Zemstvos

Even Russia, perhaps the most centralised of all, has its provincial councils, known as the Zemstvos, and it was one of M. Stolypin's most daring actions that he even broke the letter of the Russian Constitution in order to strengthen the Zemstvos of Eastern

Home Rule Second Edition Harold Spender 1895

And this dated from the time when well-to-do peasants who had factories, shops, and inns of their own were members of the Zemstvos, were dissatisfied with them, and took to swearing at the Zemstvos in their factories and inns.

The Witch, and other stories 2004

Western students of her history might do well, instead of sedulously collecting damaging evidence, to pay some attention to the building up of Russia's universities, the persistent efforts of the Zemstvos, the independence and the zeal of the press.

The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, 1915 Various

The property and institutions of the classes of nobility are transferred to the corresponding autonomous Zemstvos.

Appendix to Chapter XI 1922

All class institutions of any sort, with their property, their rules of procedure, and their archives, are transferred to the administration of the Municipalities and Zemstvos.

Appendix to Chapter XI 1922

Resolution, to inform the Dumas and Zemstvos of all Russia by telegraph.

Chapter 6. The Committee for Salvation 1922

During the war the Zemstvos gradually took over the entire feeding and clothing of the Russian Army, as well as the buying from foreign countries, and work among the soldiers generally corresponding to the work of the American Y.M. C.A. at the Front.

Notes and Explanations 1922

In wide-spreading ripples news of the miracle spread over the face of the land, and in its wake towns, cities and far villages stirred and broke, Soviets and Military Revolutionary Committees against Dumas, Zemstvos and Government Commissars—Red Guards against White—street fighting and passionate speech….

Chapter 8. Counter-Revolution 1922

On the 17th of November, for example, the Committee for Salvation addressed “all Municipal Governments, Zemstvos, and all democratic and revolutionary organisations of peasants, workers, soldiers and other citizens, ” in these words:

Chapter 11. The Conquest of Power 1922

After the March Revolution the Zemstvos were democratized, with a view to making them the organs of local government in the rural districts.

Notes and Explanations 1922