TY - JOUR

T1 - Conservatives against Uvarov's Triad

AU - Kotov, A. E.

AU - Amosova, A. A.

N1 - Kotov A.E., Amosova A.A. Conservatives against Uvarov’s Triad. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2018, vol. 63, issue 4, рp. 1031–1046. https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu02.2018.404

PY - 2018

Y1 - 2018

N2 - The notion of "Russian conservatism" is commonly associated with the support of so called Uvarov's triad. However, as noted even by Soviet researchers, many individual conservatives were not in the mainstream of the government policy. At the same time, the conservatives did not constitute a single whole. United by their general commitment to historical continuity, they often understood it in fundamentally different ways, focusing on various aspects: national, class, institutional, state or religious. As a consequence, they disintegrated into numerous circles, groups, "parties" and "factions" of most diverse and bizarre types. The struggle among them often resulted in inconsistencies with the essential points of Uvarov's triad. The attitude of various conservative groups towards the principle of "nationality" was most complicated. The last and the most "innovative" element of Uvarov's triad was a "sacred cow" of Slavophilism and Katkov's circle. Yet it was also criticized, and most severely - by V.D. Skaryatin and N.N. Yumatov, editors of the Vest' newspaper and masterminds of nobiliary conservatism. Another element of Uvarov's triad - "orthodoxy" - was not criticized openly. However, the attitude of conservatives towards it was not as unambiguous as it might seem at first glance. The central element of Uvarov's triad - "autocracy" - also underwent a peculiar, not always evident transformation in the conservatives' views. Post-reform conservatism was in fact broader than Uvarov's triad - both because of its heterogeneity and because of its belonging to an era that was far from conservative. All this ultimately led the followers of post-reform Russian conservatives to support the Progressive bloc.

AB - The notion of "Russian conservatism" is commonly associated with the support of so called Uvarov's triad. However, as noted even by Soviet researchers, many individual conservatives were not in the mainstream of the government policy. At the same time, the conservatives did not constitute a single whole. United by their general commitment to historical continuity, they often understood it in fundamentally different ways, focusing on various aspects: national, class, institutional, state or religious. As a consequence, they disintegrated into numerous circles, groups, "parties" and "factions" of most diverse and bizarre types. The struggle among them often resulted in inconsistencies with the essential points of Uvarov's triad. The attitude of various conservative groups towards the principle of "nationality" was most complicated. The last and the most "innovative" element of Uvarov's triad was a "sacred cow" of Slavophilism and Katkov's circle. Yet it was also criticized, and most severely - by V.D. Skaryatin and N.N. Yumatov, editors of the Vest' newspaper and masterminds of nobiliary conservatism. Another element of Uvarov's triad - "orthodoxy" - was not criticized openly. However, the attitude of conservatives towards it was not as unambiguous as it might seem at first glance. The central element of Uvarov's triad - "autocracy" - also underwent a peculiar, not always evident transformation in the conservatives' views. Post-reform conservatism was in fact broader than Uvarov's triad - both because of its heterogeneity and because of its belonging to an era that was far from conservative. All this ultimately led the followers of post-reform Russian conservatives to support the Progressive bloc.

KW - conservatism

KW - nationalism

KW - Uvarov's triad

KW - monarchy

KW - slavophilism

KW - orthodoxy

KW - autocracy

KW - nationality

KW - консерватизм

KW - национализм

KW - уваровская триада

KW - монархия

KW - славянофильство

KW - православие

KW - самодержавие

KW - народность

UR - http://vestnik.spbu.ru/html18/s02/s02v4/04.pdf

U2 - 10.21638/11701/spbu02.2018.404

DO - 10.21638/11701/spbu02.2018.404

M3 - Article

VL - 63

SP - 1031

EP - 1046

JO - ВЕСТНИК САНКТ-ПЕТЕРБУРГСКОГО УНИВЕРСИТЕТА. ИСТОРИЯ

JF - ВЕСТНИК САНКТ-ПЕТЕРБУРГСКОГО УНИВЕРСИТЕТА. ИСТОРИЯ

SN - 1812-9323

IS - 4

ER -