Samoderz︠h︡avie i konstitut︠s︡ii︠a︡: politicheskai︠a︡ povsednevnostʹ v 1906-1917 godakh
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On April 23, 1906, the Constitution was “granted” by the highest decision. The State Duma earned, which in 1809 the reformer Mikhail Speransky proposed to establish. It is generally accepted that in connection with the events of the first Russian revolution, the autocracy made a tactical concession to society, that Russia received only the shadow of a constitution, and the Duma did not become a real parliament. Is it so? Did everyone in the king’s circle consider representative institutions to be pure props? Why was P. A. Stolypin, endowed with tremendous power, regularly speaking to Duma deputies and discussing reform projects with them? Why was there not a majority in the Duma that supported the government? A new book by Kirill Solovyov shows how the political system of the Russian Empire worked between the two revolutions, what were the individual achievements of the new political institutions, as well as their numerous vulnerabilities, which largely led to the political crisis of 1915-1917. Kirill Soloviev - Doctor of Historical Sciences, Chief Researcher at the Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The author of more than four hundred scientific publications, including five monographs on the political history of Russia.
