Russia 1855-1964 economy
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- Economy
- Reasons for economic change
- Industrialisation to create a wealthier Russia, but consistent emphasis on heavy industry
- catch up with the west
- emulate the industrial revolutions that happened in the west in order to increase and maintain Russia's military status (at a time when global powers becoming more prevalent
- Extent of economic change
- TSARS: 1909-1913: industrial output increased by on average 7% per year and GNP by 3.5% per year. Matching the performance of other countries, but not Russia's main competitors- coal production only 10% of GB and GNP per capita only 20% of GB
- COMMUNISTS: more substantial increase in the rate of growth of GNP, before 1940 average annual rate was 4-5%, this extra wealth came from coal, steel, oil and electricity. Growth rates higher than the west but extra wealth not being passed on to pop. Great human cost- 3.4 mill in labour camps
- TSARS:
- INDUSTRY:
- Reuturn reforms (1862-78) encouraged FDI and foreign technological expertise
- Trans- Siberian railway
- The Medele'ev Tariff to raise govt revenue
- Witte's great spurt (1893-1903)
- AGRICULTURE:
- Emancipation of the serfs 1861
- The Peasant Land Bank 1883
- The Stolypin Reforms (1906-11), Wager on the strong and land reforms
- Kulakisation and commercial farming
- INDUSTRY:
- COMMUNISTS:
- INDUSTRY:
- State capitalism- central control of the economy through the Supreme Economic Council (dec 1917(
- War Communism- nationalisation, partial militarisation of labour and grain requsitioning
- The NEP- denationalisation of small scale enterprise and a return to private ownership
- Centralised planning- the 7 Five year plans under Stalin and Khrushchev, aim of economic autarky
- AGRICULTURE:
- Collectiviisation and dekulakisation (1929 onwards)- the Kolkhozy and Sovkhozy and the coming of the motor-tractor stations (MTS- responsible for loaning tractors to peasants, distributing seed, collecting grain and deciding what farmers could keep for their own consumption)
- The Virgin Lands Scheme (1954 onwards)- by 1964 165 million acres had been given over to the production of wheat
- INDUSTRY:
- Reasons for economic change
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