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zemstvo
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zemst·vo  (zmstv, zymstv)
n. pl. zemst·vos
An elective council responsible for the local administration of a provincial district in czarist Russia.
[Russian, from Old Russian zem, land; see dhghem- in Indo-European roots.]
zemstvo [ˈzɛmstvəʊ (Russian) ˈzjɛmstvə]
n pl -stvos
(Historical Terms) (in tsarist Russia) an elective provincial or district council established in most provinces of Russia by Alexander II in 1864 as part of his reform policy
[from Russian, from zemlya land; related to Latin humus earth, Greek khamai on the ground]
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While state ministries took the lead in trying to organize large-scale resettlement, zemstvos and other public organizations, like relief societies and local agricultural committees, actively assisted in the process because resettlement was widely regarded as the kind of "all-national cause" (vsenarodnoe delo) that seemed to require educated society's (obshchestvo) commitment and participation.
PEASANT PIONEERING: RUSSIAN PEASANT SETTLERS DESCRIBE COLONIZATION ... by Sunderland, Willard / Journal of Social History
 
 
 
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