...the great stronghold of Caesarian despotism and cen' tralised bureaucracy these village communities are capital ' specimens of representative constitutional government of the ' extreme democratic type.' Surely a moment's reflection would have satisfied Mr. Wallace that whatever these assemblies are they...

...democracy, that is, as Mr. Wallace observes, in "the great stronghold of Caesarian depotism and centralized bureaucracy these village communes, containing about...constitutional government of the extreme democratic type."* And so we find frequent expression -i similar to that preserved in the proces verbal of the 193, where...

...democracy, that is, as Mr. Wallace observes, in "the great str&nghold of Caesarian depotism and centralized bureaucracy these village communes, containing about...constitutional government of the extreme democratic type."' And so we find frequent expressions similar to that preserved in the proces verbal of the 193, where...

...law are very substantial. In fact, in the great strongholds of Caesarian despotism and centralized bureaucracy, these village communes, containing about...Constitutional government of the extreme democratic type. ... If the functions and mutual relations of the Village Elder and the Village Assembly have ever been...

...households are members. ' Russia,' says Mr. Wallace, ' is a land of paradoxes. The village communities, containing about five-sixths of the population, are...constitutional government of the extreme democratic type.' It was, he says, a prevalent opinion that Russia had been saved from the terrible evils which arise...

...Csesarian despotism and centralized bureaucracy,' these Village Communes, containing about fire-sixths of the population, are capital specimens of representative...in the English, and not in the Continental, sense. . . . Their constitution is of the English type — a body of unwritten, traditional conception»,...

...institution in 1875, "In 'the great stronghold of Caesarian depotism and centralized bureaucracy' these communes, containing about fivesixths of the population,...constitutional government of the extreme democratic type." * He explains that he is speaking of Constitution in the English and not the Continental sense. There...

...peasantry" and that their village communes, despite the supposed horrors of Russian administration, "are capital specimens of representative constitutional government of the extreme democratic type." Given these virtues of the peasantry at the base of society and the "humane despotism" of Alexander...

...more than four-fifths of the population ; they enjoy, he says, "the most complete autonomy," and they are " capital specimens of representative constitutional government of the extreme democratic type." Even women, when heads of households, take part in the business of the mir. The commune is the primeval...

...more than four-fifths of the population ; they enjoy, he says, ' the most complete autonomy,' and they are ' capital specimens of representative constitutional government of the extreme democratic type.' Even women, when heads of households, take part in the business of the ' Mir.' The commune is the primeval...