Bila K. Peasant self-government in the Right Bank of Ukraine in 1861 - 1914.

In the dissertation on the basis of the studied archival materials and a wide array of published and unpublished sources, the bodies of peasant self-government of the Right-Bank of Ukraine, their formation in the 1860s and functioning until 1914 were investigated. The paper formulates and highlights an actual scientific topic that has not received proper reflection in historiography. The activities of peasant self-government bodies have been comprehensively considered since the entry into force of the "Regulations on peasants liberated from serfdom" in 1861 and until the summer of 1914, when the Russian Empire entered into war, which led to the transition of social and political processes into a new plane of relations. The staff was studied and for the first time the working conditions and social security of the staff of volost and village administrations were studied. Special attention is paid to the issue of motivation and encouragement of peasant servants to work in the bodies of peasant self-government. The problem of corruption and official violations that took place in the peasant administration bodies was carefully analyzed. The reasons and circumstances that prompted employees of parish and rural administrations to take bribes or official negligence were clarified. The spheres of activity of the bodies of peasant management are characterized, such as: financial, social, judicial, police, and for the first time the cooperation of parish and rural managements with the military sector is described in detail.