The formation of absolutism in Russian state

During the period of absolutism, a lot of attention was paid to strengthening the state apparatus.Paul Dukes < The making of Russian absolutism, 1613-1801, - Longman, 1990, - 240 p.Prerequisites of formation and legalization of absolutism.Absolutism social reform state law.In this period took place an intense process of subordination of the church to the state.At the beginning of the XVIII century absolutism received the legislative confirmation.As a result, more than 800 thousand peasant moved into the category of state.The Senate had had functions of the supreme state power in the case of absence of the monarch.The Russian empire was thirty times larger than that of France.A new class of educated Russians emerged.