How succ was economic polocies for Tsar.

Question 1

banking - Witte

unstable

Answer 1

• placed Russia on gold standard
• foreign countries did invest like France
• protective tariffs on goods
• heavy taxation on salt, alcohol and bread
• this stabilized Russia currency
• foreign countries invest so its good since Russia can buy infrastructure.
• encourages Russians to buy Russian goods
• they got a lot of money from taxation on crucial goods .

Question 2

agriculture - Witte

Answer 2

• much of land was infertile
• used old methods to harvest i.e. ox to plough and sickles
• only made enough to eat not sell
• cant pay off big mortgages in lifetime
• poor harvest every 4 years causing famine.
• Witte heavy taxed peasants
  -doesn’t tax rich
  -exports surplus grain
  -ignores them and doesn’t industrialise
  caused peasants to rise up during 2 bad harvests

Question 3

banking - Stolypin

Answer 3

• sets up peasants land bank allowing them to buy land also created kulaks

-de revolutionised peasants stopping uprising in rev
likely to move away from just making food for family but for workers too.

Question 4

agriculture - Stolypin

Answer 4

• Tried to reduce strip farming
• resettle in Siberia
• unsuccessful as only 16% of land not strip farmed
• weather too bad in Siberia so they moved back
• Stolypin assassinated so reforms couldn’t be carried out and have time to flourish with his guidance.