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The system of local self-government under government of A. V. Kolchak (The Case of Perm province) [PDF]
The article examines the problems of the development of the system of local selfgovernment bodies during the establishment of power by A. V. Kolchak in the Perm province. The great interest of scientists in the history of the Civil War made it possible
V. I. Teterin
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Forms of charitable activities of the Saratov Zemstvo: Social protection of childhood (1870–1910s) [PDF]
The article presents a case study of one of the important and least researched areas of self-government bodies’ social policy – charitable activities of the Zemstvo in Saratov province.
Morozova, Elena Nikolajevna
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Tver Zemstvo and Governor A. N. Somov: Features of Interaction [PDF]
The article analyzes the interaction of the Tver governor A. N. Somov with zemstvo institutions at the end of the 19th century. The issue of interaction between authorities and local self-government, independent from each other in accordance with the ...
Aleksei E. Andreev
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Decentralized response as a pandemic second‐best: The case of Russia
Abstract Centralized state response is almost universally considered as the first best option for managing pandemics. This paper argues that in reality, states fall short of this ideal. Knowledge problems hinder the government's disease acknowledgement, resource allocation and feedback, while compulsion, political predation, and corruption exacerbate ...
Vladimir V. Maltsev
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Abstract This article looks to the societal and imperial margins to examine attitudes towards social welfare provision in the final decades of the Russian Empire. Drawing on archival material from the Empire's Estliand province (now northern Estonia), the article focuses on the self‐representation of single mothers and official discussions of abandoned
Siobhán Hearne
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Lower‐Class Reading in Late Imperial Russia
Abstract This article demonstrates widespread engagement of lower‐class people with the written word in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century Russian Empire, in rural and urban locales, in homes, workplaces, and social spaces. We explore how lower‐class people read: the daily habits, personal relationships, and social spaces that shaped ...
Sarah Badcock, Felix Cowan
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School, Empire, and the Provincial Roots of Civil Activism in Late Nineteenth‐Century Russia
Abstract In spring 1879, news reached the Russian Ministry of Education that students from several Real Schools in the Russian Empire’s western provinces were planning to send a coordinated petition to the Minister of Education, asking for permission to enroll in university. The petition initiative was arranged in secrecy and involved more than a dozen
Alex Valdman
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Some reflections on the 20th anniversary of the Federal Law “On the General Principles of the Organization of Local Self-Government in the Russian Federation” [PDF]
Introduction. Legal regulation in the fi eld of local self-government has been carried out by the key Federal Law “On the General Principles of the Organization of Local Self-Government in the Russian Federation" for twenty years.
Mikheeva, Tatyana Nikolaevna +1 more
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Zemstvo Taxes and Duties as a Component of Zemstvo Selfgovernment Financial Independence
The article is aimed to analyze zemstvo legislation of the Russian Empire in the second half of the ХІХ century and practical activities of zemstvo self-government bodies to establish and collect zemstvo taxes and perform duties.
А. І. Козаченко
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