Keyword: «posad»
CIVILIZATIONAL FEATURES OF THE RUSSIAN NORTH OF MEDIEVAL RUSSIA: THE ASPECT OF LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT
Authors:
Valerii Skryabin, Sergei Savenko
Valerii Skryabin, Sergei Savenko
The article examines very peculiar socio-political relations related to local self-government. As the example of separated region of the Eurasian continent – the Russian North of the pre-Petrine era. The author thought that the true democracy of our civilization can be seen in a single hierarchical system of representative authority of regional self-government, which existed in those time, and which was the basis of power in traditional society.
Keywords:
clergy, zemstvo, church, power, peasants, parish, self-government, voivodeship as administration, congregation, lay assembly, lay council, posad