The article under consideration is virtually a brief review of the book “Authorities in a Small Russian Town” by A. Ye. Chirikova and V. G. Ledyayev. The authors have conducted their own sociological questioning among the professors of the department of state and municipal management and masters of day-time studies under the Academy of Civil Protection attached to the Ministry of Extraordinary Situations of Russia; the questioning being concerned with the key problems of organization and functioning of power elicited in the reviewed book belonging to A.Ye.Chirikova and V.G.Ledyayev. Some items are expounded in the given review.
The latter has been prepared in the frames of the scientific school “State Policy and Management” functioning on a permanent basis in the Academy of Social Protection attached to the Ministry of Extraordinary Situations of Russia.
sociological analysis, municipal authorities, minor town, local community, megapolis, local policy, political class, divided leadership, stopped urbanization
1. Chirikova A. Ye., Ledyayev V. G. Authorities in a Small Russian Town. – M.: Publishing- house of the Higher School of Economics, 2017. – 414 pp.
Koshkin A. P., Melkov S. A. Political Urbanistics: Problems and Perspectives // Bulletin of the Russian University of Economics named after G. V. Plekhanov. 2015, №1. – pp. 144 - 159.