US REFORM OF RUSSIA'S FINANCES AND CENTRAL ADMINISTRATIONSOURCES1. 0 n R u s s i a's fi nan c e san d S per a n sky 's fi nan cia I act i v-
it i e s see:
Speranskii: "Plan Finansov M. M. Speranskogo 1809-go g .... in Sbomik IRIO,
vol. XLV (St. Pbg. 1885) pp. 1-73; "Istoriia assignatsii." Sbomik IRIO, vol. XXX
(St. Pbg. 1881). pp. 466-471; "0 skorosti monetnogo dvizheniia - zamechaniia M.
M. Speranskogo ot 4-go noiabria 1811," Arkhiv grafov Mordvinovykh. vol. IX, pp.
588-590; "Ob uchrezhdeniiakh. otnosiashchikhsia do ekonomii gosudarstvannoi i
pravitel'stvennoi." Arkhiv istoricheskikh i prakticheskikh svedenii, 1859. No.6, pp.
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1882); I. G. Bliumin. Ocherki ekonomicheskoi mysli v Rossii v pervoi polovine XIX
v. (Moscow-Leningrad 1940); 1. Bliokh. Finansy Rossii v XIX v. (St. Pbg. 1882). I
used the French translation, Jean de Bloch, Les Fi1Jances de la Russie au XIXe
siecle - historique et statistique, (2 vols. Paris 1899); N. Kaidanov. Kratkii khrono-
logicheskii obzor deistvii departamentov vneshnei torgovli i tamozhennykh sborov
po chasti torgovli Rossii s inostrannymi gosudarstvami 1811-1865 (St. Pbg. 1890);
Kalachev. "0 zaslugakh gr. Speranskogo v finansovom otnoshenii." Iuridicheskii
Vestnik, pp. 3-16 (date and vol. unknown to me; undated offprint at Hoover
Library used); M. Kashkarov, Denezhnoe obrashchenie v Rossii, (2 vols .• St. Pbg.
1898); 1. 1. Kaufman, Iz istorii bumazhnykh deneg v Rossii (St. Pbg. 1909); P. A.
Khromov, Ekonomicheskoe razvitie Rossii v XIX-XX vekakh (Moscow 1950); P.
I. Liashchenko, Istoriia narodnogo khoziaistva SSSR, vol. I. (Moscow 1947); A. P.
Pogrebinskii, Ocherki istorii finansov dorevoliutsionnoi Rossii (Moscow 1954); G.
Sacke, "L. H. von Jakob und' die russische Finanzkrise am Anfang des 19. Jahr-
hunderts." Jahrbilcher filr Geschichte Osteuropas, 3 (1938). pp. 601-619. V. M.
Shtein. Ocherki razvitiia russkoi obshchestvenno-ekonomicheskoi mysli XIX-XX
vekov, (Leningrad 1948); V. V. Sviatlovskii. Istoriia ekonomicheskikh idei v Ross;;
(Petrograd 1923); E. 1. Tarasov, Dekabrist N. I. Turgenev v Aleksandrovskuiu
epokhu (ocherk po istorii liberal'nogo dvizheniia v Rossii), (Samara 1923).2. 0 nth ere for m s 0 f the c e n t r a 1 a d min i s t rat ion see:
Speranskii: "0 gosudarstvennykh ustanovleniiakh," Plan Gosudarstvennogo
preobrazovaniia grata M. M. Speranskogo (Moscow 1905), pp. 230-297 - also in
Arkhiv istoricheskikh i prakticheskikh svedenii, 1859-111 pp. 15-49; "0 neobkho-
dimosti uchrezhdeniia soveta" (1809), in Korkunov, Russkoe gosudarstvennoe pravo,
II (St. Pbg. 1909), pp. 70-72; "Opravdatel'naia zapiska," Russkii Arkhiv, XXX.
No. 1 (1892), pp. 65-72, (Russ. transl. from original French pp. 72-78), also in
Shil'der, Imperator Aleksandr I, vol. III, Appendix, pp. 527-532; "Otchet v delakh
1810, predstavlennyi imperatoru Aleksandru I-u M. M. Speranskim, 11 fevralia
1811," Sbornik /RIO, vol. XXI (St. Pbg. 1877), 447-462.
.. BUlllagi kOllliteta uchrezhdennogo \'~ sochaishim reskripwlll 6go dekabria
1826-go goda," Sbornik IRIO, vol. XC (St. Pbg. J894); Gosudarstvennyi Sovet
1801-1901, St. Pbg. 1901; Zhurnaly Komiteta Ministrov - tsarstvovanie imperatora
Aleksandra I vols. I (1802-1810) and II (1810-1812), St. Pbg. 1888-1891; Danevskii,
Istoriia obrazovaniia Gosudarstvennogo Soveta v Rossii (St. Pbg. 1859); F. M.
Dmitriev, "Speranskii v ego gosudarstvennoi deiatel'nosti s obshchim ocherkom
istorii vnutrennogo upravleniia v XVIII v.," Russkii Arkhiv VI (1868-1869), pp.
1527-1656; N. M. Korkunov, Russkoe gosudarstvennoe pravo vol. II (6th ed., St.
Pbg. 1909); S. M. Seredonin, Istorioheskii obzor deiatel'nosti Komiteta Ministrov,
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8-1825, noiabria 19), St. Pbg. 1902; V. G. Shcheglov, Gosudarstvennyi Sovet v
Rossii, v osobennosti tsarstvovanie Aleksandra I, vol. II (Iaroslavl' 1892-1896); F. M.
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The histories of Russian public law referred to in the bibliography of Chapter 2.
contain discussions of the establishment of the Council of State, the reorganization
of ministries.