Witte's Economic Policies
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- Witte's Economic Policies
- Aims
- To keep Russia as a great power
- Improve the standard of living for the poor
- Exploit Russia's natural resources
- Rapid industrialisation
- Impacts
- Access to natural resources in Siberia
- People and products could move around the empire easier.
- Peasants had to grow more grain, the government exported this and got more funds.
- Failed to reform agriculture as machinery was too expensive.
- Famine and unrest became common in rural areas.
- Coal oil and gas production trebled.
- Economic growth was 8%.
- Anti-Tsarist groups became more concentrated.
- Methods
- High taxes on foreign products
- Secured loans, larges for France in 1893
- Trans-Siberian railway, ran from St Petersburg to Vladivostock a distance of 4300 mile.
- Brought in foreign exports to oversee building and running of Russia's factories
- Aims
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