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 169 bodies, the central labor exchange expanded its work of regulating local supply and demand, forming large groups of workers for em- ployers applying to the exchanges, studying labor markets and wage conditions. Beginning by serving the needs of refugees only, the central labor exchange gradually extended its activities to the entire labor market and rendered considerable service to Russian agriculture during the season of 1916. The statistical subcommittee made it its business to ascertain the extent and direction of the movement of refugees and to watch the work of the canteens. Later, it intended also to take a census of refugee families on a uniform plan. The local committees were fully aware of the importance of such a census, and in most of the prov- inces they took it in accordance with the program laid down by the statistical subcommittees, in spite of all the obstacles placed in their way by the Ministry of the Interior and its local organs. A Statistical Analysis of the Refugee Movement. According to the figures obtained by the subcommittee, the num- ber of refugees rose from 105,000 on the first day of registration to 205,000 on October 5, 1915, after which it began to decline rapidly, falling as low as 13,000 on November 5. After this date the decline continued, dropping as low as 2,000 or 3,000 toward the end of No- vember, 1915.® Simultaneously the number of refugees served by the canteens also declined. The statistical subcommittee also published information regard- ing refugees who had settled down. The number of such refugees on July 1, 1916, was 2,820,031, distributed over sixty-four provinces and territories of European and Asiatic Russia. The wave of this great migration reached the remotest corners of the Empire, Vladivostok on the Pacific and Tashkent in Central Asia. The largest number of refugees settled in new places were discovered in the province of Ekaterinoslav, namely 242,406, of whom about 50,000 had taken up their abode in the city of Ekaterinoslav itself, numbers equal respectively to 7.01 per cent of the native popula- tion of the entire province and 28.7 per cent of the residents of the city. The lowest percentage of refugees was found in Bessarabia. 3 Izvestia (Bulletin), No. 82, p. 99.

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