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8 letters word
22 points in Scrabble
24 points in WWF

Definitions for ZEMSTVOS in dictionary:

NOUN [PLURAL ZEMÂ·STVOS, RUSSIAN HISTORY.]:

one of a system of elected local assemblies established in 1864 by Alexander II to replace the authority of the nobles in administering local affairs after the abolition of serfdom: became the core of the liberal movement from 1905 to 1917.

NOUN:

ZEMSTVO, (Russian) an elected local administrative council in Czarist Russia

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

an elective council in czarist Russia

Words related to ZEMSTVOS

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How to use ZEMSTVOS in a sentence

The fatal logic of fanatical fury led to attacks upon the zemstvos.
It must be remembered that the zemstvos were the only representative public bodies elected by any large part of the people.
Some of the zemstvos were suspended and disbanded for certain periods of time.
V The result of all this was to drive the zemstvos toward the revolutionary movements of the peasants and the city workers.
That the zemstvos were not naturally inclined to radicalism and revolution needs no demonstration.
Landowners were always in the majority and in general the zemstvos reflected the ideas and ideals of the enlightened wealthy and cultivated classes.
The peasant representatives in the zemstvos were generally peasants of the most successful and prosperous type, hating the revolutionists and all their works.
The newspapers and magazines of the zemstvos became more and more critical of the government, more and more outspoken in denunciation of existing conditions.
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.
Taking advantage of the new conditions, the leaders of the zemstvos organized a national convention.

At that time there was a perfect riot of graft, corruption, and treachery, much of which came under the observation of the zemstvos of the border.
The zemstvos were no longer an active part of the revolutionary movement.
In the vanguard of the fight for the Duma were the Constitutional Democrats, led by Miliukov, Prince Lvov, and many prominent leaders of the zemstvos.
More than three thousand institutions were established on the different Russian fronts by the National Union of Zemstvos.
In the reorganization of the Cabinet, Shuvaviev, the War Minister, who had loyally co-operated with the zemstvos and had supported the Duma in November, was dismissed.
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 building up of autonomous democratic local governing bodies, in the shape of a new type of zemstvos, was rapidly progressing.
Instead of being very limited in their powers as the old zemstvos were, the new zemstvos were charged with all the ordinary functions of local government.
Next they dissolved all the democratic Municipal Councils and Zemstvos and proceeded to take away the various liberties won in the revolution against the regime of the Czar.

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