The legal basis for the process of reorganization and democratization of local authorities in the period of the Provisional Government (spring-summer 1917) in the Middle Volga region

Abstract

The article discusses the process of renewal and democratization of local authority bodies in the Middle Volga region after the February Revolution of 1917 in Russia. The author analyses the documents of the Provisional Government on the organization of local authorities and analyses the archival sources on the topic of elections to local self-government authorities, showing the way the legal basis for central government lags behind the changes taking place in the region.