Social Developments to 1914

Question 1

How many factory workers were in Russia by 1900?

Answer 1

two million

Question 2

How many factory workers were in Russia by 1913?

Answer 2

six million

Question 3

What was the rise in factory workers between 1900 & 1913?

Answer 3

four million

Question 4

How many Urban workers were there by 1917?

Answer 4

28 million.

Question 5

What were the biggest problems with the living conditions of urban workers?

Answer 5

Over crowded, poor sanitation.

Question 6

What percentage of houses had no running water or sewage system in the early 1900s?

Answer 6

40%

Question 7

How many inhabitants died of cholera between 1908-9?

Answer 7

30,000

Question 8

What were the years of the Industrial depression?

Answer 8

1900-8

Question 9

How did the industrial depression affect working conditions in Russia?

Answer 9

Wages failed to keep in place with inflation.

Question 10

What were the working hours reduced to by 1914?

Answer 10

10 hours.

Question 11

What year did strike activity begin to rise again after the 1905 Revolution?

Answer 11

1912

Question 12

What did the workers at the Lena Goldfields mine strike for?

Answer 12

Better wages and conditions.

Question 13

What year was the Lena Golfields mine strike?

Answer 13

1912

Question 14

How many workers were killed at the Lena Goldfields massacre?

Answer 14

270

Question 15

What were the effects of the Lena Goldfields massacre on Russia’s workforce?

Answer 15

sympathy strikes swept the country.

Question 16

What percentage of land remained in Strip Farming form?

Answer 16

90%

Question 17

by 1914, what percentage of Russian society was illiterate?

Answer 17

60%

Question 18

What fraction of noble’s land was transferred to townsmen or peasants between 1861-1905?

Answer 18

1/3

Question 19

What was the aim of the ‘united nobility?’

Answer 19

to regain their land.

Question 20

How was the middle class effected by industrial growth?

Answer 20

it expanded.

Question 21

How did the middle classes assert their political views?

Answer 21

Via the Zemstva.

Question 22

What year was the First All-Russian Congress of Women attended?

Answer 22

1908

Question 23

How many attended the First All-Russian Congress of Women?

Answer 23

1035

Question 24

What was the ‘Silver Age?’

Answer 24

A high point in Russian culture, dominated by poets and stimulated by the relax in censorship after 1905.