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 IX. Relief of refugees

Collection:: Economics Books

REFUGEES 161 tire communities migrating under the leadership of the village priest, or the village elder or schoolmaster. At other times they were merely panic-stricken mobs. In leaving their homes the refugees tried to carry with them some of their belongings, moving along in disorderly and seemingly endless lines of wagons and other vehicles, surrounded by domestic animals. Organization of Relief Work. The work of the zemstvo organizations became more complicated when the refugees had to be moved farther into the interior. There was now the additional burden of finding room for them on the rail- way trains, helping them to dispose of their cattle and equipment, improving railway facilities, providing food along the road, and establishing isolation hospitals to prevent the spreading of infec- tious diseases in the interior of the country. Special committees were established for the relief of refugees, and they made arrangements with other organizations working for the relief of the refugees, such as the Union of Towns, the Committee of the Grand Duchess Tati- ana, and the various national committees (Polish, Jewish, Lettish, and Lithuanian). At the end of July, 1915, the Minister of the Interior also took measures for the relief of refugees. He dispatched two assistant min- isters to the war zone. One of them organized the so-called “South- ern Relief” (Yugo-Pomoshch) on the southwestern front and the other established a similar organization, known as the “Northern Relief” (Severo-Pomoshch) on the northwestern front. Apart from the activities of various organizations which came to be gradually formed to deal with the refugee problem, the work of the zemstvo institutions at the front steadily expanded. Along the routes taken by the refugees, whether by rail, water, or road, can- teens and dispensaries were established, together with hospitals and temporary shelters for orphans and lost children. The Union’s com- mittee of the southwestern front provided also guides, who were in- structed to look after the needs of a particular group of refugees, to comfort them, to see that the crowds were properly managed when boarding trains or ships, to protect them in every way, and to see that food and medical care were supplied along the road. The re- ports of the guides presented a gloomy picture of the migration of

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