The Political System of the Russian Empire in the Publicism of the Neoslavophiles

In this thesis an attempt is made to develop a holistic view of the state structure of the Russian Empire in the journalism of the Neoslavophiles. In the thesis, the author analyzes general places and significant differences in the views of Neoslavophiles, using the views of D. N. Shipov, F. D. Samarin, A. A. Kireev, K. N. Paskhalov, D. A. Khomyakov and S. F. Sharapov as examples. As the most typical and politically active representatives of the Neoslavophilism. Also, the author suggests possible explanations for these disagreements, related to differences in views on the desired state system. In the thesis it is proved: Politico-legal projects of the theorists under study are similar in general ideological grounds, which gives grounds to consider them as representatives of one direction of social thought: the Neoslavophilism. Some theorists of the Neoslavophilism were characterized by republican ideas of the common good, understood as the blessing of the state as a whole, and not of its separate parts. The theorists of the Neoslavophilism were not part of the opposition movement, they were consistent supporters of the monarchical regime of government. The theoreticians of the Neoslavophilism had a skeptical attitude to the formal legal ways of regulating social life, conditioned by a specific way of thinking about the state.