Local Gov

Question 1

Alex 11

Answer 1

Mirs was the system of government that ran the peasant’s day to day life.

3rd march 1861 emancipated 23 million serfs

Summer 1873-4 over 40000 ‘going to the people’

Fail to revolutionaries/ gain interest in democracy

1st jan 1864 zemstvo set up as regional governments

1970 rural school boards – 23000 by 1880

Question 2

A III

Answer 2

Land Captains Law (April 12, 1889)

Answer to minister of the interior

Mirs banned

Question 3

N II

Answer 3

1905 -open 43 provinces with functioning zemstvos.

1917, - 2,000 zemstvo assemblies.

More equal reperesentation - 1913,
gentry -60%
30%, peasants
urban residents 10%.

1914, over 5,000 schools for 1 million children,

Question 4

Lenin

Answer 4

Councils (Soviets) replaced the Zemstva.

1928, there were 60000 Selsoviets
5 to 15 members.

The Gorsoviet was an urban council.

The Possoviet was a district council within a city

Question 5

Stalin

Answer 5

Soviet Union comprised 15 sovety, 6 krais, and numerous oblasts and autonomous regions

490 individuals served as party secretaries at the local level.

Question 6

Khsrusvs

Answer 6

May 1957 - 105 regional coucnils Sovnarkhozy (Regional Economic Councils)

‘Comrades Courts’ from 1954 to 1964. Limited voting

Communist Party membership expanded significantly, growing from 6 million in 1954 to 11 million by 1964.