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

Collection:: Economics Books

129 practical inauguration of this excellent scheme was beset with insur- mountable obstacles. Already on August 11, 1914, a Supreme Council had been formed under the chairmanship of the President of the Council of Ministers for the purpose, as it was stated in the ukase, “of securing the co- ordination of state, public, and private efforts to provide for the families of mobilized men and the families of those who were wounded and killed.” On January 10, 1915, the sphere of activities of this council was enlarged. It was now given charge of activities connected with the finding of employment for disabled soldiers, and other forms of relief. For this purpose the Supreme Council ap- pointed from among its own members a Special Committee presided over by the Emperor’s sister, the Grand Duchess Xenia. The local branches of the Committee of Grand ‘Duchess Elizabeth Feodo- rovna® were recognized as the local organs of the Special Commit- tee. Representatives of the Unions of Zemstvos and of Towns were invited to take part in the deliberations of the Committee, but they were greatly outnumbered by the bureaucrats. The funds placed at the disposal of the Special Committee were practically unlimited. The representatives of the Union of Towns submitted to the Com- mittee a plan for the relief of the disabled men that was, on the whole, very much like the plan proposed by the Zemstvo Union. The recommendations of the Union of Towns were duly considered and most of them accepted by the Committee, which then proceeded to carry the program into effect. The Committee decided to create its own organization, but was prepared, at the same time, to subsi- dize other institutions, such as individual zemstvos. It merely ig- nored the Unions of Zemstvos and of Towns. The Commitlee’s own work was carried on principally in Petrograd. The work of its local organs did not run very smoothly. The Committee examined and approved a number of individual and purely casual requests and petitions from various institutions, societies, and private individuals, for subsidies. During the first year the work done was confined to the compara- tively narrow limits of an ordinary charitable institution in Petro- grad. Encouraged by this example, many government departments attempted to follow suit. Thus, the Ministry of Commerce and In- 37 Sister of the Empress Alexandra Feodorovna. SICK AND WOUNDED

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