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 work fell properly within the sphere of activities of the Zemstvo Union. Zemstvo committees for the supply of the army were there- upon established by all provincial and district zemstvos. Their first task was to “mobilize the industry, large and small, and to organize, with the aid of the zemstvos, the scattered technical resources of the country.” As early as July, 1915, the Zemstvo Union received from the War Department millions of rubles’ worth of orders for various articles of military equipment and munitions. Among these we find not only the usual articles of supply issued by the Army Supply Depart- ment, such as wagons, harness; field kitchens, horseshoes, tarpaulins, knapsacks, saddles, etc., but likewise shells for the artillery and other highly technical articles, such as mortars, hand grenades, trench tools, field telephones. All such orders were immediately distributed among the local organs of the Zemstvo Union, and, in addition to these, the Central Committee established its own plants, including one for the manufacture of three- and six-inch shells, and factories to produce sulphuric acid, telephones, tarpaulins, and so on. Representatives of the Union of Zemstvos and the Union of Towns had expressed a strong desire that the two unions should co- operate more closely in equipping and supplying the army. The re- sult was that representatives of both unions met in J uly, 1915, and formed a separate executive committee for the supply of the army, known as the Zemgor, which hereafter took charge of these respon- sible tasks. 73

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