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 VIII. Assistance to farming

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152 THE ZEMSTVOS DURING THE WAR The following instance taken from the district of Moscow, will make it clear how complex these popular organizations of mutual assistance sometimes became. Following a conference of the repre- sentatives of coSperative societies with the district zemstvo board, the credit association of Durykino, in response to the appeal of the zemstvo, decided to come to the aid of farms which were suffering from war conditions. It was joined by eleven local organizations, in- cluding dairymen’s associations, parochial relief committees, the zemstvo relief committee, and the committee for the relief of dis- abled soldiers. All these organizations jointly appointed a commit- tee which divided the volost of Durykino into ten areas. In each area a commission was appointed for the purpose of investigating cases of need and determining the extent of the assistance to be rendered. Among the members of the commissions were village elders, medical officers, school teachers, and the clergy. The estimates and the plan »f relief measures drawn by the commissions were examined and approved by the Durykino zemstvo relief committee. As a result, assistance was given to 830 households in forty rural communities.’ In some provinces the organization was better planned and more sfficient. We have already mentioned the establishment of the volost aconomic councils in Perm in the spring of 1916. At the close of July, 1916, the provincial board reported to the provincial -assem- bly of Perm as follows: According to the testimony of the district board of Kamyshlov, the hopes of the zemstvo for a more efficient system of relief based on popu- lar initiative, as represented by the volost economic councils, were found to be fully justified. . . . In the opinion of the district board, the zemstvo ought to follow the same procedure in its further measures for assisting the farmers. It was ascertained, for instance, in the course of the sowing operations that all implements, horses, and other facilities placed at the disposal of the farmers by the zemstvo had been utilized by the volost economic councils in a thoroughly efficient manner. Of similar volost councils or committees we read in the reports of those organizations in the provinces of Ufa, Samara, and Stavropol. In other localities they were known by different names, but followed the same plan of work and succeeded in rallying the farmers round the zemstvos. 5 Isvestia (Bulletin), Nos. 43-44, pp. 182-183.

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