| Titre | Императорская власть, государственный аппарат и дворянство в конце XVIII в. | |
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| Auteur | Mihail M. Safonov | |
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Revue |
Cahiers du monde russe Titre à cette date : Cahiers du monde russe et soviétique |
| Numéro | volume 34, no 1-2, janvier-juin 1993 Noblesse, État et société en Russie XVIe - début du XIXe siècle | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | III |
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| Page | 149-158 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Mihail M. Safonov, Imperial power, state apparatus and nobility at the end of the eighteenth century.
One of the main characteristics of Russian absolutism in the late eighteenth century is the fact that it was not able to solve the problems deriving from the system constituted by economic, social and political relations based on exclusive privileges of the nobles. The Imperial power was faced with the necessity to introduce a few changes into the system and to re-examine some of the private interests of the nobility, whereas this class did not want to be deprived of its privileges. In order to reduce the nobility's opposition to the measures that were seemingly directed against it (though actually they tended to protect its interests), the Imperial power endeavored to gain the support of the bureaucracy, the upper echelons of which belonged to the nobility. Though they formed a distinct social stratum they were attached to the fundamental privileges of the nobles as much as the latter themselves. The vain efforts to solve the problems of the domestic policy by reinforcing the regime of personal power, the utmost centralization of governmental apparatus and the excessive increase of the part played by bureaucracy led to the palace revolution which stressed the desire of the nobility not only to preserve and reinforce its privileges but also to protect itself against any attempt of the Imperial power to transform the system in a way unfavorable to the nobles. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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