Szabolcs-Szatmár-Beregi levéltári évkönyv 18. (Nyíregyháza, 2008)

Tanulmányok távoli és közeli tájak múltjából - Czövek István: Reform, hadsereg, politika a 19. századi Oroszországban

//. Sándor orosz cár (1818-1881) ISTVÁN CZÖVEK: Reform, Army, Politics in XIX. Century Russia After 1861 there were only two politicians, who could be called 'liberal' working in Russian governmental circles. One of them was D. A. Miljutyin and the other one was Grand Duke Kosztantyin Nyikolajevics, the president of the Council of State. Absolutism taught Alexander II to treat people as a simple tool with the sole task of carrying out commands. No wonder that the nomination of the talented and well-educated D. A. Miljutyin as Minister of War was postponed for such a long time as he considered loyalty to the tsar as important as military expertise. Miljutyin even criticized the intervention of 1849 by the Russian army in Hungary. Moreover, he disapproved of the officers recording their memories in their diaries. From the time D. A. Miljutyin was appointed Minister of War on, he was engaged on moderate liberal grounds in the internal affairs of the '70s of Russia.