Жолудов М. В. Либеральная партия в политической системе Великобритании XIX века: формы и особенности развития

The article examines the features of the development of the Liberal Party of Great Britain in the XIX^th century. In its development, the Liberal Party was going through several stages, each of which revealed a close connection with general historical changes in Great Britain. The paper argues that the ability of the country’s ruling elite to switch to a policy of liberal transformations in time allowed it to overcome a serious socio-political crisis and save Great Britain from revolution. Particular attention is paid to the study of the influence of the parliamentary reform of 1832 on the formation of the party structure. The merit of the liberals was that they were able to adapt in a smooth, evolutionary-reformist way, without affecting the very foundations of public order, the state-legal institutions of Great Britain to the new historical conditions that arose as a result of the industrial revolution. Using flexible compromise methods of management and social policy in relations both with the landowning aristocracy and with the middle and lower strata of the British society, the liberals managed to maintain a fairly high stability of society, smooth out social conflicts that are so frequent in other countries of Western Europe of the XIX^th century. The author emphasizes that by the end of the XIX^th century, the British liberals managed to create a mass political party of the modern type.

Keywords: history of Great Britain, XIX century, Liberal Party of Great Britain, parliamentary reform of 1832, Whigs, radicals.

For citation:

Zholudov M. V. The Liberal Party in the Political System of the Great Britain in the XIX^th Century: Forms and Features of Development // Issledovaniya zarubezhnoy istorii [Studies in Foreign History]. 2023. Vol. 3. P. 280–296. DOI: 10.55000/SemConf.2023.3.3.020