Economic and Social State Of Russia Flashcards
How did the government try to pay for the war?
•They increased taxes and raised huge loans at home and abroad
Given the damage done to industrial and grain exports by the war what was produced?
•Inflation
•By 1917, prices rose much more steeply than wages
What did the millions conscripted into the Russian armies leave a shortage of?
•Men to work in the country side
As a result of less farmers what happened?
•Supplies of food to the towns fell due to a shortage of workers
•Peasants began to hoard food instead of selling it
Why did Russian trade come to a virtual standstill?
•Poland and other parts of western Russia were overrun by the Germans, removing important industrial capacity
•Naval blockades of the Baltic and Black Sea ports
Why did the railway system virtually collapse under the strain of the war?
•There were severe fuel shortages because railways were taken over to transport men and goods to the front
•trains carrying food were left to rot due to lack of fuel
•I’m turn large cargoes of grain are sent to the front line at the expense of desperate townsfolk
•The discontent caused by long queues to buy bread in Petrograd was an important factor in the 1905 revolution
Why and where did unemployment begin to rise?
•Unemployment rose in many urban areas particularly in Petrograd and Moscow
•As non military factories, deprived of vital supplies, were forced to close people found them selves in unemployment
What put people on the brink of starvation?
• 300% rise in the cost-of-living rise and death rate because of the workers is insanitary housing and adequacies of their diets left thousands living on the brink of starvation
What did the culmination of economic and social circumstances cause workers to do in January 1917?
• in January 19, 17 30,000 workers went on strike in Moscow
•and 145,000 in Petrograd
