| Titre | The ministers of Alexander II : A survey of their backgrounds and service careers | |
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| Auteur | William Bruce Lincoln | |
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Revue |
Cahiers du monde russe Titre à cette date : Cahiers du monde russe et soviétique |
| Numéro | volumer 17, no 4, octobre-décembre 1976 | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Articles |
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| Page | 467-483 | |
| Résumé anglais |
William Bruce Lincoln, The ministers of Alexander II: A survey of their backgrounds and service careers.
To be sure, there were a number of outward similarities between the ministers of Alexander II and his father Nicholas I, but there were significant differences as well. Alexander's ministers had a considerably higher level of education than was the case with his father's ministerial appointees, and, perhaps most important, Alexander's appointees included a significant percentage of men who had risen to high rank because of technical or administrative expertise. Yet, even if the type of men appointed to head Russia's ministries under Alexander II had changed, the nature of autocracy, and the over-all functioning of the bureaucracy, remained much the same as in the past and, in the end, these factors served to limit the effectiveness of the men whom Alexander appointed to ministerial positions. As a result, even though Alexander's ministers were better equipped by education and training to deal with the problems which Russia confronted, the nature of the system in which they were obliged to function, as well as the nature of their earlier experiences in the state service, limited their effectiveness in dealing with the many crises which Russia faced during the 1860's and 1870's. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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