Alexeev S. G. Local Self-Government of Russian Peasants in the 18th-19th Centuries In Russian (ask us if in doubt)/Alekseev S. G. Mestnoe samoupravlenie russkikh krestyan XVIII-XIX vv. The book is devoted to an overview of the history of the Russian peasantry in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The author gives concrete comparisons with the provisions of the European peasantry of that time, considers the history of the formation of the peasant estate, as well as various decrees and resolutions regulating the beginnings of local peasant self-government in different territories of the Russian Empire, summarizes the results of two hundred years of development of local self-government and the role of peasants in the economic life of the country. SKUalbaa0ff849fa073d1a.