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 XII. The Central Committee of the union of Zemstvos in the third year of the war

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244 THE ZEMSTVOS DURING THE WAR eign banks. The operations of the purchasing commissions sent to London and New York made good progress. These commissions supplied principally medical goods, including more than two hun- dred different articles, absorbent cotton, coffee, and pepper. The budget for 1917 provided for purchases amounting to more than 20,000,000 rubles, including 6,060,000 rubles to be spent on pur- chases for the Union of Towns. In America, leather and boots were bought, as well as large quantities of tools and accessories. For auto- mobiles and spare parts alone, the orders placed in the United States amounted to $1,500,000, in England to £100,000, and in Italy to 1,000,000 lire. All shipments were directed via Archangel but the new railroad line leading to this port was unable to cope with the traffic. It thus became necessary to establish a special bureau at Archangel which obtained possession of cargoes consigned to the Union and made special arrangements for their dispatch. Brief mention has already been made of the reorganization that was carried out in the purchasing machinery at the center. It was no longer proposed that the reorganized supply department should attend to all the individual purchases. The purchasing commission at Moscow now acted merely as a general directing organ. It ex- amined samples of goods and prices, and issued permits for indi- vidual purchases exceeding 5,000 rubles in value. As for the investi- gation of market conditions, the necessary negotiations on the spot, and the submission of applications for permits to buy and consign goods, these were all left to the various purchasing commissions scattered throughout Russia. In these commissions the agents of the committees of the front took a very active part. Goods were com- pared with the samples both at the place of loading and at the point of destination. Transactions not exceeding 5,000 rubles in value were negotiated independently by the purchasing commissions, and occasionally even by the agents of the committees of the front (in emergency cases not provided for by the budgets). The central supply department was largely occupied with con- flicts with the railway officials. All the requests made by the Zemstvo Union for an equal treatment of its consignments with those of the Army Supply Department remained unsuccessful. According to the 'Lloyd’s Bank in England, the National City Bank in America, the Enskielda Bank in Sweden, the Handels Bank in Denmark, and the Comp: toir National d’Escompte in France.

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