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

Collection:: Economics Books

WORK IN THE ARMY available at the moment. Lastly, modest little canteens were opened in connection with the bathing stations, for the sale to soldiers at cost price of various articles in most common use. It would be difficult to enumerate all the activities of these zem- stvo detachments. Suffice it to say that they served the needs of the army with genuine devotion; a representative of the army had merely to hint at the existence of this or that particular need, and the Union at once made every effort to satisfy it. Sometimes this would be done even without any request from the army authorities, the detachments themselves taking the initiative. For instance, the detachments took a very active part in the work of inoculation against cholera and typhoid fever. Among other things, they ob- tained from Moscow large numbers of gas masks and distributed them among the troops. Their care for the hygiene of the army went so far that they undertook to remove and bury the carcasses of dead cattle and horses, and to look after the general sanitary conditions. At the very first request from the military authorities the detach- ments organized carpenters’ shops, machine shops, shops for the re- pair of harness and even rifles, and there were instances in which the technical experts of the Union set idle sawmills to work again in order to provide timber for the trenches. Another branch of activity was the maintenance of field post offices as near as possible to the trenches for the benefit of the soldiers. The detachments also, when- ever requested to do so by the military authorities, undertook the feeding of labor battalions and other workers connected with various army establishments. The relief of refugees and of civilian population was not confined to the supply of food and medical assistance. Many detachments used to lend their horses to the peasants for agricultural work. They also assisted in the harvesting of the crops which the refugees had been obliged to abandon in their flight. Other detachments, again, collected the children who were left either without parents or with- out homes and sent them in groups to the various Moscow asylums under the care of specially appointed attendants. It is impossible to reduce the manifold activities of these detach- ments to mere figures. Nor is it at all desirable that the work ac- complished by the detachments should be regarded solely in its statistical aspect, since that would give us, after all, a very limited conception of its true importance. These undertakings inevitably 207

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