Industrialisation and its discontents

Question 1

The Agrarian Crisis

Answer 1

1890s famine

Question 2

The Search for modernity

Answer 2

Whilst government tried to manage rural crisis it also sought to modernise / industrialise country (the old realisation that it was vital to maintain national power whilst also fear of social consequences)- limited impact of Great Reforms

Question 3

Witte programme

Answer 3

State should invest in industry and communications infrastructure (railways)
Money borrowed from abroad (primarily France)
Fifth biggest industrial power by 1914

Question 4

Industry by 1914

Answer 4

Russia fifth biggest industrial power

Question 5

Social consequences of the Witte programme (2)

Answer 5

Flawed modernisation- high levels of industry in some major cities, but villages and system of agriculture remained very backward
Social tensions- anomie due to bad conditions

Question 6

Rogger

Answer 6

The answer to the agrarian crisis was not just to be found in agriculture, but also industry would lend itself to the modernisation of agriculture

Question 7

The answer to the agrarian crisis was not just to be found in agriculture, but also industry would lend itself to the modernisation of agriculture

Answer 7

Rogger