ABSTRACT
This chapter offers few observations on some particular aspects of the concept of policing or disciplining that are implicit in interpretation of the Well Ordered Police State in the 18th century. It presents features that shed light on the dynamics of the process of "disciplining" society for the "modern" world. In Western and Central Europe the traditional norms and ways began to disintegrate as a result of developments which are usually considered to mark the end of the Middle Ages: the Reformation and the wars of religion, the impact of printing, the geographic explorations, and, finally, the institutional political and economic changes associated with the early modern state and early capitalism. The chapter summarises the evolution of 18th century Russian publishing as Professor G. Marker tells it with much quantitative detail on the basis of both published and archival sources. Russian individualism did not appeal to the political and legal principles that we associate more specifically with the English paradigm.
