Формирование гражданских исполнительных комитетов в Баталпашинском отделе Кубан-ской области и основные проблемы их деятельности в 1917 году

Abstract

The article covers the development of new administrations on the area of the Kuban region's Batal-pashinsky department following the February Revolution of 1917. The study focuses on elected lo-cal authorities - civil executive committees - which were established in the region immediately fol-lowing the revolutionary events. It should be emphasized that, as in the rest of the country, an unu-sual system of dual authority has emerged in the Batalpashinsky department, with administrative structures in the shape of government commissars and village atamans coexisting with the newly elected authorities. The work focuses on the key issues encountered by civil executive committees during their brief presence in the region. It was determined that the most difficult issue was the land. Within a few months, the new elected authorities, for the most part, have moved quickly from attempts to maintain the status quo in land ownership to broad support for land self-seizures of both state and private holdings.