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Социокультурная и политическая трансформация позднеимперской России в газете «Пермская земская неделя», 1907-1917 гг.
The paper examines the perception of the socio-cultural and political transformation of late imperial Russia by the zemstvo as one of the direct participants in this process. The creation of the State Duma in the Russian Empire is understood as the next step towards an overall elective representation, because of which the zemstvos and parliament are represented as parts of the evolutionary process of transformation of society in the Russian Empire. The study focuses on the regional assessment of the political and sociocultural processes of the early 20th century. The research is aimed at self-presentation of the Perm provincial zemstvo. One of the most important and still poorly studied sources of this period is periodical press as the main mass source of information. The article examines the newspaper "Permskaya Zemskaya Nedelya" as the official newspaper of the Perm provincial zemstvo. The newspaper was created to publish zemstvo's opinions on the zemstvo activities and note the problems and prospects for the development of society. Attention to parliamentary activity significantly influenced the "Permskaya Zemskaya Nedelya" as a whole: the editorial board preferred the State Duma's vector of internal policy, followed the current agenda, and used the idea of people's representation to determine its place in the state administration system. Since more than 300 issues of the newspaper “Permskaya Zemskaya Nedelya” have been digitized, the methods of text analysis in the MAXQDA software have been applied to them. Based on the test sample of publications categories for further analysis were highlighted. Among these categories are both formal characteristics of articles (place in the structure of an issue) and substantive (themes, images of zemstvo members and emotional color of the text). The text was marked up with codes, after that a code map was built in MAXQDA. It allowed to consider the self-presentation of the Perm provincial zemstvo in the source, and the most important image of the zemstvo is from the rhetoric of the State Duma. Because of studying the plans and expectations that the newspaper's editorial board associated with the future of the Russian Empire, it was concluded that the zemstvo could not become a modern institution. Keeping the way of social development outlined by the State Duma, the zemstvo in the Perm province was engaged in educational work. The prohibition on the expression of political opinions led to the situation that in 1917 the Perm zemstvo was unable to enlist support among the population, perceiving it as an object of its educational work, and not a full-fledged subject of public life. Despite the aim to expand the powers of local self-government bodies, the zemstvo was not ready for new social tasks and was unable to adapt to revolutionary changes. In 1917, the Perm provincial zemstvo turned out to be an old body under the new government.