Chapter 8- Economic development of Russia to 1914

Question 1

What was Russia growth rate power annum from 1894-1914

Answer 1

8%

Question 2

How did coal output change from 1890 to 1900

Answer 2

183 million puds to 671 million puds

Question 3

How did foreign investment change from 1895 to 1914

Answer 3

280 million roubles to 2,000 million roubles

Question 4

What percentage of the governments income came from industrial investments

Answer 4

25%

Question 5

What did economic historian Alexander Gerschenkron dub the late 1890’s

Answer 5

The great spurt

Question 6

How many kilometres of railways did Russia have by 1905

Answer 6

60

Question 7

How big was Russia’s railway network by 1913 in relation to the rest of the world

Answer 7

Second biggest after USA

Question 8

What was Russia the fourth biggest producer of by 1914

Answer 8

Coal, pig iron and steel

Question 9

How much did oil production increase by between 1885 and 1913

Answer 9

Trebled

Question 10

Russia produced the ………. Most oil in the world in 1913

Answer 10

Second

Question 11

How many more times factory workers were there in 1908 compared to 1887

Answer 11

Two

1.3-2.6 million

Question 12

What accounted for 40% of industrial output in Russia in 1910

Answer 12

Textiles

Question 13

What ranking was Russia in terms of industrial power by 1914

Answer 13

Fifth

Question 14

How much did state revenue increase by between 1908 and 1914

Answer 14

2 billion

Question 15

What are examples of countries that has a higher comparative national income increase from 1894-1913

Answer 15

Italy

Austria

Britain

France

Question 16

Which country traded 5 times more than Russia in 1913 (190 million)

Answer 16

Germany (5 times more)

Question 17

How did the average amount of land held by individual peasants change from 1877 to 1905

Answer 17

Fell from 35 to 28

Question 18

How did grain production change from 1900 to 1914

Answer 18

56 million tonnes to 90 million tonnes

Question 19

How did hereditary ownership of homes change from 1905 to 1915

Answer 19

20% to 50%

Question 20

What percentage of the lands was owned by the nobility in 1914

Answer 20

50%

Question 21

What percentage of peasants reached ‘kulak’ status

Answer 21

Less than 1%

Question 22

what produced more coal than Russia in the 1890’s

Answer 22

West Virginia

Question 23

how many illegal strikes were there from 1886-94

Answer 23

33

Question 24

how much more grain were British farmers producing under Nicholas II co spared to Russian peasants

Answer 24

four times more

Question 25

how much of the population did the rural economy include

Answer 25

80-90%

Question 26

what led to less land being held by peasants in 1905

Answer 26

sub division of land to all males in the mir

Question 27

how did the average amount of land change from 1877-1905

Answer 27

fell from 35 to 28 acres

Question 28

what reform did stolypin make in 1903

Answer 28

Mir no longer responsible for taxes of all peasants in the village

Question 29

what reform did stolypin make in September 1906

Answer 29

more state and crown land available- government encourages and subsidises migration to fertile land in Siberia

Question 30

what reform did stolypin make in October 1906

Answer 30

equal rights for peasants in local administration

Question 31

what reform did stolypin make in November 1906

Answer 31

peasants can leave the mir land owned by oldest male not whole family (stopped sub divisions) peasants can remove land from collective mir farming and become individual new peasant land bank created

Question 32

how many peasants migrated to Siberia following stolypins land reform

Answer 32

3.5 million

Question 33

what did Siberia become after stolypins land reform

Answer 33

major producer of cereals and dairy

Question 34

how did the amount of land owned by peasants change due to stolypins land reform

Answer 34

1905- 20% of land owned by peasants \ 1915-50% of land owned by peasants

Question 35

how did grain production change as a result of stolypoins land reforms

Answer 35

1900- 56 million tonnes 1914- 90 million tonnes

Question 36

when did Russia become the leading exporter of cereals

Answer 36

1909

Question 37

what was a problem with peasants land that stolypin failed to reform

Answer 37

still traditional strip land farmed using traditional methods

Question 38

how many applications to have land went through under stolypin

Answer 38

1.3 out of 5 million

Question 39

how much land got moved from communal to private ownership under stolypin

Answer 39

only 10%

Question 40

what percentage of peasants were kulaks

Answer 40

less than 1%

Question 41

how much of the Russian railway was state controlled

Answer 41

66%

Question 42

what did railways connect

Answer 42

the main industrial areas key agricultural; areas to Black Sea ports

Question 43

what stimulated growth in heavy industry

Answer 43

building railways as materials were needed for this

Question 44

how big was Russian railway network under Nicholas

Answer 44

second largest in the world by 1909

Question 45

how did Russian national income change under Nicholas

Answer 45

rose 50% from 1894-1913

Question 46

what was Russian foreign trade valued at under Nicholas II

Answer 46

190 million by 1913