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 V. The Zemstvos and the Zemstvo Union

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THE ZEMSTVOS AND THE UNION 79 method of organizing the provincial and district committees of the Union, as well as the smaller local organs, is to be left to the discre- tion of the local zemstvos.” As a matter of fact, conditions differed greatly in the various localities and frequently required special methods of work. The organization of the local institutions was by no means uniform. There were provincial zemstvos that did not find it necessary even to appoint provincial committees. Such zemstvos would either entrust their war work to their regular boards, au- thorizing them to enlist the services of outsiders, or would select from among their own number representatives to take part in the local official or Red Cross organizations. This was the case in the provinces of Bessarabia, Olonets, Tula, Pskov, and Taurida. These zemstvos however were not very numerous, and most zemstvos did form special committees. Some of the provinces adopted for this purpose the comparatively simple plan followed by the Moscow zemstvo.® This was done by the provinces of Vitebsk, Vyatka, Ka- luga, and Yaroslav. At other places we find provincial committees of an exceedingly motley composition. Here are a few examples. At Nizhni-Novgorod the provincial committee added to its membership a large number of local civic leaders, representatives of various gov- ernment institutions and of municipal bodies, so that its total mem- bership reached about forty. At Kostroma the provincial committee was composed of the provincial zemstvo board, the marshal of the nobility, deputies chosen for the Moscow Conference, the chief of the sanitation bureau, the senior physicians of the zemstvo hos- pitals, the senior municipal medical officer, representatives of the district committees, and of the bureau for collections. At Kiev the committee numbered seventy-four members, including representa- tives of all hospitals. The Stavropol committee included the pro- vincial zemstvo board, six members of the zemstvo assembly, two zemstvo voters, a representative of the municipality, the chief of the sanitation department, a representative of the administration for ® The Moscow arrangement was as follows: the provincial committee was composed of ten members chosen by the assembly, of the entire membership of the provincial zemstvo board, of one representative for each district com- mittee, of one member of the provincial zemstvo sanitation bureau, and of one representative of the provincial sanitation board. The district committee was composed of five members appointed by the assembly, and of all the members of the district zemstvo board.

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