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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130 THE ZEMSTVOS DURING THE WAR dustry framed a bill to be submitted to the Duma on vocational in- struction for disabled men at government expense. Similar steps were taken at the same time by the Ministry of Education, and the Ministry of War. The representatives of the Unions of Zemstvos and of Towns were persistent in urging the Committee to entrust the work of car- ng for discharged soldiers to the combined forces of the two unions, which would be in a position to give proper guidance to the indi- 7sidual zemstvos and municipalities and to develop their activities on a nation-wide scale. After lengthy negotiations between the two nnions on the one hand and the Committee on the other, the latter was informed on January 15, 1916, that the two unions considered it feasible to coordinate their work with that of the Committee, but on condition that the zemstvos and municipalities should put into offect the common plan worked out by them for the relief of the dis- abled, and that they should submit their request for subsidies to the Central Committees of the two unions and that these should then forward them to the Special Committee of the Supreme Council. Five months elapsed without any reply to this suggestion. Finally the Duma took a hand in the matter and then the Supreme Council also found it necessary to pay serious attention to the fact that no coordinated work was being done in an institution which was sup- posed to have been created precisely for coordinated effort. In the journal of the Supreme Council of June 9, 1916. we read: It must be admitted that, as the annual report on the work of the Special Committee shows conclusively, this work, as now carried on, is not fully calculated to discharge the important and responsible duty mentioned above. . . . The branches of the Council and the Committee .tself failed to organize adequately the relief of the disabled soldiers. The work done so far was carried on as a private charity, and, as shown by experience, does not satisfy the requirements of a national >rganization for the relief of disabled soldiers. The problem cannot be satisfactorily solved unless it is put in the hands of a responsible organ on the spot for whom the care of disabled soldiers would be not merely a right, but also a duty, independently of the assistance which they might be receiving from charitable organizations. After these experiences the Special Committee on June 21, 1916, informed the Zemstvo Union that it was ready to accept its terms.

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