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

Collection:: Economics Books

THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE 269 lied countries for the purpose of acquainting itself with the organi- zation of their army medical services. In the second half of 1916 the Zemstvo Union had grown to such an extent as to constitute a veritable state within a state. Its annual budget had risen to the huge sum of 600,000,000 rubles and was growing uninterruptedly. Hundreds of thousands of persons, women as well as men, drawn from all paths of life, were employed directly and indirectly in the service of the Union. Donations were con- stantly flowing into its treasury. Gifts and parcels for the troops were being received in such quantities that they had to be sent to the front by special trains in charge of special commissioners. While it cannot be said that cash donations played any considerable part in the enormous budget of the Union, it should be noted that these small gifts and contributions in cash came from every part of the country and all classes of the population, thus demonstrating the confidence that the Union enjoyed. Of course, there were instances now and then of important gifts. Thus one donor, who preferred to remain anonymous, presented the Union with a splendid estate cov- ering about 8,500 deciatines in the rich black soil belt of south Rus- sia, in the district of Epiphan, province of Tula, on condition that the Union should open in this estate elementary, secondary, and higher agricultural schools for the instruction of peasant children. The estate included arable land, meadows on the Don River, forests and coal mines, and its market price was about 1,000,000 rubles. A gift of this kind testified not only to a great deal of confidence in the Union, but also to the conviction of the donor that the Union would exist for many years after the War—a conviction shared by the public throughout Russia.

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