Bribes in the Mentality of Pre-Revolutionary Russian Officials

This article aims to provide a scientific understanding of bribery as an invariant of the bureaucratic mentality in pre-revolutionary Russia, which emerged as a result of the interplay of a number of socially significant factors of a political, legal, economic and sociocultural nature. The relevance of the article is determined by the high adaptability of bribery to various historical conditions and the need for its adequate interpretation. The methods used in the study are a dialectical combination of historical-descriptive, formal-legal and analytical approaches. The research results provide a deeper understanding of the genesis and determination of such a socially complex and controversial phenomenon as bribery.