Electoral Spring - 1990: the First Real Elections in the Province (on Materials of Tambov Region)
The author analyzes the campaign of 1990 on the election of people's deputies and deputies of local councils. The author studies the peculiarities of the first in the entire history of the Soviet Union of free elections in the Russian provinces, which evolved in the clear model - regional party structures of the opposition forces. The methods of struggle of opposing parties were examined; attention was given to the issue of influence of elections and their results on the further alignment of forces in the region. The research is based on materials of printed mass media, documents of state archive of social and political history of the Tambov region. With the use of archive documents, materials of printed mass media it was made possible to reconstruct the chronology of events in Tambov and the Tambov region in the period of the election campaign.