THE «ENLIGHTENED BUREAUCRATS» - A NEW KIND OF RUSSIAN CIVIL CERVANT: AN ATTEMPT OF CHARACTERIZATION

The article provides a comprehensive characterization of cadres, which became authors and conductors of the Great Reforms of the 1860s. The author emphasizes that modernization of the country would have been impossible without the enlightened liberal bureaucrats, among which is M.M. Speranskiy, E.F....

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Main Author: I V Ruzhitskaya
Format: Article
Language:Russian
Published: Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University) 2008-12-01
Series:RUDN Journal of Russian History
Online Access:http://journals.rudn.ru/russian-history/article/view/18839
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Summary:The article provides a comprehensive characterization of cadres, which became authors and conductors of the Great Reforms of the 1860s. The author emphasizes that modernization of the country would have been impossible without the enlightened liberal bureaucrats, among which is M.M. Speranskiy, E.F. Konkrin, P.D. Kiselev, D.N. Bludov and others. World view of the generation of rational bureaucrats was formed under the influence of ideology of the french Enlightenment, teachings of the french liberals during the Restoration period, the russian literature. Ruzhitskaya has highlighted distinguishing features of the new civil cervants who promoted reforms on condition of their apprival by the autocracy.
ISSN:2312-8674
2312-8690