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Res publica в общественной мысли России (вторая половина XIX — начало XX в.)
The chapter is devoted to the evolution of ideas about the republic, the state and forms of government in the public thought of Russia in the second half of the XIX - early XX centuries. During this period, various versions of the interpretation of the political regime of the empire, as well as the prospects for its development, "collided". Actually , the Republican idea was not popular. Nevertheless, the positivist reading of the phenomenon of statehood did not suit many intellectuals of different ideological trends. They did not accept the idea of sovereignty, the impossibility of the primacy of the supreme power and sought other grounds for the political community of the people, the nation, the "land". In fact, they went to the problems of res publica, without calling things by their proper names.