Denis Mikhaylovich Shilovskiy,
Candidate of Historical Sciences, Novosibirsk State University of Economics and Management, Novosibirsk, Russia, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Mikhail Viktorovich Shilovskiy,
Doctor of Historical Sciences, Novosibirsk State University; Institute of History of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Siberian Managerial Elite of the Early 19th – 20th Centuries
DOI: 10.31518/2618-9100-2021-5-3
The article analyzes key parameters (age, terms of office, ranks according to the “Table of Ranks”, education, ratio of the military to civilians) of the top-level managers in Siberia from the early 19th to 1917. A total of 214 administrators became heads of provinces and “oblasts” in the region during the period from 1822 to the February revolution. Most of them were Major Generals and Active State Councillors (68 % of the total number). After M.M. Speransky’s inspection of Siberia no cases of total corruption were registered among the Siberian governors, due to the gendarme supervision, strict control of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, establishment of operational communications with governmental structures, inspections. Almost all heads of territorial and administrative units of Asian Russia were aged between 50 and 55. The share of the military reduced; the majority of the future heads of territories were educated at the civilian institutions of higher education, for the most part at the universities. With few exceptions, most of them were Orthodox Christians, married, nobles with small or no estates, for whom the fixed official salaries were major source of income. In the extreme situation (revolution of 1905–1907) the officials lost “PR campaigns” to the opposition and revolutionary elements. By 1917, the personnel policy concerning the regional top officials had begun to falter.
Publishing: 28/10/2021
The article has been received by the editor on 15/03/2021
How to cite: Shilovskiy D.M., Shilovskiy M.V. Siberian Managerial Elite of the Early 19th – 20th Centuries // Historical Courier, 2021, No. 5 (19), pp. 32–39. [Available online: http://istkurier.ru/data/2021/ISTKURIER-2021-5-03.pdf]
Links: Issue 5 2021
Keywords: Governor-general; governor; Siberia; corruption; gendarmes; Ministry of Internal Affairs; personnel policy; Active State Councillor; Major General; conflicts