| Titre | The territorial reform of the Russian Empire, 1775-1796. I. Central Russia, 1775-1784 | |
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| Auteur | John P. Le Donne | |
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Revue |
Cahiers du monde russe Titre à cette date : Cahiers du monde russe et soviétique |
| Numéro | volume 23, no 2, avril-juin 1982 Autour du XVIII e siècle | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Articles |
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| Page | 147-185 | |
| Résumé anglais |
John P. Le Donne, The territorial reform of the Russian empire, 1775-1796. I: Central Russia, 1775-1784.
This article traces the changes brought about by the reforms of the 1780's in the administrative map of central Russia. Steps taken at the very beginning of the reign of Catherine to create a uniform system of local administration exposed the obsoleteness of the territorial division created in 1727. Much preparatory work was done in the 1760's and the reform began soon after the first Turkish war. It eliminated the province as the intermediate level between the guberniia and the uezd, raised most of the provincial capitals to the status of guberniia capitals and considerably increased the number of uezdy. In addition to considerations of administrative efficiency stimulated by the rationalist current dominating the intellectual world of the reign, the territorial reform pursued political ends in the form of a redistribution of functions between the central government and the provinces, and it established a solid infrastructure dominated by provincial landowners to defend the foundations of the social order. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/cmr_0008-0160_1982_num_23_2_1942 |
