Authority and elections to zemskoe self-government in the second half of the XIX с

At the present stage of state-building and the formation of a civil society in Russia, one of the most important remains the problem of the attitude of state power to local self-government. With all the differences and incompatibility of state forms and historical conditions of the “era of great reforms” and the current stage of state construction, they are united by the fact that it was the government that not only initiated these or other transformations, but also acted as their organizer, determined their mechanisms, forms and ways to implement. From this point of view, it is very useful to analyze the history of the attitude of state power to local self-government in the course of the implementation of the Zemstvo reform in Russia in the 60s and 70s. XIX century.