Autocracy. Bokhanov A.

This work was written by an outstanding historian, doctor of historical sciences Alexander Bokhanov. This is the first book of the author in the trilogy of historiosophy of Russian statehood. It defines the Institute of the Historical power of Rus' - Russia of the period of a single centralized state: from the beginning of the 16th century to the fall of the monarchy in 1917.

, being next to Western Europe, having many diverse connections with it, adopting many features of many features The household structure, borrowing technological and technical innovations, Russia managed to maintain its specialty, its self, regardless of the winds of change, who believed from the West. The two great forces created and held the state system, giving it a unique flavor and unique content - Orthodoxy and autocracy. They historically actualized in close interaction, and the last four centuries of stories existed in inextricable unity.

attracting a huge and diverse historical material, the author explores a complex and contradictory process of the formation and development of monarchical power, highlighting as a dominant spiritual and moral aspect. At the same time, it analyzes how the idea of ​​tsarist power was formulated in the minds of various people, both the main ideenasis in the person of the monarchs and autocratic oriented thinkers: from N. M. Karamzin and A. S. Pushkin to F. M. Dostoevsky and V. V. Rozanov how refracted into the state -forming structure.