N. A. Miliutin and the St. Petersburg Municipal Act of 1846: A Study in Reform Under Nicholas I
| Autor: | W. Bruce Lincoln |
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| Rok vydání: | 1974 |
| Předmět: |
Cultural Studies
Government geography geography.geographical_feature_category media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Fell Control (management) 0507 social and economic geography Charter Empire Public administration 050701 cultural studies 0506 political science Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Political science Law 050602 political science & public administration Gentry Governor Administration (government) media_common |
| Zdroj: | Slavic Review. 33:55-68 |
| ISSN: | 2325-7784 0037-6779 |
| DOI: | 10.2307/2495326 |
| Popis: | Beginning with Catherine II's Municipal Charter of April 21, 1785, Russia's statesmen made repeated efforts to inmprove the ineffective and antiquated manner in which urban affairs were administered in the Russian Empire., By the beginning of the 1840s, however, the problem of modernizing the administration of Russia's cities was no nearer to a practical solution than it had been a half-century earlier. The growing number of administrative duties which fell upon the shoulders of city authorities sometimes made urban officeholding nearly a full-time responsibility, and Russia's urban classes were understandably reluctant to serve in elective offices which took so much time away from their personal business affairs and offered so little prospect of reward. Indeed, more powerful merchants often left the administration of city affairs to less prominent members of the trading community whom they could control through economic pressure. But these lesser merchants also were reluctant to let their business affairs languish while they assumed the role vacated by their economic superiors, particularly since they lacked the education and training needed to carry out the required tasks. Therefore, elected city officials (and there were more than six hundred in St. Petersburg alone in the early 1840s)2 ceased to perform their assigned tasks, and as a result city government in the empire became increasingly ineffective. The military governor of Kazan complained that that city's gentry were systematically |
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