1 Industry 1855-1894

Question 1

Mnemonic

Answer 1

Every - emancipation
Damn - Donbas region
Chicken - coal
Is - iron and steel
Ready - railways
For - foreign loans and expertise
Gulags - gold standard rouble 1897

Question 2

____ were reduced to encourage foreign trade

Answer 2

Tariffs/import duties

Question 3

The government gave _______ to encourage foreign investment

Answer 3

Guarantees on returns

Question 4

In ____, ironworks were set up in ____

Answer 4

1872
The Donbas region

Question 5

In the ____s, the ______ supplied __% of Russia’s coal

Answer 5

1860s
The Donbas region
87%

Question 6

Reutern was the minister of finance from…

Answer 6

1862 to 1878

Question 7

There was an annual growth rate of __% during Reuterns term of office

Answer 7

6%

Question 8

Oil extraction began in the ____ in ____

Answer 8

Caspian Sea Port of Baku
1871

Question 9

However, __ of all government revenue went towards ___ during Reutern’s term of office

Answer 9

1/3
Debt repayment

Question 10

During Reutern’s term of office, the Rouble…

Answer 10

Was very unstable

Question 11

The taxation system and Empancipation edict…

Answer 11

Kept the peasantry poor and the domestic market small

Question 12

____ were raised again in the ___s to increase government revenue

Answer 12

Import duties
1880s

Question 13

Under Vyshnegradsky, a _____ of __% was introduced on ____

Answer 13

Prohibitive import tariff
30%
Raw materials

Question 14

Vyshnegradsky was Minister of Finance from

Answer 14

1887 to 1892

Question 15

Vyshnegradsky negotiated _____ in _____

Answer 15

Valuable French loans
1888

Question 16

Vyshnegradsky focused on…

Answer 16

Increasing agricultural exports

Question 17

Foreign loans increased from…

Answer 17

98 to 215 million roubles from 1880 to 1890

(1895 280 million, 1900 900 million)

Question 18

Russia became the world’s…

Answer 18

4th largest industrial economy in 1897

Question 19

By the ____s, ____ of Russian railways was owned by the state

Answer 19

Mid 1890s
60%

Question 20

Increase in railways statistic

Answer 20

From 1855 to 1890, railways increased from 650km to almost 20,000km

Question 21

When was the Russian budget in surplus?

Answer 21

1873

Question 22

Joint-stock companies statistic

Answer 22

By the early 1870s, the number of joint-stock companies increased fivefold

Question 23

Rouble gold standard

Answer 23

1897

Question 24

Witte’s impact on railway production and coal output

Answer 24

During Witte’s term of office, railway production virtually doubled and

Coal output in Southern Russia trebled

Question 25

Steel production increase

Answer 25

9 to 76 million poods