RUDN Journal of Public AdministrationRUDN Journal of Public Administration2312-83132411-1228Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University)2125510.22363/2312-8313-2018-5-4-433-443Research ArticleThe liberal reforms of Alexander II and the presentStolyarovN. S.<p>-</p>sns147@mail.ruPeoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University)151220185443344307062019Copyright © 2018, Stolyarov N.S.2018<p>The article is devoted to the analysis of liberal reforms of Alexander II. A special place is given to the development of parliamentarism, the creation of an effective system of independent financial control. The retrospective view in the era of Alexander II is compared with the analysis of modern liberal transformations. And this comparison, alas, is not in favor of the current liberal reformers. The effectiveness of the transformation initiated by Alexander II, confirmed by time. Many of his initiatives have not lost their relevance in modern conditions.</p>parliamentarismliberal reformsfinancial controlcity self-governmentobjective and subjective preconditions of reformsliberalism and pseudo-liberalismпарламентаризмлиберальные реформыфинансовый контрольгородское самоуправлениеобъективные и субъективные предпосылки реформлиберализм и псевдолиберализм[Kurakina L.M., Mironova E.A. Rossijskie politicheskie lidery v vospriyatii sovremennogo studenchestva (po materialam regional’nykh issledovanij) // Fundamental’nye issledovaniya. 2015. № 2-23. S. 5245-5252.][Aleksandr II. Tragediya reformatora: lyudi v sud’bakh reform, reformy v sud’bakh lyudej : sbornik statej. SPb.: Izd-vo Evropejskogo universiteta v Sankt-Peterburge, 2012. S. 282.][Dostoevskij o liberalizme v Rossii. URL: hnttp://maxpark.com/community/88/ content/5658550/.][Zakharova L. Velikie reformy 1860-1870-kh godov: povorotnyj punkt rossijskoj istorii? // Otechestvennaya istoriya. 2005. № 4.][Neistovyj Zhirinovskij: Politicheskaya biografiya lidera LDPR. M.: ZAO izdatel’stvo Tsentropoligraf, 2016.]