A.N. Dolgikh EMPRESS CATHERINE II OF RUSSIA, «ENLIGHTENED ABSOLUTISM» AND THE PEASANT QUESTION IN RUSSIA IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE 18th CENTURY

The article, using the  example of the intertangled fates of outstanding peers  Alexander II,M.N. Katkov and I.S. Turgenev, examines the complex picture of spiritual struggle of Russia for its future. On the one hand, it is a forming ideology of…

A.N. Dolgih ABOUT M.N. POKROVSKY’S VIEWS ON THE “THE PEASANT ISSUE” IN POLITICS AND THE LEGISLATION OF THE RUSSIAN AUTOCRACY IN THE PRE-REFORM TIME

The article considers the first Soviet Marxist historian Mikhail Nikolayevich Pokrovsky’s views on the history of “the peasant issue” in internal policy and legislation of the Russian Empire in 18th – first half of 19th century, the pre-reform period. It…

A.N. Dolgih THE ISSUE OF INTERPRETATION OF THELEGISLATION CONCERNING THE PEASANT QUESTION AT THE TURN OF 18TH–19TH CENTURIES IN MODERN HISTORIOGRAPHY

The article is devoted to analysis of modern historiography of the law concerning the peasant question at the end of 18th – beginning of 19th century. In particular, various aspects of the interpretation of this problem in modern popular scientific…