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 XIII. The Joint Committee of the unions of Zemstvos and of towns for the supply of military equipment and munitions

Collection:: Economics Books

THE ZEMGOR dispatched from Moscow to Riga to assist in the evacuation was about sixty.* 279 The Zemgor’s Own Industrial Undertakings. Stores and equipment evacuated from the front could not always be properly utilized. The Government remained satisfied with sav- ing the machinery, equipment, and raw materials from capture by the enemy, and then these stores would perhaps become mere useless encumbrances. They occupied rolling stock that was urgently needed for other purposes and the Government was only too glad to get rid of them. j Entirely different was the attitude taken in this matter by the Unions of Zemstvos and of Towns, as has been shown in the preced- ing pages. Their view regarding the evacuations from localities threatened by the enemy was that industries working for the needs of the War must be enabled to continue operations. This is why the assistance already described was rendered by the Zemgor to the owners of evacuated establishments. In those cases, however, where owners showed themselves disinclined to resume work in new places, the Zemgor tried to purchase their plants and set them to work with its own resources. It thus happened that factories and other industrial works were often established which had no direct relation to the supply of the army. At first, these establishments produced only for the general market, but gradually they were adapted to manufacture products required by the army. In this way there came into existence fifty different factories and other industrial undertakings owned by the Zemgor. The following is a brief descrip- tion of a few of these establishments. The needle factory. This factory had been owned by a German firm in Riga and was requisitioned and evacuated to Moscow with all its workers and part of the administration. At first the factory continued to produce needles, turning out 8,000,000 to 10,000,000 a month. These needles were sold to the zemstvos, cooperative so- cleties, and so on. At the same time the factory undertook the pro- duction of a type of needles that used to be imported exclusively * The foregoing description of the evacuation of Riga follows almost literally, but with considerable omissions, the text of a report submitted by N. N. Kovalevsky, a member of the Zemgor Central Committee; see Izvestia (Bulletin) of the Zemgor, Nos. 2-3, pp. 58-64.

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