TECHNOLOGIES INTRODUCES IN RUSSIAN STATE IN MODERN TIME
Keywords:
bureaucracy, Ivan the Terrible, autocracy, Russian state, centralization, composite state, political regime, Early New TimeAbstract
This article attempts to discuss the new technologies introduced in Russian state earlier in the state formation. In the second half of the last century, a well-defined and stable historiographical tradition was formed, proceeding from the fact that the early-modern Russian state was centralized, unified in administrative and institutional aspects. However, recently this fact has been criticized. In this article the authors propose to look at the essence of the early-modern Russian state from the inside. In their opinion, the Russian state of this time was undecentralized. Developing in an evolutionary way about relying on antiquity, it preserved many relics of the past. They imposed certain restrictions on the supreme power, preventing the buildup of power infrastructure. Weak institutionally, early modern Russian state was forced to rely on the support of society. As a result, the authors summarize their reasoning, the processes of centralization in Russia were still far from complete by the end of the early New Age.
