Gorky. Gorky University Publishing House. 1975. 167 pp. The print run is 500. Price 80 kopecks. The study of the internal policy of the autocracy in the second half of the 19th century is very important for a correct understanding of the social and economic changes that occurred in Russia after the abolition of serfdom. Understanding the nature and nature of various forms of socio - political struggle of that time is impossible without taking into account internal political phenomena, without understanding the subjective factor, behavior and psychology of people who were at the head of the state administration apparatus. Unfortunately, problems related to internal policy by conducting- page 171 In the nineteenth century, the problems of the ruling classes of Russia have not yet been fully investigated .1The book by the head of the Department of the History of the USSR of the pre-October period of the Belarusian University, Doctor of Historical Sciences I. V. Orzhekhovsky, devoted to the consideration of certain issues of this problem, fills this gap. The work is written on the basis of a wide range of sources, many of which are being introduced into scientific use for the first time. Along with official and documentary materials (legislative, all - issued reports and notes, reports of ministers and chief administrators, internal and interdepartmental correspondence) extracted from archival collections, the author uses memoirs, diaries and unofficial correspondence of members of the imperial family and representatives of the highest bureaucracy, and also draws on literature, unfortunately, very few due to the lack of development problems. The reforms of the early 1960s created the conditions for the transformation of the feudal monarchy into a bourgeois one. However, the preservation of semi-feudal remnants in the country predetermined not only the inconsistency of the autocracy's internal policy, but also created an opportunity for a transition to reaction. With the ... Read more