Russian Socio-Economic Conditions

Question 1

Agriculture

Answer 1

• 75% pop. is peasants
• Grow own food - Get own profit
• Agriculture booming
  •Russia #1 producer of Grain
• Peasants losing land

Question 2

Industry

Answer 2

• Slowly Modernizing
• French Capitol
  • Growing Middle Class
  
  • Political Rights
• Working Class
  • Want better conditions
  • Want to take over factories
• Russia has more strikes than anywhere else in the world

Question 3

Tsar Nicholas II

Answer 3

R. 1894-1917

• Threw a party that turned into fight
  • Free beer
  •1200 people killed
  •20 Thousand Injured

Question 4

Crisis of 1905

Answer 4

1904-1905

• Russo-Japanese War
  • Japan declared war after Port Arthur attack
  • Japanese smashed Russian Navy
• Created Duma 1905 (Russian Parliament)
  • Took all power but debate and talk
  • Not an independent parliament