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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k THE ZEMSTVOS DURING THE WAR Assistance to Farmers. At the beginning of their career the zemstvos, as stated above, devoted their principal attention to questions of education and pub- lic health, and it was only on a later date that they became seriously concerned with measures of economic welfare. Nevertheless, at the outbreak of the War the activities of the zemstvos in this field had assumed a very important character. First of all we have to note the zemstvo organization of agricul- tural aid. In this field the Government rendered the zemstvos very substantial support by means of large subsidies. Moreover, this was practically the only zemstvo activity in which, thanks to the high standard of the personnel of the Ministry of Agriculture, the local representatives of the Government were able to work in close collabo- ration with the zemstvos and their agricultural experts. In 1914 the forty-three zemstvo provinces had a total of 7,410 members of vari- ous agronomic staffs, of which the zemstvos controlled 5,806 and the Government 1,604. The distribution of functions between gov- ernment and zemstvo agronomists was adapted to local conditions arranged to meet the requirements of practical work. In those provinces or districts where, for various reasons, the as- sistance of the zemstvos to the farmers was little developed, the main burden of this work was left to the government officers, but this was an exception to the general rule. In 1914 there were only two zem- stvo provinces, Mogilev and Stavropol, where more government than zemstvo agronomists were at work, and this only because the zem- stvos had been established there recently. How important was the part played by the zemstvos in advancing agriculture may be seen from a comparison of the following figures. In 1912 the zemstvos appropriated for this purpose in forty zem- stvo provinces the sum of 12,185,000 rubles, while the Ministry of Agriculture spent for the same purpose throughout European and Asiatic Russia the sum of 17,920,000 rubles, of which only 6,149, 000 rubles was allotted to the zemstvo provinces. Other Measures for the Advancement of Agriculture. Among other measures of the zemstvos for agricultural improve- ment we have to note the following. Model fields and farms. These were under the management of ex-

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