Moscow, Nauka Publ. 1984. 198 p. The history of the Soviets, which are the political basis of our society and a powerful instrument of socialist construction, rightfully occupies one of the prominent places among the key problems of the national history of the era of socialism. Historians and lawyers are actively studying the process of formation of Soviets and their transformation into state authorities .1 The literature also reflects the history of the regional link of the Soviet system-regional associations that played a significant role in the victory of the Great October Socialist Revolution and the consolidation of its conquests. 2In her new monograph, which is the first generalizing work on the history of regional councils of national districts of the country, Senior researcher of the Institute of History of the USSR of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Candidate of Historical Sciences Z. L. Serebryakova develops the provisions and conclusions that she came to earlier as a result of studying the history of regional associations of I'll watch some of them- 1 Gorodetsky E. N. Rozhdenie Sovetskogo gosudarstva [The Birth of the Soviet State], Moscow, 1965; Morozov B. M. Partiya i Sovieti v Oktyabrskoy revolyutsii, Moscow, 1966; Andreev A.M. Soviets rabochikh i soldatskikh deputatov ne predlo Oktyabrya, Moscow, 1967; Soviets in the first year of the Proletarian Dictatorship. October 1917-November 1918. Moscow, 1967; Soviets for 50 years. Moscow, 1967; Gimpelson E. G. Iz istorii stroitelstva Sovetov. Moscow, 1967; Sovetskoe gosudarstvo - god pervyi. Moscow, 1973; Khesin S. S. Stanovlenie proletarskoi diktatury v Rossii. Moscow, 1975; Razgon A. I. VTSIK Sovetov v pervye mestyami diktatury proletariata [The Formation of the Proletarian Dictatorship in Russia]. Moscow, 1977; Istoriya natsionalno - gosudarstvennogo stroitel'stva v SSSR [History of National-State Construction in the USSR], Ed. 3-E. T. 1, Moscow, 1979; Krushanov A. I. Pobeda Sovetskoi vlasti na Dalnem ... Читать далее