Historical and theoretical foundations of political and legal conservatism of the right-monarchical radical political parties of Russia in 1905-1911 (on the example of the Union of the Russian People)

Abstract

The article provides a brief analysis of the state concept of the RNC in 1905-1907. during the period of relative ideological and organizational unity of the party led by A.I. Dubrovin through the prism of traditional Orthodox spiritual and political values in a comparative context with the views of P.E. Kazansky, L.A. Tikhomirova, I.A. Ilyina. In its ideological activities, the party proceeded from the formula “Orthodoxy, Autocracy, Nationality”, known since the 1830s, which it supplemented with the clause “Unity and indivisibility of Russia”.

As a result of the study, it was determined that the historical and theoretical basis of the political and legal conservatism of the radical right-wing monarchical parties represented by the RNC were the concepts of statehood based on the Christian worldview, which represents a separate direction in historiography. We also include the works of L.A. Tikhomirova, P.E. Kazansky and I.A. Ilyina. Moreover, the most radical part of the party did not accept the instructions of this direction about the existence of earthly prerequisites for the emergence and functioning of the national state. Some party representatives perceived the state not from a purely formal legal point of view, but from a religious and moral one, while others substantiated the legal foundations of the power of the Russian Emperor. But all of them were supporters of a monarchical form of government, a unitary state system and an authoritarian regime.

Conclusion. The RNC popularized the ideas contained in the triad “Orthodoxy, Autocracy, Nationality” with the addition of the motto “Unity and indivisibility of Russia” by all available and illegal (pogrom activities, anti-Semitism) means and sharply negatively opposed the liberal and socialist concepts of statehood at the turn of the 19th-20th centuries.