Sharavara T. Reform and counter-reforms of second half ХІХ - the XX-th century beginnings in the Russian empire: historiography

The dissertation is devoted a historiography of country, financial, judicial, military reforms, and also reforms in the sphere of education and self-management. In the dissertation the published works pre-soviet, the Soviet and modern periods in which level of working out and realisation of the spent reforms and counter-reforms in the Russian empire, and also their consequences for a society is reflected are in a complex investigated. The basic directions in studying of the given theme are investigated; the basic questions which need the further researches are outlined and not completely reflected in the scientific and publicistic literature. In work the attention to dependences of historical researches from the historical periods and conditions is focused. New approaches of researchers to history of reforms and the counter-reforms, caused by clearing of a historical science of the Soviet estimations and stamps are opened. The contribution of foreign historians to studying of reforms is studied.