THE IMAGE OF A PROVINCIAL POLICEMAN IN THE LIBERAL JOURNALISM OF 1905-1907 (ON THE MATERIALS OF THE URAL REGION)
The aim of the article is to reveal the image of a provincial policeman in the liberal journalism during the First Russian Revolution. The author has studied a set of periodicals of the beginning of the 20th century, primarily liberal newspapers: "Permsky Kray", "Ural Region" and "Vyatka Life". The revealed ideological construct was prepared with the help of the methods of historical science, first of all historical-systematic and historical-comparative. As a result, it was concluded that a policeman was exposed by the liberal press as a lazy, rude, violent and alcoholic individual. The key "motive" of liberal publications was the violence of police officers towards innocent people. At the same time, the description of a «guardian of order» was often accompanied by ironic and satirical elements. In the article, the problem of the image of a provincial policeman, formed by the liberal press of the Russian empire, is considered for the first time. A whole block of published sources has been put into scientific circulation.