THE CHARACTERISTIC OF THE CATHERINE II’ ENLIGHTENED ABSOLUTISM IN RUSSIAN HISTORIOGRAPHY OF THE XXTH CENTURY
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
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Issue: 2, 2015
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