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
