Saint-Petersburg, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Saint-Petersburg university of State fire service of EMERCOM of Russia (department of theory and history of state and law, associate professor)
Russian Federation
The article is devoted to a comparative analysis of corruption motivation and personal determinants of corruption behavior among Russian officials in pre-revolutionary Russia. The purpose of this article is to explore the causal relationships that shaped the corruption mentality among Russian officials at various levels during the consolidation of autocracy in Russia in the late 19th century. The research methodology is based on the dialectical unity of descriptive, formal-legal, historical, comparative, and systemic methods of knowledge. The results of the study consist in identifying the polycausal nature of the corruption behavior of the pre-revolutionary bureaucracy, which is mediated by individual value-oriented preferences. The scientific novelty lies in the choice of the source base, which includes both modern scientific publications and pre-revolutionary ones. The authors implicitly suggest that the examples provided should be considered as historical illustrations of the social differentiation of officials based on the criterion of anti-corruption resilience.
corruption, corrupt personality, anti-corruption resistance, bureaucracy, public administration
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