RUSSIAN SELF-GOVERNMENT IN A HISTORICAL SECTION (IX-XIX centuries)
The article examines the emergence and development of the main forms of self-government in our country during the pre-revolutionary period. Such a form of national self-government as the Veche is considered. Vecha assemblies became widespread in Russia with the weakening of princely power during the period of feudal fragmentation (the second half of the 11th-12th centuries), becoming a form of government in many cities - the centers of individual lands. The heyday of veche activity is associated with the strengthening of the role of citizens in political life. The important role of such a form of self-government as the Zemsky Cathedral, the central co-representative institution of Russia in the middle of the XVI - end of the XVII centuries, is noted. A description of the Zemstvo authorities that developed as a result of the reform of 1864 is given.