Social Probkems (impact On Russia At Home)

Question 1

List of casualties mounted to

Answer 1

Around 8 million
- hardly a family not sffected by a son killed or captured

Question 2

Severe food shortages as :

Answer 2

• railway system/ collapsed
• food being sent to the front= priority
  lack of grain coming onto the market= partly beacause food being diverted to the military + peasants not selling it due to conversion of factories to military work= little for peasants to buy

Question 3

Social discontent

Answer 3

Food shortages, inflation, and the strain of the war effort intensified social discontent.
This discontentment fueled revolutionary sentiments and contributed to the Russian Revolution of 1917.

Question 4

How did some people exacerbate an already difficult situation

Answer 4

some people hoarded what grain + foodstuffs they produced

Question 5

Inflation hit people hard how?

Answer 5

roughly price of food + fuel quadrupled between 1914-1916 while wages only doubled meaning people couldn’t pay for basic items

Question 6

What city suffered the most

Answer 6

Petrograd (capital) suffered more than other places = remote from food producing sreas

Question 7

By 1916 Petrograd received ?

Answer 7

Barely 1/3 of food + fuel it required = endless queues for everything

Question 8

Military in 1916 - what happened to rifle production and heavy artillery but what was the problem ?

Answer 8

rifle production doubled
Heavy artillery production quadrupled
- but this was at the expense of

Question 9

Unemployment

Answer 9

Soared led to many strikes

Question 10

In Moscow jan 1917 how many workers went on strike

Answer 10

30,000 workers went on strike

Question 11

In Petrograd jan 1917 how many workers went on strike

Answer 11

145,000