摘要：The authors, based on the publications of the journal “Russkoe bogatstvo”, consider the views and assessments of legal-populist authors on the problems of parliamentarism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in Great Britain, France, Germany and Austria-Hungary.The study of the experience of Western parliamentarism by representatives of the socio-political thought of Russia is intensified at the beginning of the 20th century in connection with the formation of a multi-party system and a Duma monarchy in our country. The publicists of “Russkoe bogatstvo” considered it useful to use the experience of this experience in the process of forming a constitutional state in Russia that guarantees civil and political human rights. The legal-populist authors called for taking into account and adopting the positive experience of Western states, the political structure of which provided the working people within the framework of the existing system with real opportunities to defend their economic, political, ethnic interests and raise the standard of living. This was a typical point of view of the reformist populists, whose worldview contained both socialist and liberal elements. The experience of parliamentarism in Great Britain and France seemed to them more valuable in comparison with the experience of Austria-Hungary and Germany.The publicists of “Russkoe bogatstvo” were close to an objective assessment of the realities of the social and political life of Western countries in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and led their readers to the idea that the main direction of the state's development should be progressive, consist of socio-economic and political legal, not revolutionary transformations.The study shows that the study of the ideas of parliamentarism by legal populists still has its relevance from a practical and scientific point of view.
