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

164 THE ZEMSTVOS DURING THE WAR made to them. In the course of the next forty-five days a total sum of about 3,000,000 rubles was allocated to various local committees. No special funds for the relief of the refugees were however available in the treasury of the Central Committee of the Union, and in view of the existing emergency provision had to be made by borrowing from some other sources. On more than one occasion the President of the Union made urgent representations to the Ministry of the Interior for an emergency credit, but none of these telegrams elicited a reply. For the entire period only 500,000 rubles were granted by the Government to each of the two unions. On August 13 an official of the Ministry at last informed Prince Lvov that the question was being considered by the competent authorities and that no funds had as yet been assigned. At last, on September 21, the Zemstvo Union obtained an additional grant of 900,000 rubles, and, receiving no answer to his persistent requests, Prince Lvov was com- pelled on October 1 to telegraph to the Minister as follows: “In case we do not receive within the next few days the credit requested, the Zemstvo Union will be forced to discontinue its work for the relief of refugees.” Organization Proposed by the Union of Zemstvos and the Special Council. On September 7 to 9, 1915, a conference of commissioners of the Zemstvo Union met at Moscow and discussed the problem of refugee relief. The meeting came to the conclusion that it was the duty of the Government to support the refugees and that it could be done successfully only by coérdinating in a proper manner the work of all the public agencies under the auspices of the Unions of Zem- stvos and of Towns. The conference gave its approval to the or- ganization of a joint committee to carry out this work, to be com- posed of an equal number of representatives of the two unions. It was the unanimous opinion of the zemstvo representatives that the funds for this purpose should be allotted through the medium of the Unions of Zemstvos and of Towns, which would keep in touch with the Government and would distribute the appropriations among the local organs. The conference also drew up a set of in- structions for the organization of public health work among the refugees, directing particular attention to the care of their children. When these resolutions were passed the joint committee for relief

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