Alexander II Flashcards
Industry - New Work Discipline
Factory owners introduced strict rules and regulations that were required for employees to work safely and efficiently with machines. This was especially important for recruits from the countryside who were used to working according to ‘nature’s clock’. though the hours weren’t set
Industry - Break Bulk
Breaking bulk is moving low value high density goods quickly and cheaply enough for industry and to make it profitable. Done by railways to collect coal and ore for rapid industrialision
Industry - What did Micheal Reutern do?
He was minister of Finance and kickstarted industrialisation in Russia by getting money for railways by tax breaks encouraging foreign investment and by granting monopolies and giving government bonds ensured expertise in building railways as well as employing foreign experts like Ludwig Loop and the Nobel brothers
Industry - What’s the peasents land bank?
A bank owned by government that gave out low interest rate loans to peasents so they could buy land for railways and gave an incentive to produce goods more
Agriculture - What are Land Captains
Land captains were representatives of the administrative and judicial authority in Russian villages from 1889 to 1917 and first employed to keep the serfs in order after emancipations
Industry - What good did putting Russia on the gold standard do?
It made the rouble more trustworthy and easier for foreign captial to be converted
