Russian local government during the war and the Union of Zemstvos

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Identifikator:: 1794855874

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-179223

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Polner, Tichon I. http://d-nb.info/gnd/172311195

Title:: Russian local government during the war and the Union of Zemstvos

Place of publication:: New Haven

Publisher:: Yale Univ. Press

Year of publication:: 1930

Scope:: XXV, 317 S.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter V. The Zemstvos and the Zemstvo Union

Collection:: Economics Books

THE ZEMSTVOS AND THE UNION 85 sions it would also be emphasized very clearly that the Government was dealing with the individual zemstvos, and not with the Union. This led to the frustration of several plans which had been very seriously considered by the joint committees of the Union of Zem- stvos and Union of Towns, and numerous efforts made by these organizations were doomed. This is what happened in the matter of combating epidemics, caring for the children of killed or dis- abled soldiers, the relief of refugees, the organization of food sup- ply, and many other serious questions. Under these circumstances it is but natural that discontent and irritation among the zemstvo workers should have steadily increased and manifested themselves very clearly at the conferences of zemstvos held in Moscow. Conferences of the Union of Zemstuvos. Seven such conferences were held. The first two, which met on July 80, 1914, and on March 12-13, 1915, and were attended by sixty or seventy representatives, displayed a great deal of patriotic sentiment and were loyal to the Government, limiting the discussions strictly to routine business. At the third conference, however, which was summoned by telegraph on June 5, 1915, a considerable amount of uneasiness was already apparent. This was a moment when the army, lacking munitions, was forced to retreat. The Duma had been prorogued. This conference, “conscious of its responsibility and its duty toward the country in these days of sore trial,” reminded the Government that, if the great common effort that is being made for the benefit of the army 1s to be successful, it will be “necessary to have a close union between the Government and the people, resting upon mutual confidence, and, to realize such a union in practice, it is indispensable to convoke immediately the State Duma.” At the next conference, which assembled on September 7-9, 1915, and was attended by 125 representatives, the chairman, Prince Lvov, in giving expression to the sentiments which animated the zemstvos, now spoke with far more determination, remarking, in the course of his address: We do not fight, nor have we now any need to fight, for the right of participating in the work of the nation. The facts themselves are now handing over that work to us, so that we have gradually advanced from our hospitals all the way to supplying the needs of the army in

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