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Monarchists-Narodniks Against Constitutionalists: the Concept of “Tsarist Autocracy” by N.D.Obleukhov
The article examines the views of a prominent right-wing monarchist figure, Comrade Chairman of the Russian People's Union named after Mikhail Archangel N.D.Obleukhov about the current state and ideal of the state structure of Russia, set out in the program article «Tsarist Autocracy as a bulwark of people's freedom and equality», published by him under the pseudonym P.Ukhtubuzhsky in three issues of the daily right-wing monarchical newspaper «Russian Banner» in December 1915. As a key feature of N.D.Obleukhov's article is determined its target audience – the broad strata of the population, to whom the author seeks to convey the ideals of the monarchical state system. It is noted that the ideal way of government in Russia N.D.Obleukhov characterizes as «a widely and harmoniously developed people's self-government with an autocratic Tsar at its head». As a specific feature of N.D.Oblekhov's views stands out his use of the concepts of «people's monarchy» and «monarchist populists», which clearly demonstrate the desire among some Russian monarchists in the pre-revolutionary period for broad popular self-government, combined with unlimited sole power.
Keywords: N.D.Obleukhov; “Russian Banner”; Russian People's Union named after Mikhail the Archangel; Union of the Russian People; The Right-Monarchist Movement; The Black Hundred; black-hundredists; Monarchists-Narodniks; People's Monarchy; Tsarist Autocracy