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 III. Origin and organization of the All-Russian Union of Zemstvos

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ORIGIN OF THE UNION 57 The local organs of the Zemstvo Union were the provincial and district committees. Their organization and procedure were left to the discretion of the provincial zemstvo. Funds appropriated by the provincial zemstvos for the relief of sick and wounded soldiers were paid into the central treasury of the Union. The latter then allo- cated them to the provincial committees, and these, in turn, to the district committees. Very soon, the central treasury began to re- ceive donations and contributions from all over Russia, partly in cash and partly in kind (linen, warm clothing, etc.). Later, the Gov- ernment, availing itself of the resources of the Union, gave it steadily increasing orders to supply the army with equipment and provisions, placing at the disposal of the Union large sums to enable it to carry out these orders. Prince Lvov was elected President of the Union. M. Shlippe, chairman of the Moscow provincial zemstvo board. was chosen to act in his absence. About a week after the organization of the Union, Prince Lvov had an audience with the Emperor. In the course of the conversa- tion, Prince Lvov thus explained the aims of the new Union: The All-Russian Union of Zemstvos was formed only about a week ago. Its organization is of the simplest. A Central Committee has been formed at Moscow, and provincial and district committees locally. The whole organization has been built, not according to rigid and elaborate statutes, but on a basis of a powerful desire for collaboration. Out of their own resources, the zemstvos have been able to assign 12,000,000 rubles for the relief of the wounded. Our function is to receive the wounded from the army, transfer them to the hospitals, equip hospital trains and hospitals, heal our wounded soldiers and then send them hack to their homes.* The Emperor received this report with the same sympathy he had shown for the similar zemstvo organization in 1904. But among the higher government officials, the reaction to the Emperor’s expression of pleasure with the zemstvo enterprise was now quite different from what it had been ten years earlier. The events that were taking place seemed far too grave and ominous to admit of opposition to this useful enterprise, and, moreover, there had been a change in the meantime in the relations between the Government and the public. '* Report (Obzor Deyatelnosti) of the Central Committee, p. 80.

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