Nationalities - economic

Question 1

Holodomor

Answer 1

The Holodomor famine between 1932-33 killed 7 million.

Promoters of Ukrainian were purged in 1929 and again between 1936-39.

Cut bread supply by 37 million tonnes

Question 2

Ukraine industry

Answer 2

• it produced over 30% of the USSR’s steel.
  -20% of the Soviet Union’s coal .

-1920-39, output triples 3x under 5 year plan

Question 3

Poland Tsars

Answer 3

40% of Poland’s exports to Russia
1900 contributes it 40% of Russia GDP

Question 4

Poland Communists

Answer 4

1920s, Poland had a hyperinflation crisis -1,000%

1939 - 40% of Poland’s exports went to the Soviet Union

1945, after WWII, Poland’s GDP was around $22 billion

money not reinvested in Poland. 80% in poverty, 12 hr days stakonvhite

Question 5

Economic far east

Answer 5

3 months travel by coach
Trans Siberian railway not built till 1903
-allows wittes gdp growth of 7.5% through trade

Around 170,000 Koreans were deported for conscipted labour

1900 - Ussr take lease of port Arhtur (and have Vladivostok -have 2 ports now) - warm water /income

Question 6

Economic central Asia

Answer 6

-steepe statue 1891 – European Russians who immigrate get 40 acres of land

-tension as land taken from locals

-tsars Broadley respect Islam as religion provides social order/control

-1905 duma ‘all Russian Muslim league’ - banned 1907 fundamental laws

Virgin land campaign -165 million acres, alienates locals from land. 140-102 million tonnes, dries Aral sea to 10% of its original size,