местное самоуправление

Based on the analysis of publications of departmental journals “Zemsky Delo” and “Zemsky Worker”, the author of the article tried to reconstruct several stages of development of political ideas of zemstvo’s workers and employees in the period from June 1917 to June 1918. As a result, conclusions were drawn about the development of political ideas from the concept of non-partisan and “supra-class democracy” to attempts to justify the integration of zemstvos into the system of trade union and cooperative movement and Soviet authorities.

Based on the analysis of the statistics on the alteration of the administrativeterritorial division of Saratov region, the historical process of municipalities enlargement and the change of number of rural and urban settlements is being examined and compared. The examination of rural resettlement is relevant in connection with the reorganization of the system of local government in the Russian Federation.