Russian local government during the war and the Union of Zemstvos

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Identifikator:: 890892032

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-34137

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Waha, Raymund de http://d-nb.info/gnd/117560855

Title:: Die Nationalökonomie in Frankreich

Place of publication:: Stuttgart

Publisher:: Verlag von Ferdinand Enke

Year of publication:: 1910

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (XIX, 540 Seiten)

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Buch I Die liberale Schule

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WORK OF THE UNION ment for the institutions maintained by the Zemstvo Union, and 14,151,970 rubles worth of drugs, to be bought in the Russian and foreign markets.” By this time, the Zemstvo Union had opened two factories of its own at Moscow for the manufacture of drugs. One of them, which employed seven hundred hands representing twelve different workers’ guilds, produced 4,000,000 rubles worth of goods a year at prices 15 to 40 per cent lower than the market prices. Another chemical work, converted from a brewery bought by the zemstvo, began to function in July, 1916. Expanding gradually and in- creasing its output under the management of the best chemists available, this plant was able by July, 1917, to manufacture 800,- 000 rubles worth of goods every month. The scarcity of medical supplies during the War was so acute that many of the zemstvos were unable to dispense with the assist- ance of the Union not only for the war hospitals but even for their regular peace-time hospitals. How extensively this help was given to them will become apparent from the fact that by 1916 more than three-quarters of all the zemstvos were receiving their medical goods from the Central Committee of the Union. This experience stimulated many of the zemstvo boards to con- template the maintenance of zemstvo associations for the common purchase of medical supplies also in peace time. On June 10-12, 1916, a number of conferences were held by the Central Committee of the Zemstvo Union to discuss this subject, and were attended by 150 representatives from the provinces. As such an undertaking re- quired, however, formal resolutions of the zemstvo assemblies, it was impossible to carry out the plan before the Revolution. Evacuation of Wounded and Sick Soldiers. Large masses of sick and wounded soldiers had been passing through the important railway junctions from the very first day of the War. In the overwhelming majority of cases these men were traveling from the front under very bad conditions. The evacuation authorities of the Ministry of War had at their disposal about twenty magnificent hospital trains, each of them having cost hun- ? Izvestia (Bulletin) of the Central Committee of the All-Russian Union of Zemstvos, Moscow, 1917, Nos. 54-55, p. 185.

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