Throughout the process of the emergence and development of mankind have changed the country, the population of the city, but the form of the apparatus of power, developed for centuries, entrenched and have been further developed.One of these forms was absolutism.It is a power unit in which the supreme ruler had its entirety, without restriction by anyone or anything.
"The Golden Age of Absolutism"
main features of absolutism appeared before our era and have been tested in the monarchies of the ancient East.It was there, in any states there was a phenomenon that went down in history as the principle of oriental despotism.To her sides expressed concerns disregard human person, all the aspirations are directed to the prosperity of the state.The monarch, who heads the country, often deified and was for the common people unquestioned authority.However, his power was so absolute that wealth, social status and living could lose any of its members.With the collapse of ancient civilizations of Asia and Africa, there is unlimited power in Europe.There's absolutism - is the desire of the rulers to build and centralize their countries in the first stages of its existence, it did play a positive role, but over time the need for it disappears.Nevertheless, European monarchs, knowing all the charm of autocratic rule, do not hurry to part with it.So the Middle Ages - this is truly a "golden age" for absolutism.
At the beginning of modern times with the development of education and literacy, many people began to weigh overprotection on the part of the state, political absolutism is becoming less popular.Heads of State, trying to maintain their power, made concessions, but they, in fact, were null and void and in no way satisfying neither the populace nor the nascent bourgeois class of owners.The famous series of bourgeois European revolyutsiy16-18 centuries ended the undivided domination of absolutism in the political practice of the European countries.However, absolutism is too early to go to the front of the stage of world politics.
Metamorphoses
absolutism absolutism - is an attempt to control everything without the possibility of criticism - reanimated in the 20th century.Of course, we had gone monarchical dynasty, but they were replaced, however, and perhaps more ambitious projects absolutist.Arisen totalitarian states in Germany and the Soviet Union brought the degree of concentration of unlimited power to its peak.Totalitarianism has become a kind of absolutism, in which the formula is valid, "I think, otherwise you're the enemy."Absolutism as a political regime operates now, suffice it to recall Saudi Arabia.This kingdom, the monarch is not limited in its actions by any political institution, and is free to do as he pleases, this kind of oriental despotism in the 21st century.
In summary we can say that absolutism - it is a transitional form of the political regime, which coped with their tasks, gone.But at certain points he appears again, rose from obscurity like a phoenix, it is in the transitional moments in history when it is necessary to mobilize all the resources of the country in a short period.
