Beginning Of 20th Centuary

Question 1

What was done to promote industrialisation ?

Answer 1

Steel and iron production were increased by 800%

Question 2

What percentage of the population was urban workers

Answer 2

10.7%

Question 3

What percentage of the population was peasants ?

Answer 3

77%

Question 4

What percentage of the population was the nobility?

Answer 4

1%

Question 5

What was the term for the peasants being freed ? When was it ?

Answer 5

Emancipation of the serfs, 1861

Question 6

What did the peasants have to do for their freedom

Answer 6

Pay redemption payments

Question 7

What fraction of the worlds total mass did Russia make up ?

Answer 7

1/6

Question 8

What percentage of Russia were actually Russians ?

Answer 8

50%

Question 9

Apart from Russian how many other nationalities were there in Russia ?

Answer 9

18

Question 10

What was the term for all nationalities to be forced to live as Russians ?

Answer 10

Russification

Question 11

What was the 3 key principles of the tsar ?

Answer 11

Autocracy nationality and orthodoxy

Question 12

What was the name of the Russian secret police ?

Answer 12

The okhrana

Question 13

Who promoted industrialisation in Russia and when ?

Answer 13

Sergei witte, finance minister in 1982-1903