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The Russian State and Bureaucratic Power

The Russian State and Bureaucratic Power WALTER M. PINTNER (Ithaca, NY, U.S.A.) THE RUSSIAN STATEAND BUREA UCRA TIC POWER A historian should always be pleased.when a scholar from another dis- cipline takes history seriously and tries to use an historical perspective in the analysis of important current issues. It would be ungrateful of me to quibble about the rather sloppy way that Professor Ozernoy uses some historical terms, votchina, and boyar, for example. In a very general sense I agree with her approach. Russia indeed has had a strong tradition of bu- reaucracy that can be traced back at least to the seventeenth century, and possibly to the sixteenth, as Professor Ozernoy suggests.1 I am, however, troubled by a number of things. First is the sweeping as- sertion that the bureaucratic system of the sixteenth century, including ko- rmlenie and mestnichestvo systems; remained in effect, in reality if not in name, down to the end of the old regime (pp. 8-9). Yes, the virtually unpaid local official in the early eighteenth century was, de facto, "feeding" when he extracted bribes from his supplicants. But to suggest that the sixteenth- century voevoda ruling over his district and extracting what the traffic could bear has much in http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review Brill

The Russian State and Bureaucratic Power

Pintner, Walter M.
The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review , Volume 23 (1): 3 – Jan 1, 1996
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WALTER M. PINTNER (Ithaca, NY, U.S.A.) THE RUSSIAN STATEAND BUREA UCRA TIC POWER A historian should always be pleased.when a scholar from another dis- cipline takes history seriously and tries to use an historical perspective in the analysis of important current issues. It would be ungrateful of me to quibble about the rather sloppy way that Professor Ozernoy uses some historical terms, votchina, and boyar, for example. In a very general sense I agree with her approach. Russia indeed has had a strong tradition of bu- reaucracy that can be traced back at least to the seventeenth century, and possibly to the sixteenth, as Professor Ozernoy suggests.1 I am, however, troubled by a number of things. First is the sweeping as- sertion that the bureaucratic system of the sixteenth century, including ko- rmlenie and mestnichestvo systems; remained in effect, in reality if not in name, down to the end of the old regime (pp. 8-9). Yes, the virtually unpaid local official in the early eighteenth century was, de facto, "feeding" when he extracted bribes from his supplicants. But to suggest that the sixteenth- century voevoda ruling over his district and extracting what the traffic could bear has much in

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Published: Jan 1, 1996

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