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 XI. Work in the army

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WORK IN THE ARMY followed and, angered by the persistent objections of the Zemstvo Union, Prince Oldenburg finally issued an order to confiscate the zemstvo trains and hand them over to the Red Cross Society. On second thought, however, he rescinded his order. Nevertheless mili- tary commanders were gradually appointed to an increasing num- ber of zemstvo trains and conflicts broke out. Petitions began to be received from the zemstvo staffs, asking for permission to resign their posts, and there seemed real danger that the entire organiza- tion would collapse. The Central Committee of the Union, having exhausted all possibilities of an amicable settlement, was compelled in November, 1916, to request the Ministry of War to take over the zemstvo trains.’ Until the outbreak of the Bolshevik Revolution, however, the trains were not transferred to the Ministry but con- tinued to operate under the direction of the Zemstvo Union. After the downfall of the Empire in March, 1917, the Provisional Government dispatched several zemstvo trains to Siberia with orders to take up and bring back to Petrograd and Moscow the political prisoners of the old régime who were languishing in prisons through- out Siberia. 199 Field Detachments: Organization and Purpose. It has already been shown under what conditions the first two field detachments of the Zemstvo Union left Moscow for General Brusilov’s army.” These detachments were organized in great haste and it was not yet known exactly what work they were to do. Ad- vantage was taken, no doubt, of the experience gained in the Japa- nese War in 1904, when the zemstvo detachments adapted them- selves to the changing conditions, organizing large, permanent hospitals far in the rear, field hospitals and canteens along the routes of the reinforcements and of the convoys of sick and wounded, as well as first-aid stations at the front. In 1914 the field detachments were equipped in a manner which would ensure a maxi- mum of adaptability to rapidly changing conditions. The staff of the first detachment was composed of two repre- sentatives of the Zemstvo Union, three doctors, and thirteen male ® See report of Central Committee of December 9, 1916, referring to the refusal of the Executive Committee to continue the management of the hos- pital trains, pp. 1-9. ' See below, p. 68.

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