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 VI. Relief of sick and wounded soldiers

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94 THE ZEMSTVOS DURING THE WAR undertaking so enormous a task. A conference was held with the head of the medical department of the army, at which it was unani- mously decided that the assistance of the Zemstvo Union should be enlisted. The telegram dispatched in this connection by the Minis- try of War included the following sentence: “Prompted by the con- sideration that this Union has extended its activities throughout the interior with such success, we feel that it possesses the best and most adequate means and resources to undertake the construction of the above-mentioned hospitals.” The building season was coming to an end and the transport of building material by rail was extremely difficult. Nor was it possible everywhere to purchase suitable sites for the hospitals, while com- pulsory expropriation would have involved complicated formalities. In spite of these obstacles, the Zemstvo Union, having communi- cated with its local committees, undertook this work also, stipulating merely that the Government should assist it in the conveyance of the requisite materials and in obtaining the necessary sites. The Gov- ernment accepted these terms, the local committees proceeded to buy the building materials, and work was started in many places. Ac- cording to the estimates, the cost of one bed varied from three hun- dred to seven hundred rubles and the length of time required to com- plete the buildings from two to four months. The Government, nevertheless, found itself unable to deliver all the materials and to obtain the sites. The result was that the zem- stvos were freed from some of the obligations they had assumed, the more so as the termination of the German offensive made the whole enterprise far less urgent than it had been. Still, by March and April, 1915, substantial, heated hospital barracks with a capacity of 24,480 beds had been built. This work was shared by the follow- ing provincial zemstvos: Vladimir, Saratov, Kostroma, Nizhni- Novgorod, Perm, Poltava, Samara, Simbirsk, Tambov, Ufa, and Kharkov. In the Don and Kuban territories such barracks were constructed by the Rostov committee of the Union. From September, 1915, to about the latter part of December of that year, there was a complete standstill in hostilities on all Rus- sian fronts, interrupted only by minor clashes in the Riga-Dvinsk sector, which could not in any way affect the work of the clearing hospitals. But at the end of December there were almost simultane

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