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 X. Participation of the Zemstvos in the work of supply

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ORGANIZATION OF SUPPLY 183 provincial zemstvos in the north. Thus, the zemstvo of Vladimir as- signed for a similar purpose the sum of 650,000 rubles in July, 1915, while the zemstvo of Petrograd made an appropriation of 4,400,000 rubles. As a typical example of the organization of the food supply for the civilian population, we may quote here a resolution adopted by the zemstvo assembly of Temnikov (province of Tambov) on De- cember 9, 1916. By this resolution it was decided (1) to apply for a loan from credits granted to the Special Council on Food Supply, of the amount of 100,000 rubles, with the object of combating the high cost of living; (2) to leave it to the discretion of the board to organize the purchase and distribution and to increase the stocks of articles of prime necessity with a view to their sale at cost price through the medium of the local codperative stores, agricultural loan societies, and zemstvo warehouses; (3) to permit the zemstvo funds to extend credits to the consumers’ coéperative societies ; and, (4) in the event of the Government’s refusal to grant the loan, to obtain a short-term loan of 100,000 rubles from the municipal and zemstvo banks. The food supply work of the zemstvos and their Union was car- ried out by the provincial and district zemstvos. The committees of the Union took little part in it. The Central Committee of the Zem- stvo Union concerned itself with this problem only in the second half of 1916, when a subcommittee was instructed to work out a detailed plan of food supply. This subcommittee, however, was the last to be organized, and as it operated only for a few months prior to the Revolution it succeeded in accomplishing very little. It organized a representation of the Zemstvo Union in all commissions of the Spe- cial Council on Food Supply. These representatives then combined into a separate committee, to which a secretariat at Petrograd was attached. A special bureau was also set up at Petrograd to make sure that the food supply measures of the zemstvos received proper consideration in the Special Council and other government institu- tions. Instructors were trained, to be placed at the disposal of the local food supply organizations, and several zemstvo conferences on food supply were held. They discussed various economic problems and prepared valuable reports dealing with the organization of supply.® 8 Izvestia (Bulletin), Nos. 52-53, pp. 81-32.

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