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This monograph is the first comprehensive study of the formation and development of the concept of personal rights and freedoms in the Russian Empire in the second half of 19th and early 20th century. It undertakes a systematic analysis of the problem of rights and freedoms of the individual in light of the theoretical developments by Russian law theorists, and the implementation of their ideas in the form of legislative acts and bills which establishing the rights of Russian citizens. Included material shows how the constitutional reform of the beginning of the 20th century, purported to secure political and civil rights for the subjects of the Russian Empire, also helped modernize the Russian state and its legal system, to form constitutional sense of justice.

This book brings together a wide range of sources and is addressed to lawyers, historians, researchers in other social sciences, as well as all those interested in human rights.