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 XIV. Changes in the basic principles of local government during the war

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CHAPTER XIV CHANGES IN THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT DURING THE WAR Proposed Changes. Berore the War the State Duma had devoted not a little attention to legislation aiming at the further extension of the rights and duties of the institutions of local government, and several such measures, although only of secondary importance, were enacted. Certain essential reforms, however, which had for a long time past become urgently necessary, could not be carried through, some of them because a sufficient ma jority could not be obtained for them in the Duma, others because bills approved by the Duma were re- jected by the Upper House (the State Council), as was the case with the bill to introduce a volost zemstvo organization. With the outbreak of the War, the chances of introducing certain indispensable reforms were at once improved, as the Progressive Bloc which was formed in the Duma? included in its legislative pro- gram a bill dealing with the reform of local government. It provided for an extension of the functions of the zemstvos and lowered the qualifications for zemstvo franchise; it also demanded the abolition of class divisions in the electoral system and it insisted upon the for- mation of volost zemstvos and the introduction of local government institutions throughout the Empire, including Siberia. The efforts of the Duma tended in this direction throughout the War, until the Revolution of February-March, 1917. The Provisional Government. The Provisional Government which emerged from the Revolution, in reorganizing the political life of Russia on principles of liberty and democracy, made it one of the fundamental points of its legis- lative program to introduce basic reforms in local government. At best, several months would have been required to put the new laws into effect; the Revolution, however, would not tolerate even this ' See P. P. Gronsky, The Central Government in the volume The War and the Russian Government (Yale University Press, 1929) in this series of the Economic and Social History of the World War.

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