The owner of the Russian land? Autocracy and bureaucracy in the era of modernity

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In 1897, during the first all-Russian population census, Nicholas II wrote the famous words in the questionnaire column "occupation": "The owner of the Russian land." But despite the formal omnipotence of the Russian autocrat, he was very limited in his freedom of activity on the part of the bureaucratic apparatus. The Russian bureaucracy, in the absence of legal institutions to restrain it, has become truly omnipotent. The book of the famous historian Kirill Solovyov gives a convincing collective portrait of the “ministerial oligarchy” of the late XNUMXth century and a detailed description of individual prominent representatives of this estate (M. T. Loris-Melikova, K. P. Pobedonostseva, V. K. Pleve, S. Yu. Witte and etc.). The author pays special attention to the mechanisms of state decision-making, conflicts between the bureaucracy and society, and intra-ministerial intrigues. The weakness of the administrative vertical with an outwardly rigid bureaucratic system, poor knowledge of the realities of Russian life by officials, legislative anarchy - all these factors eventually led to the fall of the monarchy. Kirill Solovyov - Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor of the Department of History and Theory of Historical Science, Russian State University for the Humanities. Author of three hundred scientific publications, including five monographs on the political history of Russia, the history of parliamentarism, management techniques and technology of power.

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Publication language: Russian

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