CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2013
| Author | Creciun, Ala |
|---|---|
| Title | A Return to Autocracy? The Bureaucratic Network at the Accession of Alexander III |
| Summary | This study explores the changes in the modes of informal organisation and interaction within the highest ranks of state administration during the accession of Russia’s Alexander III in 1881. Using alternative categories of bureaucratic organisation, this study sheds a new light on the dramatic period of deadlock during Alexander III’s first year in power, which has hitherto been attributed to the personal idiosyncrasies of the new tsar, but, as this study shows, lay in an excessively centralised mode of administrative organisation. As centralisation gives the impression of control, studies of the period refer to the accession of Alexander III as a ‘return to autocracy’; this study demonstrates that the consolidation of autocratic control amid the growing complexity of administration has led Alexander III to forfeit control of entire spheres of social life. Finally, the study will touch upon the emerging political agents – the mass press and the entrepreneurs – who helped shape the style of the new rule. |
| Supervisor | Rieber, Alfred J.; Miller, Alexei |
| Department | History MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2013/creciun_ala.pdf |
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