Samara Journal of ScienceSamara Journal of Science2309-43702782-3016Samara State University of Social Sciences and Education3448810.17816/snv201984213Research ArticleThe Social Darwinist ideology in American domestic policy at the turn of the XIX-XX centuriesMukhataevPavel Nikolaevich<p>teacher of history and social theory</p>paf028@yandex.ruGymnasium № 133 of Samara Urban Okrug291120198418819402062020Copyright © 2019, Mukhataev P.N.2019<p>This paper presents an attempt to analyze the interrelation between American domestic policy and the Social Darwinist ideology at the turn of the XIXXX centuries. Soviet and Russian historiography presents a deep analysis of socio-economic and political processes in that period in terms of criticism of liberal ideology and market economics. Significant social stratification was explained by insufficiently developed socially directed normative base, illegal interaction between representatives of large business and politicians, the purpose of which was personal enrichment, etc. In general, the economic and political system of the United States in the late XIX early XX centuries was criticized from Russian scientists. In Soviet literature the conclusion was made about the insolvency of bourgeois ideology, with elements of criticism of Social Darwinism as a minor component of this ideology. American historiography considers the subject of our study more wholly. Foreign historiography, basically, analyzes the connection of American domestic policy with the activities of financial magnates, who were becoming a new serious power in American politics. This paper attempts to explain the connection between the American domestic policy and the Social Darwinist discourse, which was an undoubted part of the intellectual and daily life of citizens in that historical period. The author points to the significant influence of the Social Darwinist ideology in the adoption of key inner-political decisions by the government of the United States.</p>Social DarwinismAmerican domestic policy turn of XIX–XX centuriesG. SpenserA. CarnegieL.F. Ward.W.G. SamnerG. ClevelandJ. FiskeН. ZinnV.P. Mozolinnatural lawК. FrickA. SchlezingerJ. BrewerC. Cooleyprotectionist policyR. Hofstadterlaissez-faireсоциал-дарвинизмвнутренняя политика США конца ХIХ – начала ХХ векаГ. СпенсерЭ. КарнегиЛ. УордУ. СамнерГ. КливлендДж. ФискеГ. ЗиннВ.П. Мозолинестественный законК. ФрикА. ШлезингерДж. БрюэрЧ. КулипротекционизмР. Хофстедтерlaissez-faire[История США. Т. 2 / под ред. Г.Н. Севостьянова М.: Наука, 1985. 599 с.][Зинн Г. Американская империя. С 1492 года до наших дней. М.: Алгоритм, 2014. 752 с.][Шлезингер А. Циклы американской истории. М.: Прогресс, 1992. 688 с.][Cleveland G. Presidential Problems. New York. The Century CO. 1904. 281 p.][Jeffreys-Jones R. Violence in American History: Plug Uglies in the Progressive Era / Perspectives in American History; Editors Donald Fleming and Bernard Bailyn. Vol. VIII. 1974. 583 p.][Chamberlin W.J. The assault on Mr. Frick // Harper’s Weekly. Journal of Civilization. New York: Saturday, August 6, 1892. P. 749–750.][Carnegie A. The Gospel of Wealth and Other Timely Essays. New York: The Century CO, 1900. 305 p.][Спенсер Г. Основания социологии: Данные социологии. Индукция социологии. Пер. с англ. Изд. 3-е. М.: Книжный дом «Либроком», 2013. 440 с.][Спенсер Г. Личность и государство / пер. с англ. Челябинск: Социум, 2006. 205 с.][Мозолин В.П. Корпорации, монополии и право в США. М.: Издательство Московского государственного университета, 1966. 398 с.][Samner W.G. Protectionism. The ism wich teaches that waste makes wealth. Henry Holt and Company. New York, 1883. 172 p.][Cleveland G. Speech at Princenton’s Sesquicentennial Celebration. Washington, 1896. 8 p.][Samner W.G. What Social Classes Owe to Each Other. Caldwell, Idaho: The Caxton Printers, Ltd., 1974. 145 p.][Fiske J. American Political Ideas. Boston and New York Hough Mifflin Company. 1911. 196 p.][Hofstadter R. Social Darwinism in American Thought. Beacon Press Boston. 1992. 248 p.][Ward L.F. Applied Sociology. A Treatise on the conscious improvement of society by society. Ginn and company. Boston, 1906. 384 p.]