industrial development, 1908-14

Question 1

by 1914, Russia was the world’s what largest producer of coal, pig iron, and steel, and the Baku oilfields were only rivaled by?

Answer 1

-worlds 4th largest
-only rivalled by texas

Question 2

what did russia rank in the world’s industrial power?

Answer 2

world’s fifth-largest industrial power

Question 3

russia had been late to?

Answer 3

industrialise
-meant. significant amount of production carried on large-scale modern works, employing over 1,000 workers

Question 4

latest most-up-to date technology was being used and technological development was taking place inside. so in some respect Russian industry was?

Answer 4

quite advanced

Question 5

igor Sikorksy(young aircraft designer who tsar visted) designed?

Answer 5

the largest aircraft int he world with four engines

Question 6

industrial development was still largely?

Answer 6

state-led, but becoming less so and also less dependent on foreign investment

Question 7

by 1909-11 domestic investment was how many times greater than foreign investment?

Answer 7

domestic investment was 3 times greater than foreign

Question 8

in the three years leading up to 1913, Russian entrepreneurs were investing in ?

Answer 8

new factories, paper mills, mines and power plants

Question 9

how many joint-stock companies did Russia start

Answer 9

774
-three times as many as were started in Germany in the previous 5 years
-urban mc involved

Question 10

there was a growing?

Answer 10

internal market and production of consumer goods rose

Question 11

despite this growing internal market, as a proportion of total industrial production, the share of consumer goods actually?

Answer 11

fell from 52% to 45%

Question 11

who was demand coming from?

Answer 11

demand was coming from peasants as the agricultural sector became more successful and prices for farm produce increased

Question 11

still structural problems in the russian economy

Answer 11

focus on rearmament meant that a coherent plan for developing different sectors of the economy never materialised and so a more balanced economy was not created

Question 12

focus on military requirements meant that industry could not?

Answer 12

meet the demands for agricultural tools and machinery

Question 13

although there were large scale modern works there was also a huge number of?

Answer 13

small-scale craft workshops

Question 14

According to Alec Nove, how much % of industrial workers worked int these small scale workshops

Answer 14

67% of industrial workers worked in these small-scale workshop but they only produced 33% of total industrial output
-meant their prodcutivity=low

Question 15

russian industry had taken great strides forward but it was still?

Answer 15

a work in progress