Le zemstvo de la région (oblast') du Nord pendant la guerre civile : entre représentation politique et bureaucratie administrative

Cahiers d'histoire russe, est-européenne, caucasienne et centrasiatique (ex. Cahiers du Monde Russe). 2017. Т. 58. № 1-2. С. 95–122.

Novikova Ljudmila

The article examines the political and administrative functions of the zemstvos in Arkhangel´sk province in northern Russia during the Civil War. Zemstvos were liquidated in the province in early 1918 after the Bolsheviks’ seizure of power, but later resumed their work under the anti‑Bolshevik Provisional Government of Northern Russia between mid‑1918 and 1920. The reinstated zemstvos enjoyed significant popular support in the North. Still, in the conditions of the Civil War, they abandoned their role as public forums for debating and solving local problems, and instead became an instrument in the government’s policies aimed at mobilizing people and resources for the war. The centralization of the zemstvo self‑government closely mirrored the consolidation of the Bolshevik and Soviet party apparatus that took place at the same time on the other side of the Civil War front.

Keywords: бюрократия, bureaucracy, Russian Civil War, zemstvo, земство, революция 1917 года, белое движение, Гражданская война в России, White movement, Russian Revolution 1917

Publication based on the results of: Война, власть и общество в СССР в 1930-1950-е гг. (2017)