Social - Key Facts

Question 1

Urban population increase

Answer 1

Quadrupled - 7 to 28 million

Question 2

Number of people living in St Petersburg that were peasants by birth in 1914

Answer 2

3 out of 4

Question 3

Fraction of the workforce women comprised

Answer 3

1/3

Question 4

Average industrial wage increase

Answer 4

245 to 364 roubles per month

Question 5

Inflation

Before World War I

Answer 5

40%

Question 6

Number of stopages in 1914

Answer 6

3574

Question 7

Percentage of houses without running water or sewage systems in 1900

Answer 7

40%

Question 8

Number of people in the cities that died of Cholera from 1908-09

Answer 8

30,000

Question 9

Percentage rise in primary school provisions

Answer 9

85%

Question 10

Percentage of children in the cities in full time education by 1914

Answer 10

55%

Question 11

Number of workers killed in the Lena Goldfield Masscare

Answer 11

270

Question 12

Percentage of land that was still strip farmed

Answer 12

90%

Question 13

Number of people that migrated to Siberia

Answer 13

3.5 million

Out of 97 million

Question 14

Percentage of land held by communes fell from … to …

Answer 14

73% to 60%

Question 15

Literacy rate in 1914 in the countryside

Answer 15

60%

Question 16

Fraction of Nobles’ land transferred

Answer 16

1/3

Question 17

Number of graduate teachers

Answer 17

20,000+

Question 18

Government spending on education increased from … to …

Answer 18

5 million to 86 million roubles

Question 19

Percentage of children recieving primary school education in 1911

Answer 19

44%

Question 20

Fraction of children recieving primary school education that were girls

Answer 20

1/3

Question 21

Number of university students by 1914

Answer 21

69,000

Question 22

Number of university students from the peasantry

Answer 22

30,000

Question 23

Number of weekly newspapers

Answer 23

1,767

Question 24

Number of delegates who attended the first All-Russian Congress of Women in 1908

Answer 24

1,035

Question 25

Number of workers that went on strike in Moscow in January 1917

Answer 25

30,000

Question 26

Number of workers that went on strike in Petrograd in January 1917

Answer 26

145,000