Rolf Malte,
PhD in history, professor of Otto Frederick University in Bamberg. E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Officials Travelling: to the Question of Structure and Characters of Imperial Bureaucracy during Final Years of the Russian Empire
DOI:10.31518/2618-9100-2018-1-7
The article reviews the role of high-ranking officials – emissaries of imperial government on the outskirts – in securing the unity of Russian Empire during second half of 19th century-beginning of 20th century. The article views high mobility and constant rotation of the officials as a phenomenon of imperial government apparatus. Basic mechanisms and specifics of administrative system managing the border regions of the Empire and headed by “mobile” officials are characterized using the example of the Kingdom of Poland. In the closing part of the article the author considers advantages and disadvantages of managing an Empire with the help of traveling emissaries. The article is written using the methodology of “new imperial history”, and as such, history of administrative structures in the late imperial Russia appears as history of intertwining, mutual influences, transferring and circulating communications, ideas and practices.
How to cite: Rolf M. Officials Travelling: to the Question of Structure and Characters of Imperial Bureaucracy during Final Years of the Russian Empire // Historical Courier. 2018. № 1. URL: http://istkurier.ru/data/2018/ISTKURIER-2018-1-07.pdf
Links: Issue 1 2018
Keywords: Russian Empire; outskirts; Kingdom of Poland; officials; bureaucracy; mobility; rotation; new imperial history