Russia AOS1 Statistics

Question 1

Population of first census of imperial Russia (1897)

Answer 1

126 million people

Question 2

Number of different nationalities in Russia 1897

Answer 2

60

Question 3

Percentage of population that are peasants 1897

Answer 3

82%

Question 4

Percentage of population that are from the ruling class 1897

Answer 4

0.5%

Question 5

Percentage of population that are from the upper class 1897

Answer 5

12%

Question 6

Percentage of population that are from the middle class 1897

Answer 6

1.5%

Question 7

Percentage of population that are working class 1897

Answer 7

4%

Question 8

Number of deaths during the Khodynka Field Tragedy in 1896

Answer 8

1300

Question 9

Number of Russian military deaths during the Battle of Tsushima (May 1905)

Answer 9

10,000

Question 10

Number of Japanese military deaths during the Battle of Tsushima (May 1905)

Answer 10

117

Question 11

Estimated number of people killed on Bloody Sunday

Answer 11

200

Question 12

Estimated number of people injured on Bloody Sunday

Answer 12

800

Question 13

Number of workers on strike by the end of January 1905

Answer 13

400,000

Question 14

Number of hectares required for landowners to vote directly for the first Duma

Answer 14

200

Question 15

Percentage of urban working population excluded from voting for the first Duma

Answer 15

60%

Question 16

Percentage of seats held by the Kadets in the first Duma

Answer 16

37%

Question 17

Number of people executed under Stolypin’s martial law (1906-1913)

Answer 17

3376

Question 18

Number of soldiers in Russia’s army at the start of WW1 (1914)

Answer 18

6.5 million soldiers (the largest in Europe)

Question 19

Number of rifles available for the Russian army in 1914

Answer 19

4.6 million

Question 20

Number of Russian soldiers dead, wounded or captured by mid-1915

Answer 20

4 million

Question 21

Number of Russians (mainly peasants) called up for WW1

Answer 21

15 million

Question 22

Number of Russians under German Occupation during WW1

Answer 22

23 million

Question 23

Number of roubles spent on WW1

Answer 23

1.5 billion

Question 24

Number of Prime Ministers between September 1915 and February 1917

Answer 24

4

Question 25

Number of workers on strike by the 27th February 1917

Answer 25

400,000

Question 26

Number of soldiers who joined protestors on the 27th February 1917

Answer 26

70,000

Question 27

Number of soldiers who fleed during the June Offensive 1917 (Orlando Figes estimate)

Answer 27

400,000

Question 28

Number of Manors Destroyed 1905-1906

Answer 28

Almost 3000 (15% of total)

Question 29

Real worth of wages between 1904 and 1905 fell by…

Answer 29

25%

Question 30

By 1916, Petrograd and Moscow received…

Answer 30

…1/3 of their usual fuel and food supplies.

Question 31

The 1917 rouble bought…

Answer 31

…30% of what it could buy in 1913.