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 IV. General outline of the work of the Union of Zemstvos

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WORK OF THE UNION cluding an automobile department, department for the purchase of horses, financial, statistical, audit, anti-gas, disabled soldiers, Rus- sian prisoners of war, refugees. 71] Relations with the Army. Undismayed by this steadily increasing complexity, the zemstvo authorities at the front were expanding their work continuously and with undiminished enthusiasm. With the army, the Zemstvo Union had succeeded in establishing relations based on absolute mutual confidence. Whenever some unforeseen need arose, the military au- thorities appealed to the representatives of the Zemstvo Union, and in no instance did they fail to comply with the request. A plan would immediately be drafted, together with a tentative estimate, after which the army leader whom it might concern would carefully dis- cuss it at his headquarters and, if approved, affix his signature; the statement would then be forwarded to Moscow for further action. Moscow would send it on to the competent authorities at Petrograd, but these very frequently caused long delays, pared down the estimates and, generally speaking, appeared inclined to haggle; still, they very seldom refused to make appropriations for such requests from the front. Meantime, while these tedious negotiations were in progress at the capital, the work was already proceeding actively at the front, where it would be started without delay immediately upon receipt of the request from the military authorities, the money for this purpose being advanced by the Central Committee to the front committees. Growth of Expenditure. The activity of nearly 8,000 institutions employing hundreds of thousands of agents in one capacity or another naturally demanded an ever Increasing expenditure. We saw that at the beginning of the War the combined resources of the Zemstvo Union did not ex- ceed 12,000,000 rubles. During the first year of its work, however, the Union received from the Government 72,241,050 rubles (up to June 26, 1915), to reimburse it for sums already expended.® Six months later, that is, by J anuary 1, 1916, the total sum appro- priated by the Government for the needs of the Zemstvo Union had * Izvestia (Bulletin) of the Central Committee, No. 20, pp. 25-34.

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