Industrialisation Russia 1894 AQA Specific
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- Industrialisation
- Senior Minister Sergei Witte introduced policies that led to rapid industrial growth
- Oil and coal production trebled
- Iron production quadrupled
- Some peasants left the land to work in these newly developed industries, living conditions barely improved
- Population grew fast in St Petersburg and Moscow as peasants arrived looking for a new way of life or money before the harvest
- Living conditions in St Petersburg: overcrowding, terrible food, disease, alcoholism
- Working conditions: no regulations on child labour, hours, safety or education. Trade Unions were illegal, low pay, 12-15 hours, unguarded machinery and brutal discipline
- Led to a new class- Capitalists. Added to the size of the middle class
- Landowners, industrialists bankers, traders and businessmen
- Main concern were management of economy and controlling workforce
- Clashes between workers and capitalists played important role in years up to 1917
- Senior Minister Sergei Witte introduced policies that led to rapid industrial growth
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