ww1 social/economic issues

Question 1

growth of distraction with russian people:

Answer 1

industry entirely focused on military matters
food grown prioritised to army
gov printing money to war effort(couldn’t receive money from france)
men conscripted
horses req(needed for ag and not cheap)
blockage on sea ports(trade)
military took control of railways(trade and recourses harder)

Question 2

food crisis

Answer 2

ag production fell from 1916(shipped to front line)
transport system not available to transport food to cities from countrys
labour shortage due to conscription
shortage of animals = left draft power
shortage of fertalizers-no imports due to naval blockage
death rate inc in major cities along with disease

Question 3

in Moscow just 700 wagons of grain arriving daily in 1917

Answer 3

2220 in 1914

Question 4

beginning of 1916, 150k truckloads

Answer 4

of goods waiting to be delivered (railway disrutption/space)

Question 5

overall industrial production fell(especially consumer industries )

Answer 5

fuel supplies/raw materials not reaching towns(railway space)
labour shortage in town(conscription)
gov prioritise military industries>some factories closed down=unemploy=disconent
peasnts have less incentive to grow/trade grain helping with war effort
traded 25% grain 1914, 15% 1917

Question 6

1915 600 factories

Answer 6

forced to shut down,
23% blast furnaces shut down in war

Question 7

production drive in 1916

Answer 7

rifle production x 2
heavy altielry x4(matched Germany)

Question 8

cost of living rose sharply for ordinary citizens

Answer 8

gov revenue fell during war(polish saline lost). no vodka sales= reducing indirect tax
no foreign trad due to naval blockage so no income from high tarifs
inflation reached nearly 400%

Question 9

cost of war and prices

Answer 9

1914- 1.6b rouble> 14b
salt x5, meat x3
rent 2>8

Question 10

rising disocontent and revolutionary sentiment

Answer 10

domestic issues were brewing, strike since from 1915>1916
winter of 1916/17 frustrations with starvation/unemployment
9th jan1917(anniversary of Bloody Sunday150k demonstration of ptreograd workers

Question 11

revolution begins feb 1917

Answer 11

mass protest in Petrograd, protestors on street inc significant = abolition of autocracy and new provisional government

Question 12

eventually n.2 lost support of armed forces

Answer 12

forced to abdicate 2nd march, russian monarchy collapses