HISTORY
WORLD WAR I AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
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A unit of measurement in Imperial Russia, equal to 26.7 cm.
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A local council set up by Alexander II
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The name of the national assembly in Imperial Russia
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The currency of Imperial Russia
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Detailed explanation-1: -A zemstvo (Russian: , IPA: [ˈzʲɛmstvə], plural zemstva – Russian: ) was an institution of local government set up during the great emancipation reform of 1861 carried out in Imperial Russia by Emperor Alexander II of Russia.
Detailed explanation-2: -In 1890, a law was established wherein peasants (who owned small parcels of land), were stripped of their voting rights. Instead, they were allowed to only suggest representatives, who could be accepted at the sole discretion of the nobility of the Zemstvo.
Detailed explanation-3: -Alexander weakened the power of the zemstvo (elective local administrative bodies) and placed the administration of peasant communes under the supervision of land-owning proprietors appointed by his government, “land captains” (zemskiye nachalniki).
Detailed explanation-4: -Alexander’s bureaucracy instituted an elaborate scheme of local self-government (zemstvo) for the rural districts (1864) and the large towns (1870), with elective assemblies possessing a restricted right of taxation, and a new rural and municipal police under the direction of the Minister of the Interior.
Detailed explanation-5: -Under pressure from liberal nobles and the intelligentsia, Tsar Alexander II confirmed the Zemstvo Statute on 1 January 1864. Electoral institutions, specifically gubernia and county zemstvo assemblies (decision-making bodies) and zemstvo boards (executive bodies) were introduced in 1865.