«THE TAKING PART IN DIFFERENT MUNICIPAL SERVICES» PARTICIPATION OF THE PETTY BOURGEOISIE IN THE MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT SYSTEM OF THE RUSSIAN PROVINCE IN THE LATE XVIII AND THE FIRST HALF OF THE 19th CENTURY (based on the Archives of the Province of Perm)

This article is dedicated to the problem of participation of the petty bourgeoisies in the system of municipal government in the pre-reform period of the late 18th and the first half of the 19th century. The author analyses activity of such estate institutions as the «gradskoe Society» and «posadskaya Community» from the viewpoint of their power and membership conditions. The article presents a comparative analysis of petty bourgeoisie societies’ activity in different russian cities and puts emphasis on the high level of the bourgeoisie's engagement in the work of local self-government.