Zemstvo

But the Napoleonic Code remained operative in the kingdom, and the zemstvo reforms in Russia were not instituted in the kingdom for fear that they would be used for nationalist purposes. ❋ Unknown (2001)

These counterreforms included the establishment of land captains, gentry named by the minister of the interior to provide direct supervision of peasants (1889), and the creation of a distinct group for the gentry in the zemstvo system with increased representation (1890). ❋ Unknown (2001)

This group consisted largely of intellectuals, members of the liberal professions, and zemstvo workers. ❋ Unknown (2001)

At the same time Stolypin, with cooperation of the Duma, continued his reform activities: social insurance, zemstvo reform, education, police reorganization, land banks, encouragement of emigration to Siberia. ❋ Unknown (2001)

The assembly appointed an executive committee which is in permanent session, but the zemstvo assembles once a year. ❋ R. Van Bergen (N/A)

Above the district zemstvo is the goubernkoé zemstvo or provincial assembly, whose members are elected from the district zemstvos. ❋ R. Van Bergen (N/A)

The power of the zemstvos themselves was lessened by taking from them such important functions as the provisioning of famine-stricken districts and by limiting in the most arbitrary manner the amount of the budget permitted to each zemstvo. ❋ John Spargo (1921)

The zemstvo of former times was made up of only class representatives; _the elections to the new zemstvos were effected by universal suffrage, equal, direct, and secret_. ❋ John Spargo (1921)

The zemstvo of Saratov was one of the best in Russia. ❋ John Spargo (1921)

Finally, many of the liberal zemstvo leaders formed themselves into a political party -- the Union of Liberation -- with a special organ of its own, called _Emancipation_. ❋ John Spargo (1921)

The representatives of each county constituted a county-zemstvo and the representatives elected by all the county-zemstvos in a province constituted a province-zemstvo. ❋ John Spargo (1921)

The excuse given by the apologists for the central administration was that the local councils, the zemstvo councils, were becoming too intimate with the Duma, that they were coming too much into relations with the Duma, and that these created danger for the stability of the crown. ❋ Unknown (1917)

Profits in the manufacturing industry generally in Russia has averaged not less that 15% in spite of the zemstvo taxes, which are separate from the general tax, and in many cases goes as high as 50%. ❋ Unknown (1917)

A town-duma or zemstvo member is supported by the amorphous mass of electors, which entrusts its full powers to him for a year and then breaks up. ❋ Leon Davidovich Trotzky (1909)

It is said that the manuscript was given to Nilus by Sukhotin, the notorious zemstvo official of Chernsk. ❋ Herman Bernstein (1905)

Tsurikov was removed for this, while Sukhotin justified his act by writing to the Minister of the Interior, Durnovo, that he had arrested the peasants not because they refused to cart his manure but because they dared disobey him as a zemstvo official. ❋ Herman Bernstein (1905)

But I work for the zemstvo, I am a member of the district council, and I consider my service as worthy and as high as the service of science. ❋ Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1882)

Lists of such works which came under the notice of the zemstvo statisticians will be found in V. V.'s Peasant Community, pp. 459-600. ❋ Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin (1881)

Lenin's professional revolutionary had to be as comfortable in a secret union meeting as in a peasant hut or a zemstvo gathering. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Also I bet yer when it comes to a zemstvo, the Mexicans don't know even now whether you dance it to a guitar and cascanet accompaniment or eat it with garlic and chili sauce. " ❋ Montague Glass (1905)