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 233 reckon with local regulations and ordinances issued by the commis- sioners of the Ministry of Agriculture, who were empowered to im- pose embargoes. But even when the consignment of goods was not prohibited, there was still the difficulty of obtaining without delay the necessary rolling stock, a difficulty that was constantly increas- ing. Under such conditions the supply department of the Union in Moscow found it impossible to carry on its operations with the promptitude that was essential, and was compelled to overlook the independent and chaotic purchasing operations undertaken by indi- vidual institutions at the front. It was clearly realized on every hand that the anarchy in supply would ruin the country; but the paper schemes devised in Petrograd as a remedy were in any case doomed to failure, owing to bureaucratic red tape. The purchasing agents of the Union simply carried on their operations by ignoring com- pletely all the barriers and obstacles that were being put in their way by these interminable ordinances, laws, and regulations. The following complaints received in November, 1916, from the Union’s committee of the southwestern front afford an illustration of the nature of these obstacles. Every day [reads the report] brings new instances of the endless >bstacles that are being placed in the way of the purchasing commis- sion in its work of buying goods for the institutions of the Zemstvo Union. These obstacles consist principally in the embargoes in the pur- chase and conveyance of one or another kind of commodity. Lately, it has frequently happened that goods which had been already purchased have been requisitioned. Such measures, apart from the direct harm that they cause, tend to undermine the confidence of the officers of the Union, since they nullify all their work. Frequently a permit issued by the commissioners of the Ministry of Agriculture, which could not be ased immediately for lack of rolling-stock, is revoked without warning. Orders given and dispositions taken in our favor by the commissioners of the Ministry are rendered null and void by unexpected orders from higher authorities. A large number of purchases already concluded have had to be cancelled on account of failure to obtain permits for loading and consigning. . . . There are instances when a request sup- ported by the military authorities had been rejected by the Special Council on Food Supply. . . . To these embargoes and requisitions we have to add the obstacles placed in our way by the railways, as, for instance, sudden embargoes on consignments in certain directions.

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