An historiographic based research analysis of the corporate self-organizing process and formation that developed among Ural's provincial officials in the late 19th and early 20th Century in Russia.

Table of Contents

Abstract; Foreword; Introduction; 1. Corruption component of the corporate self-organization among the Ural officials late in the 19th - early in the 20th centuries; 1.1 A very limited possibility to use official statistics of malfeasance; 1.2 The principle of "administrative guarantee" and the Ural provincial boards' activity; 2. Projects and attempts at legal corporate self-organization of the Ural officialdom late in the 19th and early in the 20th centuries; 2.1 The financial position of officials in the Ural provincial administrations as a reason for their own legal corporate organizations; 2.2 Attempts at forming "the clubs of officials" in the Ural region; 3. Is there any basis to extrapolate the results of our study to late Imperial Russia as a whole?; 3.1 Corruption component of the corporate self-organization in the materials of senatorial inspections; 3.2 Attempts to form a political party during the First Russian revolution; Conclusios; Bibliography.