CONSTRUCTIVE POTENTIAL OF RUSSIAN CONSERVATIVE IDEOLOGY IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE 19TH - EARLY 20TH CENTURY.

Abstract

The article makes it clear that authors of conservative projects and proposals offered the way of peaceful, evolutional, non-violent adaptation, and, when it was necessary, the tactical reform of the monarchical form of government in a changing socio-historical situation. One imperative remained inviolable: the absolute supremacy of the power of the autocrat. The main thing is that evaluating the monarchy as the best form of supreme power, conservatives believed that, in the new conditions, autocracy requires understanding and support of people more than any other form of government. In the end, Russian conservatives relied on the use of the inexhaustible potential of the state-power resource.