Search Results - "autocracy"

The current research analyses the structure of the political regime in the State of Israel. It demonstrates that existing Israeli democratic institutions do not control the state’s policymaking in full, and several politically important processes are controlled or at least influenced by various othe...

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The juxtaposition of “us” the people vs. “them” the elites and the demonization of outsiders have been the recurring themes across the post-Soviet space, from opposition party programs to the political rhetoric of chief executives. Is populism, often defined as a manifestation of nativism, anti-elit...

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The purpose of this article is to examine the causes and consequences of the formation in a non-democratic state of the digital infrastructure of control and suppression of society. As a research method, a comparative case study was used in the interpretation of A. Lijphart and a cross-temporal comp...

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The paper presents a socio-political analysis of the complex process of democratization in the Republic of Serbia, which had its ups and downs in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Analyzing some of the failures of the democratic forces, which enabled the unexpectedly quick return of autocratic...

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This article analyzes the possibility of development of liberal constitutionalism in the Russian Empire during the post-reform period in the late 19th – early 20th century within the context of European history, of which Russia was an integral component. It argues that the Russian autocracy had the...

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The article presents interface between ideas justifying Russian polity and efforts to implant those ideas into actual history of the country, particularly during the last century. Contradictory effects of those efforts are acknowledged and paradoxical results acclaimed. Still it also recognized that...

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The logic of realpolitik dominates once more the international relations in a world buffeted by multiple challenges and shocks – economic and geopolitical shocks, societal crises, backsliding into authoritarianism, rising protectionism and the erosion of multilateralism in international relations, c...

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The study suggests that the relationship between per capita GDP and intensity of antigovernment demonstrations is not negative as tends to be believed; we are rather dealing with an inverted U-shaped relationship: the highest levels of antigovernment demonstration intensity are typical for countries...

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The article considers the problem of development of the concept of state supervision in the domestic statutory acts of the autocracy. The author makes a content analysis of legal acts of the Russian state concerning state supervision in the second half of the 17th - early 18th century. The analysis...

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This paper reviews the history and evolution of the legal framework, as well as describes the legal steps and legal facts, which are directly related to and served as the basis for the formation of structure and development of statehood of the peoples of Russia.

The article identifies the characteristics of various types of political regimes, considered as ideal types. Following the most common classifications of political regimes, consistently analyzes the content and parameters sultanian, totalitarian, authoritarian and democratic regimes

On the basis of archival materials and literature sources the article addresses the participation of students in the events of the First Russian revolution of 1905-1907. The study focuses on the problems of formation and development of students' and pupils' self-government, the essence of...

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A review of a recently published monograph by E.M. Kozhokin. Revolution and its overcoming. Essays on the history of the Russian mentality. Moscow, MGIMO-University, 2020, 270 s.

Sergey Rachinsky, a professor tof the Moscow University, an educator and the founder of the school in Tatevo, Tver Oblast, and also the founder of 20 schools near Tatevo, was a close friend and interlocutor of Konstantin Pobedonostsev, Sergey Smolensky, Vasily Rozanov, Leo Tolstoy and many other fa...

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