Abstract
The article is devoted to the development and correction of the village reform project, one of the least studied reforms of Pyotr A. Stolypin. Based on the documents of the Council of Ministers, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the State Duma of the Russian Empire, the author reconstructs the process of creating a draft law of the village reform and making amendments to it during 1905–08. It is shown that this bill was part of the complex Stolypin reforms of local self-government and was developed in compliance with the legislative acts of the tsarist government of 1903 and 1904, taking into account the views of the local committees of the Special Meeting on the Needs of the Agricultural Industry. There are several versions of the draft law: the initial one, which was discussed at the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Council of Ministers in 1905–06; the draft law for submission to the Second State Duma in 1907; the draft law revised in the Council for Local Economy Affairs which was submitted to the Third State Duma in 1908. The article considers the discussions in the executive bodies and at the congress of the United Nobility regarding the most important articles of the draft law on property qualification, women’s suffrage, and inclusion in the village regulatory body without elections.
Highlights
Based on the documents of the Council of Ministers, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the State Duma of the Russian Empire, the author reconstructs the process of creating a draft law of the village reform and making amendments to it during 1905–08
There are several versions of the draft law: the initial one, which was discussed at the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Council of Ministers in 1905–06; the draft law for submission to the Second State Duma in 1907; the draft law revised in the Council for Local Economy Affairs which was submitted to the Third State Duma in 1908
By the time of its submission to the Third Duma, in comparison with the version of 1907, the draft law had been amended as follows: age qualification was raised from 21 to 25 years; the term of owning real estate within the framework of residence qualification was increased from 1 year to 3 years; the list of persons who could represent women was clarified; membership of large proprietors in the village assemblies was guaranteed due to the so-called personal qualification; the list of persons who did not have the right to participate in self-government was expanded
Summary
Various aspects of the Stolypin reforms are reflected in a significant number of publications.. The Stolypin reforms in the field of local self-government are still little studied. The complex of these reforms is touched upon in the works of K. Each of these reforms has not been studied in full (from the development of the project to its political fate), there are separate works devoted to the volost and zemstvo reforms.. Among the Stolypin reforms of local self-government, the village reform is the blank spot in historiography. In 2011, the text of the draft law on the reform of village administration was published among other documents related to the legislative legacy of P. The process of its drafting and correction during 1905–08
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