MOSCOW CITY SELF-GOVERNMENT UNDER THE BOLSHEVIKS (THE END OF 1917 – BEGINNING 1918)
The article discusses how the Bolsheviks in late 1917 – early 1918 were able to take control of the self-government of Moscow and studies the first steps of the new government in the management of the municipality and their actions to transform the system of city governance. On the basis of archival materials, the press, as well as memories of municipal Bolshevik leaders the author concludes that radical socialists abandoned the parliamentary model of self-government because of intensification of the struggle with their opponents, unwillingness to compromise, the need for centralized management and generality of the competence of self-government bodies and Soviets.