In January, 1895, the czar received a deputation of all classes of his subjects who hinted that the zemstvos might be used as the germ of a constitutional government.
Five days after war was declared a congress of all the Zemstvosmet in Moscow and organized the Russian Union of Zemstvos.
The Zemstvos proved highly effective training schools in which the peasants could learn self-government and parliamentary procedure.
Lvov, who as president of the Union of Zemstvos had proved himself to be a democrat of the most liberal school as well as an extraordinarily capable organizer.
The National Union of Zemstvos did the same thing.
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.
It must be remembered that the zemstvos were the only representative public bodies elected by any large part of the people.
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.
Some of the zemstvos were suspended and disbanded for certain periods of time.
Instead of being very limited in their powers as the oldzemstvos were, the new zemstvos were charged with all the ordinary functions of local government.
The zemstvos were no longer an active part of the revolutionary movement.
Taking advantage of the new conditions, the leaders of the zemstvos organized a national convention.
Presently, the leaders of the zemstvos followed the example of the revolutionists and held a secret convention at which a program for common action was agreed upon.
This weapon Von Plehve used with great effect; the most reasonable actions of the zemstvos were vetoed for no other reason than hatred of any sort of representative government.
The newspapers and magazines of the zemstvos became more and more critical of the government, more and more outspoken in denunciation of existing conditions.
Several of the Zemstvos have grappled with this question of peasant impoverishment, and the data which they have collected make a very doleful impression.
What the bureaucracy, in its zeal to defend the integrity of the Autocratic Power, feared most of all was combination for a common purpose on the part of the Zemstvos of different provinces.
It was not till about the year 1885 that it was recognised to be more urgent than had been supposed, and some Zemstvos perceived that the people might starve before its preparatory education was completed.
As an illustration of this I may cite the fact that several Zemstvos have declared themselves unable, under present conditions, to support the indigent families of soldiers at the front.
From the Zemstvos and municipalities the spirit of opposition spread to the provincial assemblies of the Noblesse.
Resolution, to inform the Dumas and Zemstvosof all Russia by telegraph.
The Central City Duma of Petrograd appeals to all Dumas and Zemstvos of the Russian Republic to rally to the defence of one of the greatest conquests of the Russian Revolution—the independence and inviolability of popular self-government.
Several Zemstvos fell into their hands, and were practically controlled by them, and they contrived to gain considerable influence in the elections to the Duma.
The army committees, the municipalities, the zemstvos continued to bombard the Smolny with threatening telegrams in which they declared outright war upon us and promised to sweep the insurgents out within a short time.
This is exactly what explains the gravitation toward dumas and zemstvos on the part of those parties which were losing more and more ground in the esteem of the revolutionary class.
More than once, the Philistines called our attention to the fact that the new dumas and zemstvoselected on the basis of universal suffrage, were incomparably more democratic than the Soviets and were more suited to represent the population.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "zemstvos" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
