"Self -government in imperial Russia." Lecture by Andrei Zubov

The Department of History of Novaya Gazeta represents

Why was it impossible to free peasants without creating an effective system of local self -government?

The freedom of the individual should go hand in hand with the freedom of civilian, otherwise it will not be effective. This was perfectly understood by the "fathers of great reforms."

About how the system of zemstvo and urban self -government was organized, how it developed and how it was destroyed by the Bolsheviks in the very first months after the coup (in January 1918) - see the new lecture by Professor Zubov.