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THE CHARACTERISTIC OF THE CATHERINE II’ ENLIGHTENED ABSOLUTISM IN RUSSIAN HISTORIOGRAPHY OF THE XXTH CENTURY // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2015. Issue 2 (155). P. 98-101

The article contents brief historiographical overview of the policy of enlightened absolutism of the Empress Catherine II. The article attempts a comparative analysis of the views of Soviet researchers, starting from the second half of the twentieth century, and the latest time on the question of enlightened character of the policy of Catherine II. In this essay specifics of interpretation of domestic Soviet and contemporary researchers such policy aspects of the Empress as an enlightened monarch as a problem as a problem of the chronological framework of enlightened absolutism, the problem of reception of heritage of the age of Enlightenment and other.

Keywords: Catherine II, French Enlightenment, enlightened absolutism, perception

RECEPTION OF THE IDEA OF ENLIGHTENED ABSOLUTISM OF THE FRENCH ENLIGHTENMENT IN THE WORKS OF A.N. RADISHCHEV (MATERIALS OF SOVIET HISTORIOGRAPHY) // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2015. Issue 9 (162). P. 214-218

Question of the reception of the ideas of enlightened absolutism A. N. Radisheva is one of the most discussed among domestic researchers. Opinions on the issue can be divided into two groups. The first is that Radishchev was negatively disposed to the theory, the second believe that the writer was kind of hoping for the possibility of the existence of an enlightened monarch. The work is the study of attitudes of the Soviet researchers on the question of the relationship of the writer to the idea of enlightened monarch, as reflected in the notes to the word “samoderzhaviye” in the translated book by the French philosopher G. Mably “Reflections on Greek history or the reasons of the prosperity and misfortunes of the Greeks” and his major work “Journey from Petersburg to Moscow”. As a result of the study with the involvement of writer’s texts it was concluded that the greatest validity has the opinion on the commitment of Radishchev to the theory of enlightened absolutism.

Keywords: A. N. Radishchev, G. Mable, the theory of enlightened absolutism, the Soviet historiography, perception