, which certainly made things interesting. For example the Finns tought their relationship with Russia was a personal union with complete autonomy, whereas Alexander I tought he had just said some nice words to shut up the Finns.

@adamkwiecien5489 Жыл бұрын

He gave Poland such freedoms? The fact alone that he was in position to offer anything to Poland was an evidence that Poland wasn't free at all. Free countries have freedom without anyone else's opinion, agreement or offer to make.

@luksina138 Жыл бұрын

@@adamkwiecien5489thats at best a modern interpretation of the state and at worst a liberal view of history. By your logic not a single state nation or country was free before the 18th century as kings dictators and oligarchs ruled instead of the people.

@adamkwiecien5489 Жыл бұрын

@@luksina138 Incorrect. I'm talking about political states, not about the people living in those states. It's been the thousands of years of practice that the power was held by kings & monarchs - not by the ordinary people. Simply because most people are too stupid to run a country. They can't even read the books properly, let alone run a country. Monarchy is a natural method of governance, observed even in the kingdom of animals, like bees or ants. Democracy is an artificial whim of criminals, who normally were locked up in the dungeons and cellars, or exiled in Siberia or islands like Jersey, or hanged from a tree in XIXth century, because they caused most of the turbulences then, rebellions, revolutions, assassinations, social unrest and other acts of crime. 🤮🤢

@thisguyishisface370 Жыл бұрын

Damn, such a great channel!

@RudolfStern3399 Жыл бұрын

You’re making a great content and i really hope to see you succeed

@JulianSki Жыл бұрын

Another great video on the history of our nation! thank you for bringing these topics to light on your channel. I'd also like to applaud you on your well pronunciation of Polish

@metanoian965 11 ай бұрын

Zakazane historie - Y T

@retrogamer7571 Жыл бұрын

Great video

@purcitron 4 ай бұрын

This video is very well made!

@konduktorpklpriv3133 Жыл бұрын

You seriously need some shoutout, your content is high quality, well researched and you even nail foreign pronounciations, either Polish, Ukrainian or other. Big shoutout to you. P.S. I hope there will be some more videos on the Uprisings, especially the succesful ones

@tomaszmankowski9103 Жыл бұрын

Very decent video, many facts little known outside of Poland and many facts from Germany little known in Poland. It makes you wonder how different united Germany and history of Europe could be if it wasn't auticratic Prussia which united GER. One, major, very important flaw is that should also extend its description to Lithuania and Belarus - it was certainly an uprising of several nations - mostly Poles but also of the historical Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Lithuanians suffered a lot - their territory didn't enjoy autonomy the tiny, congress Poland did and war there was mostly guerilla style combat with heavy reprisals from Russian army.

@MrJakobMovies 11 ай бұрын

Top notch video good sir, polands history is always interesting and often badass

@CT7056 Жыл бұрын

I'm very impressed by accents you can pull off pretty much perfectly.

@domsenic5548 Жыл бұрын

Oh a New Video this is going to be a good day

@mrmlpvideogerman Жыл бұрын

Das Dankeschön kam sehr unerwartet.

@endriu5686 Жыл бұрын

Nice man, really good pronunciation

@lars_ger0716 Жыл бұрын

Perfect timing! I'm on an Exchange program in the Mazursky-Region near Mikołaiki.

@Vitalis94 Жыл бұрын

I’m from the region, in what city are you, if you don’t mind me asking?

@saperek7975 Жыл бұрын

very cool

@nihilean Жыл бұрын

easily a contender for top 3 best history channel of all time time, i see this channel going places man. danke für deine arbeit :)

@SirManateee Жыл бұрын

I'm glad to hear that :)

@Veriox22 Жыл бұрын

very enlighting video if i dare say so myself

@mathselep4336 Жыл бұрын

Great Video!

@Luxnutz1 Жыл бұрын

Warsaw a town in the Northern Neck of Virginia in the United States was named after this event. In 1831

@Artur_M. Жыл бұрын

Cool fact! I have looked it up and learned rhat that Warsaw, Kentucky, was also re-named that way in 1831.

@karolgoofit7901 Жыл бұрын

There was saying in Cogress kingdom. Constitution on the table whip under the table.

@forthrightgambitia1032 Жыл бұрын

I would add that London also became quite an important centre of Polish (and Russian) exiles in this period too. The disatisfied Polish exile was almost something of a stock character in Victorian literature and they had quite a strong lobby group in the British Parliament - albeit not with much success beyond eliciting vague expressions of sympathy for the plight of the Polish nation. And naturally Britain obviously had some ulterior moves in hosting political dissidents from their main imperial rival of the time. About the statement that another state with a similar degree of autonomy didn't emerge until 1918... I would disagree there. I would say the puppet Kingdom of Poland in 1917 carved out by from Congress Poland had probably about a similar level of autonomy as Congress Poland de facto, although in terms of economic policy far, far less given Germany's Mittleuropa plans. Had Austro-Hungary been in a stronger position it seems at least possible they would have attempted a trialist Austro-Polish solution with Poland - I think it would have been unstable for a territory as large and with such a national sentiment as Poland to remain subdivision of the Austrian empire, even if Hungary would have created a fuss - meaning it would have enjoyed a status similar to Hungary. That would have been similar to Congress Poland but likely much more autonomous in reality.

@auto952 Жыл бұрын

Can you make a video about King Otto of Greece? He was a Bavarian prince who became the first King of Greece. He ruled for 30 years, and Bavarian culture influenced the young Greek state. Bavaria was greatly influenced by Greek culture as well during this time and even changed its name from Baiern to Bayern in 1825 as the king was a great admirer of Greece. There are so many interesting trivia about the Greece-Bavaria connection, and King Otto would make an interesting video.

@Gosudar 6 ай бұрын

For non-German viewers, Münchengrätz is Mnichovo Hradiště in Czechia.

@jacekszkutnik6294 7 ай бұрын

In my opinion it is very worth mentionning the epidemics of cholera that was brought with the Russian troops. Around 50% of Russian army perished of cholera (including Grand Duke Konstantin and field marshal Hans Karl von Diebitsch) giving quite a good possibility of victory to the Poles. After the war cholera was brought to Western Europe together with the refugees.

@andreygnutov3318 Жыл бұрын

Комментарий в поддержку этого канала

@SirManateee Жыл бұрын

спасибо большое)

@goldenfiberwheat238 Жыл бұрын

9:30 looks like a gta 4 loading screen

@adamkwiecien5489 Жыл бұрын

There are some historical inaccuracies here and there, but overally, thanks for bringing up this subject to non-PL audience :)

@SirManateee Жыл бұрын

Do you mind elaborating on what I got wrong?

@adamkwiecien5489 Жыл бұрын

@@SirManateee I don't mind at all: - 6:05 - the map is obviously irrelevant to the years 1814-1831, as it shows the modern-day Poland. Raw materials shown on the left half of the map were far beyond the reach of Duke F. Drucki-Lubecki's governance. - 7:35 - the trial was held in the Krasiński Palace, not in the Senate Chamber of Royal Castle in Warsaw (wrong image used). - 9:03 - European revolutions in 1830 didn't inspire Polish conspirators, because they set up the conspiracy movement already in December 1828. They tried to ingnite the revolution few times in 1829-1830, but for various reasons they always postponed it. The uprising finally broke out in November 1830, after the conspirators learnt that they'd been in the danger of arrest. - 11:49 - Warsaw never capitulated officially. The government, army and the members of parliament simply fled the city (and continued to officially hold the government/parliament sessions elsewhere!), but never signed any capitulation paper. Also, Russians never crushed the Polish army, although they won the battle of Warsaw in September 1831. I intentionally skipped phrases like "The situation was not too terrible" (1:42), because it's the matter of personal judgement rather than historical fact. There were those (conspirators) to whom the situation was a lot terrible, but this is disputable depending on political views. I hope it helps :)

@SirManateee Жыл бұрын

@@adamkwiecien5489 I'm sadly not immune to error, so Thanks a lot for pointing these things out :) The only thing I'll contest is the map thingy because I couldn't find any usable map of early 19th century Polish natural reccources, so I just took one of modern day-Poland with the hopes that people will know that Silesia was then still Prussian. The map still shows the coal rich area around Lublin so it has its place.

@adamkwiecien5489 Жыл бұрын

@@SirManateee Please, don't take my comment as attack on you on something. Overall, I think your video is great and I thank you for it, because the subject is very little known to non-PL audience, while it is quite fascinating story. I just wanted to clarify few details. Few seconds of errors out of 15-minutes long video is a very good score, no need to be sad :)

@mariasirona1622 Жыл бұрын

Hmm, Lódź seems to have a history similar to Tampere

@GeneralCurtisEmersonLeMay 23 күн бұрын

Please make a Video about the Russification in Poland. You have already made a Video about ,,Germanisierung‘‘ and the prussian settlement commission. But in Russia there were also a strong Russification that affected almost all national Minorities. Espacially Poles….

@alektemkin Жыл бұрын

Wow? Who are you? Where are you from?

@Luxnutz1 Жыл бұрын

Sir Manatee - I would be interested in your story about the German reclaiming of Memel in 1939. The History of Heligoland. And the land of the Teutonic Knights in what is today Kaliningrad. I love this channel and the presentation of it.

@SirManateee Жыл бұрын

Those are some fantastic ideas, love em all :D

@Luxnutz1 Жыл бұрын

@@SirManateee I appreciate that

@Luxnutz1 Жыл бұрын

I forgot the Life and Adventures of Peter Tordenskjold

@ShadowSkryba Жыл бұрын

Soooooo, January Uprising?

@quillen_38204 9 ай бұрын

I am Vietnamese. I'm researching Polish history. If anyone is Polish, can you tell us more about Russian-Polish relations in the past and what Russia did to Poland?

@cloacky4409 8 ай бұрын

They were always tense and both of the nations would constantly be at eachother's throats. Poland managed to capture Moscow once (1610) and there was even a small chance for an union between both but it failed. As for what Russia has did to us: -Many medieval wars -123 years of occupation -1920 polish-bolshevik war -They invaded us in 1939 alongside the Germans -They "liberated" us in 44 and 45, but in reality, they were as bad as the Germans. Repressions were widespread and many people suffered because of those. Nothing changed for people back then, just the occupants. -After that, there were many political provocactions and such, at some point the plane with polish president onboard crashed in russia and more.

@Artur_M. 7 ай бұрын

There are several good books summarising the history of Poland available in English: _God's Playground_ by Norman Davies _Poland: A History_ by Adam Zamoyski _Poland: The First Thousand Years_ by Patrice M. Dabrowski _A Concise History of Poland_ by Jerzy Lukowski and Hubert Zawadzki I also highly recommend a brilliant book _The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus 1569-1999_ by Timothy Snyder. It will give you a broader look at the whole region. Plus, it deals a lot with Russian and Soviet imperialism. There's a much more famous book _Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin_ by the same author. Also, I can recommend _The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 1733-1795: Light and Flame_ by Richard Butterwick. A relatively new book about the turbulent last decades of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and its destruction by the Russian Empire (together with Prussia and Austria).

@davidelabarile1634 Жыл бұрын

poland is not yet lo....wait...in this case poland was lost for real....dang it whatever...beautifiul video man

@user-uh8fu3mb9l Жыл бұрын

“Order prevails in Warsaw!” “Order prevails in Paris!” “Order prevails in Berlin!” Every half-century that is what the bulletins from the guardians of “order” proclaim from one center of the world-historic struggle to the next. And the jubilant “victors” fail to notice that any “order” that needs to be regularly maintained through bloody slaughter heads inexorably toward its historic destiny; its own demise. -Rosa Luxemburg, “Order Prevails in Berlin” (1919)

@mareksicinski3726 Жыл бұрын

unfortunately this is not always true

@realhawaii5o Жыл бұрын

Łódź you? 🥁

@jmat9433 7 ай бұрын

łódź reference

@alekzander2010 Жыл бұрын

As youre German, how did you learn English with an Anglified accent? Most Germans who speak English I've met speak very Americanized English!

@ventedbus4917 Жыл бұрын

Comment for the algorithm

@decem_sagittae Жыл бұрын

Victoria 2 deep lore

@kobban63 Жыл бұрын

Algoritm

@normalperson410 Жыл бұрын

damm the polish names are actually well translated but the resource map that includes silesia killed me

@Vitalis94 Жыл бұрын

What’s wrong with the map? No one said that it was contemporary to the time period?

@normalperson410 Жыл бұрын

@@Vitalis94 it implies that silesia and other lands gained after 1945 are polish which just isn't the case

@Vitalis94 Жыл бұрын

@@normalperson410 They are today :P I don’t get how anyone could get confused, the Congress Poland is constantly shown throughout the video, it implies nothing IMO

@bosanski_Cevap Жыл бұрын

@@normalperson410 did you just imply that Silesia should be German?

@normalperson410 Жыл бұрын

@@bosanski_Cevap it shouldn't be polish

@Andrew-cn7zy Жыл бұрын

sup

@TheGeneralGrievous19 Жыл бұрын

4:53 One thing to note: the closing of public schools did not mean lack of education, but that it was more taken over by the Church (which also educated people for free). The dispute was about nature of schooling and curriculum. The conservatives were not anti-education.

@iwankonopiejko4278 Жыл бұрын

You may got more views if you put this video on november haha

@TheTb2364 Жыл бұрын

POLAN MENTIONED !!!!!11!

@SirManateee Жыл бұрын

Happens quite often on this channel

@pc_suffering6941 Жыл бұрын

Russia was like: Okay Poland I gib autonomy Poland: f you, I want more *gets less after the rebellion gets crushed*

@Polska_Edits 4 ай бұрын

More like "I give autonomy but i actually dont"

@DeusVultConstantinople 11 ай бұрын

Wow, Poland was exactly like Ukraine now...

@jeffkardosjr.3825 10 ай бұрын

No.

@DeusVultConstantinople 10 ай бұрын

@@jeffkardosjr.3825 What? Your little Polish pride was offended?)

@jeffkardosjr.3825 10 ай бұрын

@@DeusVultConstantinople What are you? Want to elaborate, ziomek?

@DeusVultConstantinople 10 ай бұрын

@@jeffkardosjr.3825watch your tongue, never know how long your ficticous country will exist

@cloacky4409 8 ай бұрын

@@DeusVultConstantinople Didn't know that Mongols could talk in English. Guess you learn new shit everyday.

@Rapture-nv5vj Жыл бұрын

I would love video about Greaterpoland in XIX, mostly, because I'm from greaterpoland😅. But also, we have some intresting things too, besides Greaterpoland Uprising in 1918.

@TheProjectVoid 8 ай бұрын

Poland blames all there woes on russia but all of there neighbors were to blame

@angelikaskoroszyn8495 6 ай бұрын

That's definitely not true. There's almost as much of germanophobia as russophobia deeply inbedded in Polish culture. The big different is that Russia is our most recent big bad villain. In Polish consciousness USSR was just Russia2.0 Besides no matter how certain people hate and fear Germany the country no longer has imperialistic tendencies. They prefer soft power nowadays. Russia meanwhile just is doing the old school invasion exactly in this moment

@4ester709 5 ай бұрын

@@angelikaskoroszyn8495 > Germany the country no longer has imperialistic tendencies Balkans *cough* supplies to Ustashas *cough* bombing *cough* garrison in Kosovo *cough*

@madtechnocrat9234 4 ай бұрын

austria is shattered neutral state, and prusia no longer exists. Only russia remains.