The zemstvo's projects of the implementation of compulsory education and the problems of their realization in Perm governorate (the second half of the 19th to the early 20th century)

The paper analyzes the main stages and characteristic features of the zemstvo’s activities concerning the solution of the implementation of compulsory education problem in Perm governorate. The paper describes the difficulties which zemstvos encountered in realizing projects aimed at the implementation of compulsory education. It is shown that, despite some zemstvos’ considerable progress in this field it turned out to be impossible to resolve the issue of the implementation of compulsory education in the territory of Perm governorate during the pre-revolutionary period. The research was based on the materials of zemsky paperwork from the funds the Russian State Historical Archive and the State Archive of the Perm Region.