Municipal policy of the cabinet of S. Sulkevich and elections to the Crimean City Dumas (summer–autumn 1918)
https://doi.org/10.18384/2310-676X-2023-1-42-54
Abstract
Aim. To consider the policy of the Crimean Regional Government of S. Sulkevich in relation to the local self-governance bodies, the new electoral law adopted by him and the results of the elections to the city dumas of Crimea in 1918.
Methodology. Based on the materials of the press, the author makes an attempt to investigate the conflict between the government and the city municipalities of the Crimea. The new electoral legislation, which was supposed to contribute to the election of dumas loyal to Sulkevich, was studied in detail. The problem-chronological and comparative-historical methods were used in the work.
Results. The author concluded that the new curial system of elections helped to weaken the influence of socialists in the city dumas, but at the same time exacerbated the conflict of the government with almost all political forces of the Crimea and played an important role in its downfall.
Research implications. The research materials can be used both by historians in the study of the Civil War and by political scientists in the study of electoral engineering and its influence on the course of political processes.
Supporting agencies: The study was funded by the Russian Science Foundation, project № 21-7800015 «Electoral processes during the Civil War by the example of anti-Bolshevik quasi-states in European Russia (1918–1920)».
About the Author
A. A. Chemakin
St. Petersburg State University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Anton A. Chemakin – Cand. Sci. (Historical), Senior Lecturer, Department of History for Teaching at the Natural and Humanitarian Faculties, Institute of History
Universitetskaya naberezhnaya 7/9, Saint Petersburg 199034
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