Social - Key Facts Flashcards
Urban population increase
Quadrupled - 7 to 28 million
Number of people living in St Petersburg that were peasants by birth in 1914
3 out of 4
Fraction of the workforce women comprised
1/3
Average industrial wage increase
245 to 364 roubles per month
Inflation
Before World War I
40%
Number of stopages in 1914
3574
Percentage of houses without running water or sewage systems in 1900
40%
Number of people in the cities that died of Cholera from 1908-09
30,000
Percentage rise in primary school provisions
85%
Percentage of children in the cities in full time education by 1914
55%
Number of workers killed in the Lena Goldfield Masscare
270
Percentage of land that was still strip farmed
90%
Number of people that migrated to Siberia
3.5 million
Out of 97 million
Percentage of land held by communes fell from … to …
73% to 60%
Literacy rate in 1914 in the countryside
60%
Fraction of Nobles’ land transferred
1/3
Number of graduate teachers
20,000+
Government spending on education increased from … to …
5 million to 86 million roubles
Percentage of children recieving primary school education in 1911
44%
Fraction of children recieving primary school education that were girls
1/3
Number of university students by 1914
69,000
Number of university students from the peasantry
30,000
Number of weekly newspapers
1,767
Number of delegates who attended the first All-Russian Congress of Women in 1908
1,035
Number of workers that went on strike in Moscow in January 1917
30,000
Number of workers that went on strike in Petrograd in January 1917
145,000
