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In the Soviet state, during all years of its existence, a system of Councils of different levels operated as a form of implementing the slogan proclaimed by the October Revolution of 1917 "all power to the people!" The article reveals the features of the structural construction of local Councils and its legislative regulation in the final period of the functioning of the USSR, namely during the famous Gorbachev "perestroika" (1985-1991). The object of the study is the local Councils that functioned in the RSFSR. The emphasis is placed on the organizational and structural structure of bodies performing representative and executive functions of local Councils. In addition, only local Councils are considered, starting with city and district Councils and below, taking into account that by the end of perestroika the territories and regions had already acquired many elements of the status of subjects of the Federation. Some publications on the stated topic are also taken into account. It is noted that significant changes in the status of local Councils began only by the end of perestroika, and exclusively "from above", from the heights of political power, where the mood to switch to a capitalist system was already clearly dominant, which cannot be said about the deputies of local Councils, who were much more conservative in their attitude, and as a result, local Councils never fit into the new socio-economic trends, and in the early 1990s the institution of local Councils was abolished (due to both the end of the term of the former local deputies and the self-dissolution of local Councils) and replaced by the current institution of local self-government.
Keywords:Soviet state, perestroika, local councils, representative and executive bodies, powers, historical development.
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