Russian local government during the war and the Union of Zemstvos

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Identifikator:: 1794855874

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

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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 VII. Relief of families of mobilized men

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FAMILIES OF MOBILIZED MEN : 145 during their stay at these institutions. In some of the provinces the cost of maintaining one hundred children in a nursery for a period of one month and a half was found to be about 500 rubles. The man- agement was often in the hands of the local school teacher. It must not be imagined, however, that institutions of this kind were established all over Russia, and in sufficient numbers. This organization was very different from the vast enterprise by which hospital facilities were provided for the sick and wounded soldiers. In the latter case there was a codrdinated, nation-wide plan, pre- pared and carried out by the Unions of Zemstvos and of Towns, after they had succeeded in convincing the authorities that it was absolutely necessary for the Government to allocate adequate funds for this purpose. The day nurseries, on the contrary, were sup- ported merely by local enterprise on a modest scale, aided only in a few favorable instances by the official charitable organizations. The problem of what particular form, or forms, the care of war orphans should take was discussed many times in the course of the War by various government institutions, but no definite action was ever decided upon. There were numerous committees which were supposed to look after these matters, but they proved incapable of making any concentrated effort and of creating local organs for the realization of their plans. It must be conceded, therefore, that the care of war orphans, as also the relief of disabled soldiers, left much to be desired. A third form of assistance, agricultural relief, was at first granted only to the families of mobilized men; gradually, however, the zem- stvos found themselves compelled to extend their aid to many other categories of peasant homes, which had suffered heavily as a result of the War. This matter will be dealt with in the following chapter.

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