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| ] built upon ] traditions and laid foundations for the tsarist absolutism, a system that with some variations would govern Russia for centuries.<ref name=pt>Peter Truscott, ''Russia First: Breaking with the West'', I.B.Tauris, 1997 | ] built upon ] traditions and laid foundations for the tsarist absolutism, a system that with some variations would govern Russia for centuries.<ref name=pt>Peter Truscott, ''Russia First: Breaking with the West'', I.B.Tauris, 1997 | ||
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| Major Russian advocates and theorists of absolutism included ], ], ] and ]. In Poland, tsarist absolutism has been analyzed more critically by ]. | Major Russian advocates and theorists of absolutism included ], ], ] and ]. In Poland, tsarist absolutism has been analyzed more critically by ]. | ||
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Tsarist absolutism (Template:Lang-ru) was a form of absolute monarchy specific to Tsardom of Russia and the Russian Empire. It's more despotic then the enlightened absolutism, as the ruler is not constrained by the laws (which he can change), but it is different from despotism, as the ruler is not seen as God.
Ivan III built upon Byzantine traditions and laid foundations for the tsarist absolutism, a system that with some variations would govern Russia for centuries. Additional influences include the Tartar Yoke and the Mongol ideas and administrative useges.Peter the Great reduced the power of the nobility and strengthened the central power of the Tsar, establishing a bureaucracy and a police state. This was built on by Catherine the Great and other later Tsars. Although Alexander II made some reforms and established an independent judicial system, Russia did not have a representative assembly (Duma) or a constitution until the 1905 Revolution.
Major Russian advocates and theorists of absolutism included Mikhail N. Katkov, Konstantin S. Aksakov, Theodor Dostoyevsky and Piotr Siemionow. In Poland, tsarist absolutism has been analyzed more critically by Stanisław Mackiewicz.
Some historians see the traditions of Tsarist absolutism as partially responsible for laying groundworks for the Soviet totalitarianism. They also see the traditions of absolutism and patrimonialism as dominating Russia's political culture for centuries; for example, Stephen White wrote that Russian political culture is "rooted in the historical experience of centuries of absolutism." All of those views had been challenged by other historians (for example, Nicolai N. Petro and Martin Malia).
Notes
- ^ Peter Truscott, Russia First: Breaking with the West, I.B.Tauris, 1997 ISBN 186064199, Google Print, p.17
- Tartar Yoke] Professor Gerhard Rempel, Western New England College]
- Nicolai N. Petro, The Rebirth of Russian Democracy: An Interpretation of Political Culture, Harvard University Press, 1995, ISBN 0674750012, Google Print, p.35-36
- Nicolai N. Petro, The Rebirth of Russian Democracy: An Interpretation of Political Culture, Harvard University Press, 1995, ISBN 0674750012, Google Print, p.48
- Dennis J. Dunn, The Catholic Church and Russia: Popes, Patriarchs, Tsars, and Commissars, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2004, ISBN 0754636100, Google Print, p.72
- ^ David Lloyd Hoffmann, Stalinism: The Essential Readings, Blackwell Publishing, 2003, ISBN 0631228918, Google Print, p.67-68
- Nicolai N. Petro, The Rebirth of Russian Democracy: An Interpretation of Political Culture, Harvard University Press, 1995, ISBN 0674750012, Google Print, p.15
See also
Further reading
- Paul Dukes, The Making of Russian Absolutism, 1613-1801, Longman, 1986
- Marshall Poe, "Russian despotism" : the origins and dissemination of an early modern commonplace. Thesis (Ph. D. in History). University of California, Berkeley, 1993.
- Hugh Ragsdale, The Russian Tragedy: The Burden of History, M.E. Sharpe, 1996, ISBN 1563247550