Die Nationalökonomie in Frankreich

Russian local government during the war and the Union of Zemstvos

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Identifikator:: 890892032

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-34137

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Author:: Waha, Raymund de http://d-nb.info/gnd/117560855

Title:: Die Nationalökonomie in Frankreich

Place of publication:: Stuttgart

Publisher:: Verlag von Ferdinand Enke

Year of publication:: 1910

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (XIX, 540 Seiten)

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Buch III Interventionismus, Solidarismus und Protektionismus

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182 THE ZEMSTVOS DURING THE WAR located to the Special Council on Food Supply a sum of 30,000,000 rubles for the supply of foodstuffs to the population, and this fund was used to grant loans to the institutions of local government. Up to February 5, 1916, the sum of 3,510,000 rubles had been ad- vanced from it to 9 provincial and 50 district zemstvos. By May 4, 1916, the number of zemstvos which had obtained loans from the Special Council had already risen to 88, and if we add to this num- ber those zemstvos which had previously obtained loans out of the ore-war food supply fund, we obtain a total of 120 out of a grand ‘otal of 483 provincial and district zemstvos. By the beginning of 1917, the food supply operations of the zem- stvos had developed to such an extent that neither their own ap- propriations nor the government loans sufficed any longer to finance them. The zemstvos found themselves compelled to seek large short- erm loans from private banks. Such loans were concluded in the majority of cases under government guarantee. Operating capital for the purchase and the distribution of sup- plies reached considerable sums and steadily increased. Thus, the provincial zemstvo of Kostroma bought between September 1, 1915, and September 1, 1916, goods to the value of 8,655,224 rubles, and sold goods to the value of 8,775,621 rubles; in the course of the next three months it was able to sell goods to the value of 2,001,318 rubles. The figures of the appropriations, loans, and government ad- vances varied greatly as between the different zemstvos. Naturally, the zemstvos in the north, having to supply the population with grain as well as other commodities, had to spend more money than ‘hose in the south, where the problem of food supply had not yet arisen. Thus, we find that the provincial zemstvo of Tver received from the Government a loan of 500,000 rubles; that of Vladimir of 75,000 rubles ; the district zemstvo of Yurev in the province of Kos- troma of 48,000 rubles; that of Uglich in the province of Podolia of 50,000 rubles; that of Lipetsk in the province of Tambov of 25,000 rubles; and so forth. The Moscow provincial zemstvo was the first to undertake the supply of foodstuffs to the civilian population, doing this as early as in May, 1916. Foreseeing an increase of prices in the near future, this zemstvo appropriated 1,000,000 rubles for the purchase of four and other foodstuffs. Its example was soon followed by other

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