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One Local Vote at a Time: Electoral Practices of Kazan Province, 1766-1916

出版	Georgetown University-Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, History, 2011
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=aF8TngEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Local elections in the Russian Empire were conducted long before the Great Reforms in the mid-nineteenth century, the point from which many scholars have traditionally dated them; and gradually became a routine part of local life. Such practices were founded on the provincial reforms initiated by Peter the Great in the early eighteenth century, and were further solidified by the electoral procedures adopted for the 1766 elections to Catherine the Great's Legislative Commission as well as by her local reforms. Through a series of case studies of local elections in the ethnically and religiously diverse Kazan province, this dissertation analyzes how local elections expanded into the early twentieth century, across a host of institutions, and suggests possible ways that future scholarship may place the electoral activity in the Russian Empire in a larger comparative context. The goals of this dissertation are to examine: 1) how people of various religious, ethnic, linguistic, and socio-economic backgrounds participated in the governance of Kazan province through elected institutions; 2) how elections served as a mechanism for negotiating life amidst such diversity of people, balancing the demands of the imperial government with the realities of the local context; and, 3) how local elections created experiences and practices that contributed to evolving notions of rights, participation, and representation as expressed in the words of voters themselves.