This book is a generalizing study on the duration of the Slavophiles on the eve of the reform of 1861. The author reveals the class essence of this direction of Russian social thought in the transitional era from feudalism to capitalism. The book shows the Slavophiles' desire to carry out "from above" the abolition of serfdom, capitalist transformations in the field of economics and bourgeois reforms in the social and political spheres while maintaining the monarchy.