Private initiative and the members of public organizations in the pre-revolutionary Russian Far East

The article discusses the main lines of the private initiative implementation and the members of non-governmental organizations as the major features of social life in pre-revolutionary Far East. The author addresses the issues of the individual activity of the citizens, the role of governors in opening up the society, which functioned in 1885-1917. Private initiative is one indicator to measure the formation of the pre-revolutionary civil society and the mechanism of the two-way relationship between people and government. The paper emphasizes a wide range of estates representatives engaged in public organizations, an active involvement of government officials, including high-ranking ones, as the members and patrons of the society. The article evaluates these associations as a group of trusted individuals of local authorities that contributed its fair share to the management and development of the Far East.