Sergeyev I. Socio-political development of the Roman empire in the 3rd Century AD.

The object of study - a socio-political history of the Roman empire.The purpose of research is the elucidation of characteristic features and the pecularities of socio-political development the Roman empire in 3rd Century AD. The methods used in the research are: chronological, synchronous, diachronous, comparative-historical, method of the complex analysis of sources, method of the system analysis. The dissertation is devoted to the analysis of socio-political development of the Roman empire in 3rd Century AD. In the work it is shown, that the 3rd Century AD was a difficult period of the Roman empire's history. However the situation in the empire was not equally difficult during all this period. In first third of century the system of state bodies of Romans functioned in whole normally. But from the beginning of 230th socio-political situation in the empire becomes complex. The aggravation of the situation was connected with the changes in social psychology of the soldiers of the Roman army, and alsowith the formation of several large grouping in Roman armed forces. The Roman senate played the certain rile in political life of the empire in 3rd Century AD, but this role should not be exaggerated. In the dissertation it is proved, that usurpations of the emperor's power were not a display of provincial separatism; that movements of bottoms of the Roman society were not numerous and they did not influence so much on the political life in the empire; that from 235 AD to 284 AD in the Roman empire political crisis continued. The result of its overcoming was the formation of new system of the state bodies of the empire - a system of Dominate.