Rusia, doctrina Polizeistaat și reformismul boieresc
Russia, Polizeistaat Doctrine, and the Boyar Reformism

Summary/Abstract: The question of the ideological features of the reformism that inspired the substance of the Organic Regulations has not received adequate attention in the historical research. The Organic Laws, which were made under Russian patronage, were a work of synthesis involving both the native boyars of the Romanian Principalities and Russian officials. The ideological profile of local elite reformism is well known in Romanian historiography, but less research has been done on the ideological features of Russian reformism. The main currents of political thought in the Russian Empire, including in the area of diplomatic elites, had a heterogeneous and unstructured character, explicable not only by the ambiguities of Russian political culture (autocracy versus "constitutionalism"), but also by the presence of factional tendencies, according to the criteria of political choice, influence and interests. Nevertheless, the reforms carried out in Finland and Poland, together with those introduced in Novarussia and Basarabia, have been highly coherent and show serious affinities with the Polizeistaat model, of Central European extraction. In addition to a rather clear conception of the nature and role of the reforms, with the aim of conferring a more centralized organization to the state institutions, the reorganization of the state structures through the application of the Organic Regulations was also possible due to the political and administrative skills of Pavel Kiselev, patient, but determined, moderate but with a well developed plan, intelligent and clever, managing to overcome the resistance of the nobility, which was seriously affected by the new institutions, practices and procedures.

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