Tokarev N.V. Participation of municipal institutions of Tambov governorate in realization of Stolypin agrarian reform

Abstract: The subject of this research is the work of municipal institutions under the conditions of modernization of late-Imperial Russia, and the level of efficiency of their cooperation with the governorate government authorities. On the example of Tambov governorate, the author examines the types of cooperation of municipal and government authorities in the context of Stolypin agrarian reform: propaganda of agrarian laws, stimulation of plot land ownership, and development of educational system in place of individual settlement. After 1909, the mutual efforts of Tambov municipalities and the government in execution of Stolypin modernization have revealed in implementation of the new agricultural technologies among peasants.  The author uses the principles of objectiveness of historicism and scientificity applied by the virtue of systemic approach, which was implemented in determination of the role of municipalities within the framework of the country’s agrarian reforms. It is stated the municipalities of Tambov governorate entered the path of cooperation with the government by promoting the agrarian laws, providing financial support to the individual peasant farmers, developing education in the areas of isolated farmsteads. The conclusion is made that there were disagreements between the government and the public workers related to the goals, priorities, directions and subjects of agrarian reformation, as well as to the character of participation of the local self-governance in implementation of the Stolypin reforms.

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