Lecture
Topic 1. The scholarly foundations of the course History of Public Administration. The emergence of the Old Russian state lecture session (2 hour(s)):
The subject and method of the course History of Public Administration in Russia. The place of the course within the system of the humanities and the socio-legal disciplines. The concept of public
administration, its functions and competence. The historiography and periodization of the history of public administration in Russia. The preconditions for and stages in the emergence of a state among
the Eastern Slavs. The prince and princely administration in Kievan Rus.
seminar session (3 hour(s)):
1. Administration: concept, types, principles.
2. The state, the state apparatus and public administration.
3. The main stages in the formation and development of state and municipal administration in Russia.
4. The formation of the system of public administration in Kievan Rus. The prince and princely administration. 5. Questions of public administration in the "Russkaya Pravda".
Topic 2. Public administration in Rus during the period of feudal fragmentation (12th-14th centuries). The formation of the centralized state and the system of public
administration in the 14th-15th centuries lecture session (4 hour(s)):
The preconditions for the disintegration of the Old Russian state. The main centres and models of public administration during the appanage period. Features of public administration in the Novgorod feudal republic. The influence of the Mongol yoke on public administration in Russia. The preconditions for and stages in the formation of a unified Muscovite state. The head of state (Grand Prince - Tsar). The Boyar Duma. The emergence of the chancery (prikaz) system. Mestnichestvo. Local administration in the Muscovite tsardom: uezd, volosts, stans, governors (namestniks), volost administrators and town bailiffs. State reforms of the central and local
organs of power in the mid-sixteenth century. Oprichnina rule: causes, essence, consequences. seminar session (3 hour(s)):
1. Public administration in the Russian principalities before the Mongol invasion (the Principality of Novgorod, the Vladimir-Suzdal Principality, the Galicia-Volhynia Principality).
2. The Golden Horde and the Russian principalities. The system of public administration during the period of the Mongol yoke.
3. The formation of a unified Russian state. The emergence of nationwide organs of administration.
Topic 3. State and local administration in Russia in the 16th-17th centuries lecture session (2 hour(s)):
The destruction of Russian statehood during the Time of Troubles (late 16th - early 17th centuries). Overcoming the consequences of the Troubles and the consolidation of autocracy in Russia. The Council
Code (Sobornoye Ulozheniye) of 1649 and the further consolidation of autocracy. The supreme organs of state power in the 17th century. Public administration at the central level.
Regional and local administration. Church and state. The preconditions for the emergence of absolute monarchy. seminar session (3 hour(s)):
1. Reforms of state and local administration in the mid-16th century (Ivan the Terrible).
2. The state apparatus of 16th-century Russia (the Boyar Duma, the Zemsky Sobor, the chanceries).
3. The establishment of the patriarchate.
4. The crisis of Russian statehood during the Time of Troubles.
5. The restoration of statehood in the first half of the 17th century and the search for new, unconventional forms of governing society.
6. The Council Code of 1649 and the further consolidation of autocracy.
Topic 4. The transformation of statehood during the reign of Peter I and his successors. Public administration in Russia during the period of "enlightened absolutism"
lecture session (4 hour(s)): The emergence of absolutism in Russia. Features of Russian absolutism. The supreme organs of state power: the Senate, the colleges, the Synod. Reforms of local administration. The judicial system. The Table of Ranks. The system of public administration in Russia during the era of palace coups. The policy of "enlightened absolutism" in the statecraft of Catherine II. The reorganization of the supreme and central administration of Russia in the second half of the 18th century. The Legislative Commission and its significance. The "Statute on the Governorates" of 1775 and the creation of a unified system of territorial administration. Organs of estate self-government and the creation of a system of estate courts. The "Charter to the Towns" and the development of urban estate self-government. seminar session (4 hour(s)):
1. The restructuring of the system of supreme and central organs of public administration (the Senate, the Synod, the colleges, the organs of state control and supervision).
2. The "Table of Ranks" and the creation of a new system of state service.
3. Local state institutions.
4. The era of "palace coups": changes in the system of state and local administration.
5. The policy of "enlightened absolutism" in the statecraft of Catherine II.
6. The reorganization of the supreme and central administration of Russia in the second half of the 18th century.
Topic 5. The state apparatus of the Russian Empire in the first half of the 19th century lecture session (2 hour(s)):
Russian statehood at the beginning of the 19th century. The factors that made the transformation of public administration necessary during the reign of Alexander
1. The transformation of the supreme and central organs of public administration (the ministerial system, the State Council, etc.). M. M. Speransky's plan of state reforms as an attempt to modernize the Russian administration. The reign of Nicholas I. A new modification of paternalist relations and the further bureaucratization of public administration. Local state institutions. Features of the administration of the borderlands. seminar session (3 hour(s)):
1. The modernization of Russia at the end of the 19th century. The reforms of S. Yu. Witte. Russian statehood at the beginning of the 19th century. The factors that made the transformation
of public administration necessary during the reign of Alexander I.
2. The transformation of the supreme and central organs of public administration (the ministerial system, the State Council, etc.).
3. M. M. Speransky's plan of state reforms as an attempt to modernize the Russian administration.
4. The reign of Nicholas I. A new modification of paternalist relations and the further bureaucratization of public administration.
5. Local state institutions.
6. Features of the administration of the borderlands.
Topic 6. Power, bureaucracy and society under the reforms and counter-reforms of the second half of the 19th century lecture session (2 hour(s)):
The essence and significance of the "Great Reforms" of the second half of the 19th century. The zemstvo reform of 1864 and the municipal reform of 1870: the achievements and contradictions of zemstvo and municipal self-government. The preparation and implementation of the judicial reform. The essence of the policy of "counter-reforms". Features of the zemstvo and judicial "counter-reforms". Models of the capitalist modernization of Russia at the end of the 19th century. The reforms of S. Yu. Witte. seminar session (3 hour(s)):
1. The essence and significance of the "Great Reforms" of the second half of the 19th century.
2. The zemstvo reform of 1864 and the municipal reform of 1879: the achievements and contradictions of zemstvo and municipal self-government.
3. The preparation and implementation of the judicial reform.
4. The essence of the policy of "counter-reforms". Features of the zemstvo and judicial "counter-reforms".
5. S. Yu. Witte's models of capitalist modernization.
Topic 7. State and regional administration of the Russian Empire at the beginning of the 20th century. The formation of public administration in the post-revolutionary period. lecture session (4 hour(s)):
The evolution of Russian statehood at the beginning of the 20th century. The problem of a constitutional "dualistic monarchy". The State Duma in the political system of Russian
society: the "Statute on Elections to the State Duma", organizational structure.
The supreme and central state institutions (the State Council, the ministries, the Police Department, etc.). Local state institutions. The state apparatus of Russia during the First World War. Dual power after the February Revolution.
The Provisional Government and its state institutions. The Soviets. The formation of the Soviet system of administration during the period of War Communism. The RSFSR Constitution of 1918.
Anti-Bolshevik governments. The NEP restructuring of public administration.
The formation of public administration on the basis of the USSR Constitution of 1924 and the new RSFSR Constitution. seminar session (4 hour(s)):
1. The supreme and central state institutions at the beginning of the 20th century (the State Council, the State Duma, the Senate, the Synod, the ministries, the Police Department, etc.).
2. The state apparatus of Russia during the First World War.
3. The Provisional Government and its institutions.
4. The first decrees of Soviet power; features of the formation of the Soviet state.
5. The first Soviet constitution of 1918 and the formation of a new system of public administration.
6. The formation of the USSR; features of "Soviet federalism". The USSR Constitution of 1924.
Topic 8. The system of public administration in the 1930s-1940s. Changes in public administration and the development of Soviet statehood in the 1950s-1980s lecture session (4 hour(s)):
The political order of the USSR in the 1930s. Changes in public administration on the basis of the USSR Constitution of 1936. The reorganization of public administration in connection with
the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War. Public administration in 1943-1945. Public administration in the first post-war years. The crisis of the political system
of Stalinism and the reorganization of power structures in 1953-1957. The reforms of N. S. Khrushchev. Power and administration in the "Brezhnev era". The USSR Constitution of 1977. Local organs
of state power and administration. The perestroika of M. S. Gorbachev. (The Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR, the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, the President of the USSR). The reasons for the failure
of the modernization of the Soviet system of administration. The State Committee on the State of Emergency (GKChP). The collapse of the USSR. seminar session (3 hour(s)):
1. The Soviet state apparatus and the nomenklatura.
2. The Constitution of 1936. The reorganization of the system of public administration on the principles of command-bureaucratic centralism.
3. The character of power and administrative structures during the Great Patriotic War.
4. The crisis of the political system of Stalinism and the reorganization of power structures in 1953-1957. The reforms of N. S. Khrushchev.
5. Power and administration in the "Brezhnev era". The USSR Constitution of 1977.
6. The perestroika of M. S. Gorbachev. (The Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR, the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, the President of the USSR).
Topic 9. The revival of Russian statehood and the formation of the contemporary system of public administration in the Russian Federation lecture session (2 hour(s)):
Syllabus of the discipline "History of Public Administration"; 081100.62 State and Municipal Administration;
Associate Professor, Cand. Sc. (Associate Professor) T. V. Khalilova
The political order of the USSR in the 1930s. Changes in public administration on the basis of the USSR Constitution of 1936. The reorganization of public administration in connection with the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War. Public administration in 1943-1945. Public administration in the first post-war years. The crisis of the political system of Stalinism and the reorganization of power structures in 1953-1957. The reforms of N. S. Khrushchev. Power and administration in the "Brezhnev era". The USSR Constitution of 1977. Local organs of state power and administration. The perestroika of M. S. Gorbachev. (The Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR, the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, the President of the USSR). The reasons for the failure of the modernization of the Soviet system of administration. The State Committee on the State of Emergency (GKChP). The collapse of the USSR.
seminar session (2 hour(s)):
1. The development of the political system in the post-perestroika years. The state apparatus of the Russian Federation in 1991-1993.
2. The political crisis of autumn 1993 and its consequences.
3. The drafting and adoption of the Constitution of the Russian Federation of 1993. The formation of new organs of state power (the President of the Russian Federation, the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, the Government of the Russian Federation and
the system of federal executive bodies, the judicial system of the Russian Federation).
4. The federal structure of Russia. Features of the Russian Federation.
5. Local self-government in the Russian Federation.
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