Kalinina, Elena V.
Izvestia SOIGSI. 2020. IIS 35 (74).

Abstract:
The content of the monograph is analyzed, which examines the evolution of democratic
institutions among the Slavic population of the North Caucasus. The review provides a description
of the presumptions and conclusions of the authors of the monograph regarding the development of
traditional self-government, the organization of elections to various authorities and administrative
structures. The fact, that the questions of the common law of peasants and Cossacks are raised in the
research, deserves positive appraisal, the specifics of the noble self-government in the North Caucasus
are also shown. The process of introducing the Soviet legal system, which supplanted traditional legal
institutions, was examined via relevant examples. The contents of the monograph are commented
in the review.

Keywords: historical science, democratic institutions, elections, self-government, customary law, peasantry, Cossacks, nobility.