STEPS OF THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE GOVERNMENT AIMED AT DEVELOPMENT OF CAPITALIST RELATIONS ON THE TURN OF THE 19th – 20th CENTURY

Abstract

The article deals with detail analysis of home policy at the early 20-th century, the process of organizational building of liberal parties, their programs, adoption of legislation on restricting the power of autocracy and elimination of feudal survivals. The article shows the disastrous social state of workers and peasants, formation of legal opposition to autocracy on the part of Zemstvo, industrial and finance bourgeoisie. The article focuses on numerous steps taken by the government and approved by the emperor. Steps aimed at creation of legislative and executive branches of state power, adoption of key legislative acts, which targeted at restructuring the Russian Empire into Constitutional monarchy are substantiated.

Keywords

• «банкетная кампания»
• zemstvo movement
• ‘banquet campaign’
• liberal-democratic and revolutionary parties
• agrarian reform