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 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…