| Titre | The territorial reform of the Russian Empire, 1775-1796 [II. The borderlands, 1777-1796] | |
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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 24, no 4, octobre-décembre 1983 | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Articles |
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| Page | 411-457 | |
| Résumé anglais |
John P. Le Donne, The territorial reform of the Russian Empire. 1775-1796. II: The borderlands, 1777-1796.
This article traces the extension of the territorial reform to the lands annexed from the Polish Commonwealth, Little Russia, New Russia, the Orenburg Territory and Siberia. Its thesis is that the reform very substantially increased the number of administrative-territorial units and their staffs, thus facilitating the process of governing and opening a large number of positions to be filled by landowners and demobilized officers. The new gubernii were created around the Polish voevodstva and the Little Russian territorial regiments. The criteria for drawing the boundaries of the new gubernii and uezdy continued to be geographical and economic, as in Great Russia, and the resulting shapes, often so different from those of the territories before their incorporation into the empire, reflected a concern for the creation of stable boundaries. The reform virtually abolished political and administrative regions, a policy reflecting the convergence of interests between the Great Russian nobility, the polonized shliakhta and the Cossack starshina. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/cmr_0008-0160_1983_num_24_4_1989 |
