№1-2020-11
Sagimbaev A. V.
THE ROLE OF THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY IN TRANSFORMING BRITAIN’S COLONIAL MACHINERY DURING THE INTERWAR PERIOD
The article is devoted to the consideration of certain aspects of the development of the British Conservative party in the interwar period, as well as to the analysis of their influence on the transformation of the British colonial mechanism. By the end of the First World War, the British political elite remained largely committed to the principles of the imperialist ideology that took shape in the last decades of the nineteenth century. Despite the victory won in the war by the British political leadership at the turn of the 1910s-1920s. had to face a number of serious challenges that affected various segments of the Imperial organization and manifested themselves in the spheres of economy, politics and ideology. Changes in the organizational structure and ideological priorities of the Conservative party, which remained the main element of the British political system during the interwar decades, were an important factor in influencing the decision-making mechanism in the sphere of colonial strategy.
Keywords: colonial politics, political system, electoral reform, Conservative party, «new conservatism».
Academician I.G. Petrovskii Bryansk State University (Russia)
