Недостатки административного управления царской администрации в Дербентской губернии по данным ревизии 1860 года

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of issues related to the practice of administrative management in Dagestan, in particular in the Derbent province in the middle of the 19th century. The shortcomings of administrative management in terms of office work, the uncertainty of court proceedings, the reasons for the reluctance of police officers to investigate certain crimes (a social factor), the inefficiency of state property management, the shortcomings in the tax system are identified, and the reasons for the low level of medicine, problems of urban economy and trade are analyzed. As a result, the political flexibility of the tsarist administration in relation to the population of the Derbent district is noted. The author analyzes the degree of influence of the adats on the public life and self-consciousness of the population, the persistent observance of archaic norms of customary law, despite the political and administrative presence, to a greater or lesser extent, of the tsarist administration in various socie-ties of the Derbent district. There is a socio-political difference in the public consciousness that exists between the population of the region and the new government. The article involves the study of a complex of issues related to the level of social development of the population of the Derbent district of Dagestan in Russia in the middle of the 19th century.