RUSSIAN BUREAUCRACY: INCORRUPTIBLE SERVICE AND PERSONAL INTEREST (FROM THE HISTORY OF PRE-REVOLUTIONARY RUSSIA)

Veniamin Vakhmistrov; Pavel Topilkin; Alexey Doilnitsyn

doi:10.61260/2074-1626-2026-2-19-25

UDC 343.2/.7

RUSSIAN BUREAUCRACY: INCORRUPTIBLE SERVICE AND PERSONAL INTEREST (FROM THE HISTORY OF PRE-REVOLUTIONARY RUSSIA)

Published in LAW. SAFETY. EMERGENCY SITUATIONS · Volume 2026, Issue 2 · Pages 19–25 · Rubric: THEORETICAL AND HISTORICAL LEGAL SCIENCES

DOI: https://doi.org/10.61260/2074-1626-2026-2-19-25

Received: 03.03.2026 Accepted: 11.04.2026 Published: 10.07.2026

Authors

Veniamin Vakhmistrov

Pavel Topilkin

SPIN

Alexey Doilnitsyn

Veniamin Vakhmistrov

Academic degree: candidate of philosophical sciences

Science rang: docent

Military Medical Academy named after S.M. Kirov Associate professor · Department of Humanities and Socioeconomic Disciplines · St. Petersburg

Pavel Topilkin

Saint-Petersburg university of State fire service of EMERCOM of Russia lecturer · department of forensics and engineering and technical expertise · Russian Federation · Saint-Petersburg

SPIN

Alexey Doilnitsyn

Academic degree: candidate of jurisprudence sciences

Science rang: docent

Saint-Petersburg university of State fire service of EMERCOM of Russia deputy head · Russian Federation · Saint-Petersburg

Saint-Petersburg university of State fire service of EMERCOM of Russia associate professor · department of theory and history of state and law · Russian Federation

ABSTRACT

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.

KEYWORDS

corruption, corrupt personality, anti-corruption resistance, bureaucracy, public administration

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Vakhmistrov V. P., Topilkin P. S., Doilnitsyn A. B. RUSSIAN BUREAUCRACY: INCORRUPTIBLE SERVICE AND PERSONAL INTEREST (FROM THE HISTORY OF PRE-REVOLUTIONARY RUSSIA) // LAW. SAFETY. EMERGENCY SITUATIONS. 2026. no. 2. pp. 19-25. DOI: https://doi.org/10.61260/2074-1626-2026-2-19-25. (Date of access 26.10.2026).

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Veniamin Vakhmistrov, Topilkin P. S., Doilnitsyn A. B.. "RUSSIAN BUREAUCRACY: INCORRUPTIBLE SERVICE AND PERSONAL INTEREST (FROM THE HISTORY OF PRE-REVOLUTIONARY RUSSIA)." LAW. SAFETY. EMERGENCY SITUATIONS 2026.2 (2026): 19-25. DOI: https://doi.org/10.61260/2074-1626-2026-2-19-25.

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Vakhmistrov V. P., Topilkin P. S., Doilnitsyn A. B. (2026). RUSSIAN BUREAUCRACY: INCORRUPTIBLE SERVICE AND PERSONAL INTEREST (FROM THE HISTORY OF PRE-REVOLUTIONARY RUSSIA). LAW. SAFETY. EMERGENCY SITUATIONS, 2026(2), 19-25. https://doi.org/10.61260/2074-1626-2026-2-19-25

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Veniamin Vakhmistrov, Topilkin P. S., Doilnitsyn A. B.. "RUSSIAN BUREAUCRACY: INCORRUPTIBLE SERVICE AND PERSONAL INTEREST (FROM THE HISTORY OF PRE-REVOLUTIONARY RUSSIA)." LAW. SAFETY. EMERGENCY SITUATIONS 2026, no. 2 (2026): 19-25. https://doi.org/10.61260/2074-1626-2026-2-19-25.

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