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 II. Activities of the zemstvo institutions on the eve of the war

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ACTIVITIES BEFORE THE WAR 37 The expenditure of all provincial and district zemstvos for 1914 was as follows: Expenditure in 1914. Education Public health Public welfare Agronomic and economic measures Veterinary services Roads Maintenance of administration Other expenditure, service of debts, etc. Total In rubles 106,975,000 82,574,000 5,147,000 28,896,000 10,462,000 17,511,000 23,434,000 72,513,000 847.512.000 These figures do not cover, however, the whole of the revenue and expenditure. They do not include the trading activities of the zem- stvos nor their insurance work, which was carried on with a special insurance fund. If we include these items, there can be no doubt that the zemstvo budget for 1914 was in excess of 400,000,000 rubles. The Russian Government budget for 1914 was 3,600,000,000 rubles, or only nine times as large as the zemstvo budget for the forty-three provinces. Notwithstanding the extraordinary growth of the government budget during the few years immediately preceding the World War, the zemstvo budgets were expanding more rapidly. The budget of the zemstvos in thirty-four provinces increased from 171,687,700 rubles in 1910 to 292,049,800 rubles in 1914; during the same period the state budget increased from 2,522,000,000 rubles to 8,613,000,000 rubles. While the state budget increased by only 39 per cent during these four years, the zemstvo budget in- creased by "70 per cent. The vast importance of the zemstvos in the life of the Russian state prior to the War becomes still more apparent when we com- pare, not the budgetary totals, but the appropriations made for the various branches of state and zemstvo activity. Thus, under the budget of 1914, the government expenditure under the head of Min- istry of Education amounted to 155,300,000 rubles, whereas the expenditure of all the zemstvos on education amounted to 107,000,- 000 rubles; government appropriations for the Ministry of Agricul- ture were 145,000,000 rubles; the expenditure of the zemstvos for

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