working population

Question 1

what swelled the urban population in Russia’s major cities?

Answer 1

the arrival of new large factories in addition to the growing numbers of smaller workshops

Question 2

by 1900 how many factory workers were there in Russia

Answer 2

two million factory workers

Question 3

how many factory workers were there in russia by 1913

Answer 3

6 million

Question 4

between 1867 and 1917, the empire’s urban population?

Answer 4

quadrupled from 7 to 28 million = mainly the result of the influx of peasants looking for work in the cities

Question 5

by 1900 the urban workers numbered around 3 million this was only how much of the total population?

Answer 5

2.5%

Question 6

how many had fathers who had been industrial workers?

Answer 6

around 1/3

Question 7

the rest , ex-peasants, retained their family ad village connections and many?

Answer 7

rturned at harvest time to work on the land

Question 8

even in 1907 how may of moscow printers, the aristocracy of the working class, still kept farms in their home villages?
how many sent money back to their relatives?

Answer 8

half
90% sent money back to their relatives= constant interaction between town and country