MODERN HISTORIOGRAPHY OF MUNICIPAL SELF-GOVERNMENT IN RUSSIA IN THE 2ND HALF OF THE 19TH – THE 20TH CENTURIES

Abstract

The article deals with the modern historiography of city self-government in Russia in 1871–1914, the most important period in the history of city councils and boards in Russia, starting with the city reform of 1870 and ending with the World War I breaking out. The author identifies the most significant studies of this issue that have appeared since the early 1990s. The paper considers the researchers’ assessments of the municipal reforms of 1870 and 1892 in Russia, their advantages and disadvantages, as well as the activities of city governments and their results. The author identifies groups of studies devoted to certain problems of municipal self-government in Russia in 1871–1914, notes the growth of research devoted to the study of this issue on the material of a particular region of the Russian Empire, as well as an increase in the number of conferences and forums on the history of Russian municipal self-government in the considered in work period. The author notes new plots and approaches to the consideration of municipal self-government that have appeared in modern historiography in comparison with its previous period.