state-sponsored development of heavy industry Flashcards

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Witte launched russia into an age of?

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heavy industry
-believed that iron, coal and steel industries would form the basis for industrial development as they had done in Western European economies

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Witee used the railways as a springboard, how did he see them?

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saw them as agents of civilisation and progress

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what would railways do?

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would link up the vast spaces and the people,farms and factories of the moire
-would carry the products of new industry to market and raw materials to factories and industrial plants

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railways would help open up the new oil fields in?

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the Caucasus, more distant areas could be opened up for the supply of food and grain to cities= encouraging more efficient farming

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5
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what was Witte’s most famous project?

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the trans-siberian railway across russia

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trans-Siberian railways across russia involved?

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25 factories producing 39 million roubles worth of rails
-Other Russian manufacturers producing 1,500 locomotives and 30,000 wagons

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7
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to achieve this, Witte invested millions of roubles of state money directly into?

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the railways and heavy industry

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8
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by 1899, the state bought almost how much of metallurgical production?

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2/3

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9
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state controlled how much of railways by 1899

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70%

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