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4 - Choosing local leaders

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 August 2009

Sarah Badcock
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University of Nottingham
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The personalities and political persuasions of those local people who led grass-roots politics played an important part in determining the climate and policies of local politics. This chapter will concentrate on the most tangible section of local leadership, those who were elected into positions of authority and representation for the community. These elected leaders formed an important conduit between local people and the various organs of power that developed in 1917. Those individuals selected by their communities to represent them at every level, from the Constituent Assembly right down to village committees, were invested with authority that came from their direct selection and were a significant influence on the climate of local politics. Though these local leaders cannot be considered to represent all local leaders, many of whom did not participate in any electoral process, they can at least offer us a starting point. This chapter will develop our understanding of the grounds on which elected leaders were selected, who they were and the multiple pressures that they faced.

A profound dichotomy developed for local leaders in the course of 1917. They were selected, generally speaking, because they were seen to be able to reflect specifically local demands and concerns, yet their very participation in the structures of power implicitly moved them away from these local concerns and towards the agendas set at national level by political parties, the Petrograd Soviet and the Provisional Government.

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Politics and the People in Revolutionary Russia
A Provincial History
, pp. 87 - 122
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2007

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  • Choosing local leaders
  • Sarah Badcock, University of Nottingham
  • Book: Politics and the People in Revolutionary Russia
  • Online publication: 10 August 2009
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511496998.006
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  • Choosing local leaders
  • Sarah Badcock, University of Nottingham
  • Book: Politics and the People in Revolutionary Russia
  • Online publication: 10 August 2009
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511496998.006
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  • Choosing local leaders
  • Sarah Badcock, University of Nottingham
  • Book: Politics and the People in Revolutionary Russia
  • Online publication: 10 August 2009
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511496998.006
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