The Imperial Paradigm of Public Administration in Russia in the 18th to the Early 20th Century: The Essence, Research Areas

The author analyzes the elements that make up the imperial paradigm in relation to the sphere of public administration in Russia during the XVIII — early XX centuries. In dialectical unity, systemic-structural, comparative-legal and historical-legal methods are used within the framework of a materialistic approach to states and law. The range of issues concentrating the vision of the evolution of imperial Russia in the political and state sphere is determined. The article examines the implementation of state power in relation to social organization, transformations of the state apparatus in the center and in the regions, the dynamics of the ideological component of statehood.