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

PLANS OF REFORM 149 breaking the bureaucracy's domination over the judiciary, it delegates judicial responsibility to citizens t ...

150 PLANS OF REFORM courts in equity set up by Catherine II for the nobility. Nor did the very restricted composition of the var ...

PLANS OF REFORM 151 in resolving such difficulties, nor does he clarify a good many other points concerning the rights of the Du ...

152 PLANS OF REFORM (volostnoi gorod). 1 The efficiency of this scheme - which is of course strongly reminiscent of Peter the Gr ...

PLANS OF REFORM 153 to overcome the force of inertia inherent in a centralized, absolutist, bureaucratic state, in a nobility wh ...

154 PLANS OF REFORlVI draft of the Plan of 1809 has been lost too; and anyway, as it was not an "academic" or scholarly "paper," ...

PLANS OF REFORM 155 icism," in the classical meaning of the term.^1 Unlike most of his colleagues in the government, Speransky w ...

156 PLANS OF REFORM ized by conservative thinkers after 1789 in opposition to the "atomistic" views of radicals and progressive ...

PLANS OF REFORM 157 v. G. Shcheglov's detailed and careful study of the ideological and institutional forerunners of the Council ...

158 PLANS OF REFORM affairs We have entrusted to it refer only to legislative matters, executive affairs are referred to the Sen ...

PLANS OF REFORM 159 warned the Emperor, came true. Prepared in great secrecy, and pub- lished out of their "natural" context, th ...

160 PLANS OF REFORM Romanzoff's particular friendship [?]. He' is the reputed authoI of general public manifestoes and other sta ...

PLANS OF REFORM 161 projected by Speransky, were mere copies of French institutions, those wicked and abhorrent creations of the ...

162 PLANS OF REFORM the Council of State, in no ways restricted this prerogative. Further- more, the Statute of the Council left ...

PLANS OF REFORM 163 of an administrative organ or body, composed of several equal members, similar to the contemporary idea of " ...

164 PLANS OF REFORM century. But Nolde had to admit that in practice Speransky negated his own definition of the separation of p ...

PLANS OF REFORM 165 of the various classes of society. What mattered was the spiritual and moral development of the people, not ...

166 PLANS OF REFORM to his militaristic inclinations, whereas in Speransky's, it was an expres- sion of a bureaucratic and legal ...

PLANS OF REFORM 167 work for, was suggested by his moral sense, his belief in the harmony of national life, his understanding of ...

168 PLANS OF REFORM rizing and analyzing the plans and concrete proposals of Speransky, we have often pointed out the narrow lim ...