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

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THE ZEMGOR The work of the Zemstvo Union in the matter of protection against gas attacks has already been described. The anti-gas section of the Zemgor likewise took an active part in this work. The scien- tists who were enlisted by this section succeeded in making numerous observations at the front and in collecting samples of the enemy’s gases, which were later subjected to chemical analysis. In Moscow and Petrograd, experimental gas attacks were made at places spe- cially set aside for this purpose on the outskirts of the city. Many lectures dealing with chemical warfare were delivered to the troops and a popular pamphlet published. Lastly, the chemical section of the Zemgor constructed batteries for the delivery of gas attacks, and they were placed along the front. The Zemgor also established in Moscow large depots where the articles manufactured in its workshops and factories were for sale at cost prices. They were supplied to the representatives of the army units who visited the capital in search for goods they could not ob- tain from the Army Supply Department. 285 Conclusion. In summing up our survey of the work of the Zemgor we are un- able to say that it succeeded in aiding the army at the moment when it was most urgently in need of munitions. This was indeed the ob- ject which the joint committee of the Unions of Zemstvos and of Towns set before itself in the summer of 1915. It found it impos- sible, however, notwithstanding its best efforts, to create within a short time such a vast organization as was required for the supply of munitions. The larger factories were under the control of the government officials and of the war industries committees, and the Zemgor was left with only the smaller factories and the peasant cottage industries. The overwhelming majority of the establish- ments controlled by the Zemgor not only lacked the machinery re- quired for the manufacture of munitions, but they knew little or nothing about the work itself. The necessary machinery had never been manufactured in Russia, so that it was necessary either to build up a new industry or to order machinery from abroad: in either case a long delay was unavoidable. The Zemgor did not complete > Izvestia (Bulletin) of the Zemgor, No. 183, pp. 64-66.

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