Editing Selsoviet (section)

==Soviet Union==

A December 24, 1917 decree of [[Sovnarkom]] initiated the reform of the administrative division inherited from the [[Russian Empire]] by which all local power must belong to [[soviet (council)|soviet]]s of the corresponding level of hierarchy.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://istmat.org/node/28283|title=№ 179. Об организации местного самоуправления. {{!}} Проект «Исторические Материалы»|website=istmat.info|access-date=2021-11-28|archive-date=2021-11-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211128185034/http://istmat.info/node/28283}}</ref> The reform was finalized in 1924.<ref name=su1924/>

For a considerable period of Soviet history, [[Propiska in the Soviet Union|passports]] of rural residents were stored in selsoviet offices, and people could not move outside their area of residence without the permission of selsoviet.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://historyrussia.org/tsekh-istorikov/sozdanie-sistemy-kontrolya-nad-naseleniem-v-sssr-pasport-kak-klassovaya-sushchnost.html |title=Создание системы контроля над населением в СССР. Паспорт как классовая сущность |access-date=2022-01-31 |archive-date=2022-01-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220131104121/https://historyrussia.org/tsekh-istorikov/sozdanie-sistemy-kontrolya-nad-naseleniem-v-sssr-pasport-kak-klassovaya-sushchnost.html}}</ref><ref name="автоссылка1">{{Cite web |url=https://magazines.gorky.media/novyi_mi/1996/6/pasportnaya-sistema-sovetskogo-krepostnichestva.html |title=В. Попов. Паспортная система советского крепостничества |access-date=2022-01-31 |archive-date=2021-06-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210605142806/https://magazines.gorky.media/novyi_mi/1996/6/pasportnaya-sistema-sovetskogo-krepostnichestva.html}}</ref>