Michael Speransky. Statesman of Imperial Russia, 1772–1839 - Marc Raeff

LAST YEARS - CONCLUSION 349 A subject that occupied the minds of many officials was the better organization of primary and secon ...

350 LAST YEARS - CONCLUSION fluenced the slow shift in thinking about the serf problem that can be detected in the committees of ...

LAS'!' YEARS - CONCLUSION 351 ed, or the views of the Slavophile reformers analyzed very carefully and completely, the connectio ...

352 LAST YEARS - CONCLUSION new commlsslon on laws. The more "liberal" intelligentsia saw in Speransky's return the solution of ...

LAST YEARS - CONCLUSION^353 equals and colleagues. Psychologically, he remained lonely and an Einzelgiinger. As a result, he cre ...

354 LAST YEARS - CONCLUSION and intellectual successors: making .up the intelligentsia properly speak- ing, they never forgave t ...

LAS'f YEARS - CONCLUSION 355 house after 1825 (and Speransky was a regular visitor to Zhukovskii's weekly receptions); but they ...

356 LAST YEARS - CONCLUSION formal and distant: Nicholas was not a person to whom one could be close; and the great discrepancy ...

LAST YEARS - CONCLUSION 357 that was important for me. He knew the innocence of my brother, and even demonstrated it to me himse ...

358 LAST YEARS - CONCLUSION judgment on Speransky's life and work. both point out some of the factors which render it difficult ...

LAST YEARS - CONCl..USION 359 best factor for success in a big bureaucratic organization, where striking and strong personalitie ...

360 LAST YEARS - CONCLUSION but he streamlined the procedure and clarified the aims and task. For example, the idea of well-run ...

LAST YEARS - CONCLUSION^361 for finding a solution for it in institutional terms. The solution in turn, broken down analytically ...

862 LAST YEARS ...,.. CONCLUSION was first of all a technical improvement. But it also set new goals to national political life. ...

LAST YEARS - CONCLUSION 363 period. Speransky was convinced (as were the reformers of the 1860's and 1870's) that with the peopl ...

864 LAST YEARS - CONCLUSION and economic progress could be guided in a specific direction by the state. His negative historicism ...

LAST YEARS - CONCLUSION 865 bureaucracy, but also its inherent weakness and inadequacy. He set it a high standard of honesty, de ...

366 LAST YEARS - CONCLUSION his own times and very much determined by them; in this sense, he was much less of a creative person ...

LAST YEARS - CONCWSION 367 change in atmosphere which occurred during his own lifetime is shown by the fact that his social isol ...

BmLIOGRAPHY The sources, primary and secondary, used in this study are cited at the end of each relevant chapter. It was felt de ...