Russia AOS1 Statistics Flashcards
How many levels of Bureaucracy are there in the Tsarist system?
14
What is the police to peasant ratio under the Tsarist system?
1:3850
What is the annual expenditure on the army?
45%
How many different ethnic groups are there in Russia?
170
What was the population increase between 1815 and 1914?
40-165 mil
What was the nobility to land ratio?
1%:25%
What % of the population are peasants?
80%
What % of land wasn’t used after emancipation?
25%
How far behind was Russia’s industrialisation in the 1870s?
A century
What was the % of Witte’s tax increase?
Increase by 15% compared to the previous 5%
What % did investment increase as a result of the Great Spurt?
8700%
How much did the railway track increase and what was % increase of the total mileage after the Great Spurt?
Track tripled & mileage increased by 46%
What was increase in the number of tech schools after the Great Spurt?
1894 7 schools - 1904 100 schools
What was % increase of the literary rate after the Great Spurt?
1890 20% - 1814 38%
What % did heavy industry increase by after the Great Spurt?
616%
What % did the GDP increase by between 1898-1913?
96.8%
What % did coal increase between 1880-1916?
956%
What % did pig iron increase between 1880-1916?
785%
What % did oil increase between 1880-1916?
1840%
How many military suppressions of strikers were there after the Great Spurt?
191,893 - 5,221,902
What was the % of inflation and wage increase between 1908-1914?
Inflation = 40% increase
Average wage = 7% increase
What was the % of population increase in St. Petersburg and Moscow after the Great Spurt?
St. P had an increase of 76%
Moscow had an increase of 50%
How many businesses closed during the recession between 1900-1906?
19,022,000
How long was the lease on Liadong Peninsula?
25 years
How long did negotiations between Russia and Japan last?
2 years
What year did Japan sign the Anglo-Japanese Alliance with Britain?
1902
When did Japan launch an attack on Russia?
Negotiations ended in 1904 and a surprise attack on Port Arthur commenced on the 8th of February 1904
When was the Treaty of Portsmouth negotiated?
23rd August 1905
What & did bread prices increase and wage decrease after the Russo-Japanese war?
Bread prices increased by 35%
Wages decreased by 25%
What day was Bloody Sunday?
Sunday 9th January 1905
How many protestors marched during Bloody Sunday?
150,000
How many deaths did reports say vs how many were actually killed?
Reports stated that 4600 were killed or wounded
Truth is closer to 200 killed and 800 wounded
What day was the October Manifesto proclaimed?
17th October 1905
When was the All Zemstvo Organisation created?
1896 but it was immediately banned
What year was the removal of Zemstvo members?
1900
When was the “Slaughter of the students”?
March 1901
How many protestors were involved in the “Slaughter of the students”?
3000
How many students were killed, injured or imprisoned during the “Slaughter of the students”?
13 killed, hundreds injured and 1500 imprisoned
How many people were trampled at Tsar Nicholas’ coronation?
1,389/100,000
When was the Assembly of Russian Factory Workers formed?
1904
How many members were a part of the Assembly of Russian factory workers?
6,000
When was the strike in the Assembly of Russian Factory Workers initiated and how many participated?
Dec 1904
100s went on strike which progressed t 120,000 by January 1905
When and how many workers in St. Petersburg went on strike after Bloody Sunday?
End of January 1905
4000 workers
When was the St. Petersburg Soviet of Worker’s Deputies founded after Bloody Sunday?
13th October 1905
When was the nationwide general strike called after Bloody Sunday and how many participated?
14th October 1905
1.5 million strikers
When was Nossar (Chairman of the Soviet) arrested during the general strike?
26th November 1905
When was the St. P Soviet HQ swarmed during the general strike?
3rd December 1905
Trotsky was arrested
How many deputies were arrested in the police swarm during the general strike?
260 and Trotsky
When did the Moscow Soviet call for an armed insurrection during the general strike?
7th December 1905
How many were killed in the armed during the general strike?
1000s
When did the government troops restore order in Moscow during the general strike?
18th December 1905
When was the general strike officially called off?
19th December 1905
What was the period of time of violence and how many were executed and deported?
October 1905 - April 1906
15,000 executed
45,000 deported
When were the “Years of the Red Cockerel”?
1903-1904
When was the peasant union formed after Bloody Sunday?
October 1905
What period of time did the National Zemstvo Congress holding politcal meetings disguised as Banquets?
November 6-9 1904
When did the Moscow City Duma pass the resolution demanding an elected national legislature?
November 30th 1904
When did Tsar Nicholas issue a manifesto promising more authority for the Zemstvo?
December 12 1904
When was the Union of Unions created after Bloody Sunday?
May 1905
When was the Constitutional Democratic Party formed after Bloody Sunday?
October 1905
When was the mutiny on the Battleship Potemkin?
14th June 1905
How many officers did the soldiers on board the Potemkin kill in retribution?
7/18
How many mutinies occurred after Bloody Sunday?
200 mutinies between October - December 1905
When were military reforms introduced after Bloody Sunday?
6th December 1905
When did the Populist movement become the Socialist Revolutionaries Party?
1901
When did the anarchists dominate in the Socialist Revolutionaries party and how many assassinations did they commit?
1901-1905 domination
200 assassinations
When were the Social Democrats founded?
1898
When did Lenin join the Social Democrats and publish his book “What is to be done”?
Lenin joined in 1900
Lenin published his book in 1902
When did the Social Democrats split into the Mensheviks and the Bolsheviks?
1903
When were the Bolsheviks and Mensheviks two distinct parties?
1912
When was the membership of the Mensheviks greater than the Bolsheviks?
pre-1917
When were the Fundamental Laws implemented?
23rd of April 1906
How old did men have to be to vote in the Duma?
_< 25
What was the criteria for landowners or business owners to vote?
200 hectares of land or _< 50 workers
What percentage of workers were excluded from voting?
60%
What date did Witte resign?
22nd April 1906
When did the First Duma last until?
27th April - July 1906
What % of peasants didn’t have a political party in the First Duma?
38%
What % of Kadets were in the First Duma?
37%
What % of Trudoviks were in the First Duma?
20%
How many seats did the Kadets have in the First Duma?
184
How many seats did the Trudoviks have in the First Duma?
124
How many times did the First Duma criticize the government?
391 times
How long did it take for the First Duma to be dissolved?
73 days
When did Nicholas promise to open the Second Duma?
February 1907
When did the Second Duma last until?
February - June 1907
How many bills were proposed in the Second Duma?
287
How many bills were discussed in the Second Duma?
20
How many bills were passed in the Second Duma?
3
When was the Second Duma dissolved?
June 1907
How many seats did the Trudoviks have in the Second Duma?
104
How many seats did the Kadets have in the Second Duma?
98
How many seats did the Social Democrats have in the Second Duma?
65
How many seats did the Social Revolutionaries have in the Second Duma?
37
when did the Third Duma last until?
November 1907 - June 1912
How many men could vote?
1/6
What % of the population could vote for how many deputies?
1% of population for 300/441 deputies
How many seats did the Octobrists have in the Third Duma?
154
How many bills did the Third Duma pass?
2571 bills
When did the Fourth Duma last until?
November 1912 - August 1914
When was the Lena Goldfield Massacre?
12th of April 1912
How many miners went on strike at the Lena Goldfield?
6000
How many miners were shot and killed at the Lena Goldfield Massacre?
500 shot & 250 killed
Over the 2 years after the Lena Goldfield Massacre, how many workers staged hoe many strikes?
3 million workers staged 9000 strikes
Between 1911 and 1912, how many strikes with political demands were there?
1911: 24 -> 1914: 2400
When was the general strike after the Lena Goldfield Massacre?
July 1914
When was Stolypin assassinated?
September 1911
When was Martial Law declared when Stolypin became Prime Minister?
August 1906
Between 1906-1913 how many ‘terrorists’ were executed?
3376
How long did Stolypin estimate his land reforms would take to work?
20 years
When was the Agrarian Reform Act passed?
9th of November 1906
How many peasant families left the mir’s to farm independently in 1913?
2 mil
How many peasants accepted government offers of land and aid if they relocated to Siberia?
3 million
How many acres still remained to the nobility?
140 million acres
What % peasants stayed in the mir?
50%
Between what years did primary schools double during Stolypin’s reforms?
1906-1913
What % were yields compared to Western Europe during Stolypin’s Reforms?
50%
What % of peasants could benefit from Stolypin’s reforms due to restrictions?
10%
By how many strikes decreased during 1914?
January-July = 3493 -> August-December = 41
What % of conscripts willingly reported for duty in 1914?
95%
When did the Great Military Program start and when was it due to finish?
started in 1912 and due to finish in 1917 and cut short by war in 1914
How many men were in the army and how many of them had rifles in 1914?
6.5 million men and 4.6 million rifles
How many rifles had to be produced and how many were actually being produced in 1914?
Needed 100,000/month but only 42,000/month were being produced
In 1914, how many rounds of artillery used per day?
3 rounds
How short of the recommended cartridges were they in 1914?
A billion
When was the Battle of Lemberg?
5th-21st August 1914
How many Austrian men did in the battle of Lemberg?
400,000 men = 1/3 of their army
How many Russian men died at the battle of Lemberg?
225,000
When was the Battle of Tannenberg?
13th-17th August 1914
How many Russian men died at the Battle of Tannenberg out of how many?
70,000/100,000 Russian casualties
How many pieces of heavy artillery were captured at the Battle of Tannenberg by the Germans?
350
How many German casualities were there at the Battle of Tannenberg?
15,000
When was the Battle of Masurian Lakes?
27th-1st September 1914
How many Russians died and were captured at the Battle of Masurian Lakes?
60,000 Russian deaths and 40,000 captured
How many men did the German’s lose at the Battle of Masurian Lakes?
10,000
By 1915, how many Russian troops had been killed?
1 million
When was the Great Retreat?
July-September 1915
By mid-1915, how many Russian men were dead, wounded or captured?
4 million
How many weeks of training did the peasants receive during the war?
6 weeks
How many Russians were living under German occupation by 1915?
23 million
In 1916, How much food and fuel were Moscow and Petrograd receiving?
1/3 of what they needed
How many carriages did pre-war Petrograd need and how many were they reciving during the war?
Pre-war = 1000/month -> only 300 during the war
How many bakeries and butches closed in Petrograd during the war?
1/3 of bakeries and 2/3 of butches
What did the calorie intake for an unskilled worker decrease by in 1916?
1/4
What % did the ban on production and sale of vodka decrease tax revenue by?
28%
What was the cost of war between 1914-1917?
1.5 billion rouble
What % did the rouble decrease by in 1917 compared to the 1913 value?
30%
What % did real wage decrease by during the war?
65%
When was the War Industries Committee founded?
25th of July 1915
When was the Duma recalled during the war?
19th July 1915
When was the Progressive Bloc formed?
August 1915
When was the Duma suspended during the war?
3rd September 1915
When did Nicholas start his duties as Commander-in-Chief?
23rd August 1915
Between what period of time was the “ministerial leapfrog” known as?
September 1915-February 1917
How many times did the PMs, Ministers of Education and Justice change during the war?
4
How many times were the Ministers for Transport, Foreign Affairs and War Ministers replaced?
3
When was the first wave of strikes before the during the war?
August-December 1915
When was the second wave of strikes during the war?
January-June 1916
When was the 3rd wave of strikes during the war?
July 1916 - January 1917
When was Bloody Sunday commemorated during the war and how many people turned out?
January 9th 1917
150,000
When did the Putilov Steel Factory go on strike and how many turned out?
18th Feb 1917
40,000
When did the Putilov strike escalate?
22nd Feb 1917
When did women join the Putilov strike and how many turned out total?
23rd Feb
90,000
When did the Putilov strike turn political and how many turned out?
24th Feb 1917
200,000
When were the Cossacks ordered to suppress the escalated Putilov strike?
25th Feb 1917
When did clashes break out between soldiers and workers, how many protestors were there and many casualties were there?
26th Feb 1917
300,000 protestors
200 casualties
When did a general strike occur in Petrograd during the war, how many workers participated and how many soldiers mutinied?
27th Feb 1917
400,000 Protestors
70,000 soldiers joined protestors
When did Nicholas begin his journey back to Petrograd during the war?
28th Feb 1917
When did the Provisional Committee take power as the Provisional Government?
1st March 1917
When did Nicholas abdicate?
2nd March 1917
When did the Romanov Dynasty end?
3rd March 1917
When was the Provisional Committee officially announced as the Provisional Government?
2nd March 1917
When was Soviet Order No. 1 passed?
1st March 1917
When did the Petrograd Soviet outline their War Aims after the February Revolution?
14th March 1917
When did the PG declare their War Aims after the February Revolution?
27th March 1917
When did mass protests break out after Miliukov’s note was leaked and how many turned out?
20th April 1917
25,000
When was the First Coalition Government formed?
5th May 1917
When did Lenin return to Petrograd after the February Revolution?
3rd April 1917
When did Lenin deliver his April Theses?
4th April 1917
When was the June Offensive announced?
14th May 1917
When was Brusilov made C-in-C?
23rd May 1917
When did the June Offensive start?
18th June 1917
How many Km did the Russians advance in the June Offensive?
30km
What were the Russian losses in the initial June Offensive?
40,000
When did the Germans launch a counterattack on the June Offensive?
6th July 1917
How many men retreated after the German counterattack on the June Offensive?
400,000 men
How many km did the Germans advance in their counterattack of the June Offensive?
230km
When did the Kadets resign from the First Government Coalition?
2nd July 1917
When were the demonstrations during the July Crisis?
3rd-4th July
How many people died on the 3rd of July during the July Crisis
400 deaths
How many radicalised sailors attended the demonstrations during the July Crisis?
2500
How many soldiers, sailors and workers gathered outside Tauride Palace Square during the July Crisis?
50,000
How many Bolsheviks are arrested during the July Crisis?
800
When did Lvov resign as PM?
8th July
When was Brusilov replaced by Kornilov?
18th July
When was the Second Coalition Government formed?
25th July
When was the Moscow State Conference?
12-15th August
How many delegates attended the Moscow State Conference?
2500
When did Kornilov order the Cossacks closer to Petrograd?
19th August
When did Kerensky telegram Kornilov’s dismissal?
27th August
When did Kerensky appeal to the Soviet for help during the Kornilov Affair?
28th August
When was Kornilov arrested?
30th August
By how much had wages decreased between Feb-Oct 1917?
1/2
Compared to the Summer of 1916, the potato price increase by what % in 1917?
663%
Compared to the Summer of 1916, the milk price increase by what % in 1917?
90%
Compared to the Summer of 1916, the meat price increase by what % in 1917
186%
What was the Bolshevik membership in Feb 1917?
24000
What was the Bolshevik membership in April 1917?
100,000
What was the Bolshevik membership in October 1917 total, in Petrograd and the Reg Guards?
340,000 total, 60,000 in Petrograd & 100,000 Red Guards
When did Trotsky replace Chkheidze as Chairman in the Soviet?
25th Sept
When was Preparliament opened?
7th October
When was the Bolshevik Central Committee held?
10th October
When did Kamenev & Zinoviev publically announce Lenin’s plans in October?
18th October
When was Milrevkom formed?
16th October
When did Kerensky give the order to act against the Bolsheviks in October?
23rd October
When did the Red Guard and Milrevkom take control of strategic buildings?
24th October
When did the Bolsheviks take control of communications and transport?
25th October
When the Bolsheviks attacked the Winter Palace who ended up being the defenders?
140 volunteers of the Womans death battalion
40 disabled soldiers
a bicycle unit
a handfull of trainee officers
a small detachment of Crossacks
When was the Council of People’s Commisars (Sovnarkom) formed?
27th October
Who was ellected in the Soviet central Executive Committee?
60 Bols
6 Mens-Int
29 Left SR’s
When did Lenin claim Sovnarkom would only rule to?
early 1918 when the Constituent Assembly convened
How many supporters did the october revolution have?
According to Trotsky + how many acually attacked the Winter Palace?
Trotsky said they had 30,000-40,000 supporters
only 10,000-15,000 attacked the Winter Palace
(5% workers in Petrograd)
