state-sponsored development of heavy industry Flashcards
Witte launched russia into an age of?
heavy industry
-believed that iron, coal and steel industries would form the basis for industrial development as they had done in Western European economies
Witee used the railways as a springboard, how did he see them?
saw them as agents of civilisation and progress
what would railways do?
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
railways would help open up the new oil fields in?
the Caucasus, more distant areas could be opened up for the supply of food and grain to cities= encouraging more efficient farming
what was Witte’s most famous project?
the trans-siberian railway across russia
trans-Siberian railways across russia involved?
25 factories producing 39 million roubles worth of rails
-Other Russian manufacturers producing 1,500 locomotives and 30,000 wagons
to achieve this, Witte invested millions of roubles of state money directly into?
the railways and heavy industry
by 1899, the state bought almost how much of metallurgical production?
2/3
state controlled how much of railways by 1899
70%