Situation by 1914

Question 1

What happened to the number of independent farms between 1913 and 1914?

Answer 1

Fell from 134,500 to just under 98,000

Question 2

What had happened to the length of Russia’s railways between 1881 and 1914?

Answer 2

1881: 21,230km
1914: 70,160km

Question 3

What was the state of the Trans-Siberian Railway by the start of the First World War? What impact did this have?

Answer 3

Still unfinished. Parts of Russia were still unconnected to Moscow/St Petersburg

Question 4

What had happened to the Russian population from 1897 to 1914?

Answer 4

Increased from 125 million to 166 million

Question 5

What percentage of Russians lived in rural areas by 1914?

Answer 5

80%

Question 6

How many towns were there in Russia by 1914?

Answer 6

1,000

Question 7

How many Russian towns had:

• Piped water?
• A sewage system?

Answer 7

Piped water: 200

Sewage system: 38

Question 8

What killed over 100,000 people in St Petersburg in 1910?

Answer 8

Cholera

Question 9

What sparked the Lena Goldfields incident in 1912?

Answer 9

Miners demanding better pay and conditions

Question 10

What happened when the police turned up at the Lena Goldfields?

Answer 10

They shot and killed several miners

Question 11

How did the Okhrana help defeat the Lena Goldfields miners?

Answer 11

They infiltrated the strike movement to identify the organisers of the strike