Changes weakening Russia by 1914
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- Changes weakening Russia by 1914
- Economic
- Workers' wages did not rise high enough to keep in line with the 40% rise in inflation
- Conditions in factories were grim and workers lacked effective trade unions and legal production, and so remained at the mercy of employers
- Stolypin's aim for peasants to become permanent owners of their own land was a failure- only 10% of land had been transferred from communal to private ownership by 1914
- Agriculture lacked capital investment and technological advancements Livestock productivity was backwards, e.g. a lack of grazing land caused livestock to graze in fallow land
- Social
- There was a shortage of teachers and doctors to provide for neglected rural areas
- There was a 60% illiteracy among the population as many children received no more than the basic education
- Around 4/5 of the population remained peasnatry
- Political
- A wave of industrial unrest hit Russia in 1912-1914
- Between 1905- 1909 there were thousands of terrorist assassinations and woundings
- Nicholas desired to play a world historical role that helped fuel the militarism in Europe and was pushing it towards war in 1914
- Duma powers were limited- their position had been eroded by Stolypin and the Fundamental Laws had restated the power of tsarist autocracy
- Russia was ruled by a Tsar who failed to assess the social and political consequences of economic modernisation
- The tsarist autocracy was reactionary, oppressive, and inefficient, e.g. it persecuted national minorities, propped up a Church riddled with superstition and allowed administration to be placed in the hands of incompetent leaders (both in the army and civil government), etc.
- Economic
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