The state of power in the late Russian empire: the English-American historiography of the second half of the XXth - early XXIst centuries

In this paper the author analyzes the English-American historiography of the second half of the XX - early XXI centuries on the problem of the state of power in the late Russian Empire. The main Russian bureaucracy and state-machine characteristics, proposed by foreign scholars, are defined and systematized. The author concludes that English-American works on the history of the pre-revolutionary Russian bureaucracy show the unity of scientific methodological approach. The approaches of Russian and foreign authors are also compared. *The paper is prepared with financial support of the grant of the President of the Russian Federation for young Russian scholars МК-200.2007.6