The conflict on a provincial scale: how the Kursk provincial department of justice did not execute the order of the People's Commissariat of Justice (1922.1924)

This article is based on little-known archival documents, dealing with questions of mutual relation of the central power, local authorities and the provincial inhabitant (on an example of the events happened in Kursk province in 1922.1924). It focuses on the opposition of one family to local bodies of the Soviet power concerning the nationalized manor which belonged to members of this family before the revolution. It makes a conclusion that even when the Bolshevik state rigidly.normalized. an everyday life of citizens there was also a return process: inertia of a life, unwillingness of people to refuse habitual vital way were capable to influence actions of the power and even have to cause the conflict between its top and ground floors.