The Economic + Social Problems Created By The War: Internal Problems Flashcards
What was spending like on the war?
-rose from 1.5m 1914 to 14.5m 1918
How was the rural + Ind workforce affected?
-women + children took on some men’s work
-production slumped when country needed it most to feed + supply armies
-Poland + western Rus overrun by Gr removing important Ind capacity
How did some in countryside do well out of the war?
-conscription helped relive population pressure
-those with horses or surplus grain make money by supplying military
How were rural society’s suffering?
-prices offered by gov low with tools + equipment in short supply
-hard to find essential household goods
What was the result of this?
-some hoarded whatever grain + foodstuffs they produced
-exacerbating already difficult situation
What happened to the railway networks?
-overtaken to transport men + goods to front line
-railway locomotive production halved 1913-1916 + acute fuel shortages
How was food wasted?
-foodstuffs meant find way to towns + cities left to rot beside railway sidings
-huge cargoes of grain sent to front line leaving none for desperate workforce
What was the impact of the recruitment drive?
-swelled town populations as more workers
-armament manufacture improved 1916 - rifle production doubled + heavy artillery production quadrupled
What happened in the urban centres in Moscow + Petrograd?
-unemployment soared as non-military factories forced to close as deprived of vital supplies
-lock outs + strikes financially crippled what little Ind survived
What left thousands on the brink of starvation?
-300% rise in cost of living
-rising deaths ages due to workers unsanitary lodgings + inadequacies of their diets
What did this lead to?
-Jan 1917 30k workers on strike in Moscow + 145k in Petrograd
