Участие представителей общественности в разработке реформы Временного правительства в области местного самоуправления

Abstract

The paper considers the prerequisites and general trends in the development of local government in Russia during the Provisional Government and the issue of participation of the organized public in the reform activities of the Provisional Government, aimed at reorganizing the system of local government. The victory of the February Revolution raised the question of how the government in the center and in the localities will work. Provisional Government took a course towards building an updated system of municipal government and indicated this in the Declaration of March 3, 1917. On March 23 Counsel on the reform of local government and administration under the Ministry of the Interior was formed. It was engaged in legal support of the local government reform. Experienced zemstvo and city actors, as well as notable representatives of the scientific community, took part in the work of the Counsel, thanks to which the Provisional Government managed to achieve certain success in the formation of the beginnings of a new Russian civil society, built on a system of full-fledged realization of the rights and freedoms of citizens through local authorities. However, due to the slowness and certain actual problems, the reorganization was not finished.