Russia statistics

Question 1

Wittes reforms

Answer 1

The great spurt 1893-1903
Trans siberian railway
St.Petersburg gre from 928,000 to 2,217,000.
Moscow grew by 1,000,000
Drafted October Manifesto

“The only man that can help you now is Witte” - Marie Ferdovna (The Tsars mother)

Question 2

Russo Japan war

Answer 2

10,000 soldiers killed or POWS
“The Japanese are infidels the might of holy Russia will crush them” - Tsar Nicholas II

Question 3

Bloody Sunday

Answer 3

150,000 protestors
200 workers killed
“There is no god any longer. There is no tsar” - gaponi

Question 4

General strikes

Answer 4

400,000 workers striking

Question 5

Fundamental stae laws

Answer 5

Ineligible: 25 year old industrial workers
230 landowners votes = 60,000 peasant votes

Question 6

Stolypins reforms

Answer 6

Stabilised Tsarism in russia for 6 years
Executed 3000 revolutionaries 1905-1911
Another 21,000 exiled

Question 7

Lena River Massacre

Answer 7

6000 workers strike (Rancid horseman sale)
250 miners killed

Question 8

Battle of Tannenburg

Answer 8

130,000 casualties, 100,000 POWS

Question 9

Battle of Masuarian Lakes

Answer 9

60,000 casualties

Question 10

WW1

Answer 10

“I have no rifles, no shells, no boots” - Grand Duke Nikolai
4.7 times more men were taken as POWS than died
Took up 4.7 times the total government expenditure of 1913 in 1914

Wages increased 50% compared to price of goods rising 500%

Question 11

Strikes in Petrograd (February revolution)

Answer 11

15,000 prisoners released

Question 12

June offensive

Answer 12

200,000 soldiers lost (Killed, capture or injured)

Question 13

April Thesis

Answer 13

Marked Lenins return
“Peace, Bread, Land”
“All power to the soviets”

Question 14

July days

Answer 14

100,000 plus workers unemployed

Question 15

CHEKA

Answer 15

Saw death of 200,000 Russians 1918-1922

Question 16

Civil war

Answer 16

5 Million men in red army
140,000 executed, 140,000 further in peasant uprisings

Question 17

Kronstadt uprising

Answer 17

15,000 Kronstadt soldiers
2000 rebels executed: 12,000 fled

10,000 red army casualties
5000 Mensheviks arrested
“soviets without bolsheviks”

Question 18

War communism

Answer 18

Requisitioned approximately 6 million tons of grain

Moscow’s population dropped by around 50%, from 2 million in 1917 to 1 million by 1920

10 million deaths from famine disease

Industry production at 15% of pre war rates

Question 19

NEP

Answer 19

Working wages increased 150%
Grain harvest doubled 1921-1925
Railway system used twice as much as pre war

“You are driving into socialism with a peasants’ nag.” + “The New Economic Policy is only a temporary deviation, a tactical retreat.” - Trotsky

Question 20

Scissor crisis

Answer 20

Agricultural prices had dropped to around 89% of their 1913 levels, while industrial prices were approximately 290% of 1913 levels.

Grain production had recovered to around 75%