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Growth rate |
8.5% annually |
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State revenue increase |
2 to 4 billion roubles |
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Factory workers increase |
2.5 to 2.9 million |
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Industries where government invests |
Transport, mining, manufacturing, railways |
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Russia was 4th largest producer/extractor of... |
Oil, Coal, Pig Iron, Gold |
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Russia had the world's 2nd largest railway. It was ______km long? |
62,000km |
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There was great growth in new and light industries, these included... |
Chemicals, Rubber, Electrical goods |
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Service industries also improve. These include... |
Civil service, Banking, Stock Markets |
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The number of banks _____ between 1908 and 1914 |
Doubles |
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Social improvements that accompany the economic growth |
Trade Union legalisation from 1905; Welfare legislation passes including the introduction of factory inspectors and health insurance after 1912; added spending on education, (50,000 primary schools, 55% children in full time education, literacy rate increases to 40%) |
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Problems of industrial growth |
Russian economy develops slower than other developing nations; Real wages fall 1910-13 due to inflation; working and living conditions are poor; large and resentful working class forms; businesses form demanding pressure groups; only 30% of output was industrial |
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The revival of militancy |
Lena Goldfields massacre (workers strike due to poor food, conditions, overly long working hours; 500 die after army intervenes); 2000 strikes in 1912, 24,000 in 1913, 1,000,000 in 1914; Bolsheviks encourage disobedience through infiltrating trade unions, selling 40,000 copies of Pravda magazine by 1914. |
