Участие Совета министров в формировании законодательной политики в отношении дальневосточных окраин Российской империи (1906 -1914)

Вестник Российской правовой академии. 2020. № 1. С. 12–18.

Аверин М. Б.

The importance of the research problems of studying the legal framework and the role of the Council of Ministers of the Russian Empire in the formation of legislative policy in the Far East during the period under review is determined by the importance of administrative and socio-economic changes taking place in the area and coincided with a fundamental transformation of the higher or- gans of state power. The Council of Ministers and its Chairman, who were un- der new conditions caused by constitutional changes and changes in the role of the highest government body, became the most important state institution that had broad powers to manage the national outskirts of the Russian state.
The subject of the study is the legal basis for the organization and activities of the Council of Ministers for the development and implementation of legislative policy in relation to the Far East, the practice of interaction with other state in- stitutions. The purpose of the study is to identify the features of organizational and legal forms of government activity in the development and implementa- tion of legislative policy in relation to this territory. The methodology of the work consists of a comparative legal and historical legal method. The study conclud- ed that in determining the content of the far Eastern program, the government was guided by the will of the Emperor, the interests of influential political circles in the houses of Parliament, urgent needs dictated by the conditions of devel- opment of the region, as well as ideas about foreign policy threats. The Coun- cil of Ministers became the most important platform for taking into account various political interests and finalizing draft laws that received support at all stages of their passage through the instances. The effectiveness of the govern- ment’s work in this direction increased with the creation of the Committee for the settlement of the Far East. The materials of the article deserve the atten- tion of experts in the field of state and law history, as well as researchers on the management of the national outskirts of the Russian Empire.

Keywords: законодательный процесс, Совет министров, председатель Совета министров Российской империи, Комитет по заселению Дальнего Востока