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foundations of Witte's reform laid by
Bunge and Vyshnegradsky
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What prevented Russian development? (1)
Small business class and lack of entreprenerilesm
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What prevented Russian development? (1)
subsistent peasant farmers made up 80%
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What prevented Russian development? (1)
economy didnt have sufficient funds to invest in industrial development
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How did Russia raise funds?
Massive inward investment from abroad such as Belgium and France
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How did Russia protect domestic industry such as steel?
protective tarrifs and extra-taxes at home
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How big was the Trans-Siberian Railways?
7000km. From St.Petersberg to Vladivostock
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What were the initial impacts?
coal, iron and oil production rose
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where was industrial growth concentrated?
Moscow, Baku and Ukraine
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What happened to factories?
By 1900, over half of industrial workforce employed in factories
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What happened to population?
Grew rapidly. St.Peters doubled to 2 million between 1890-1914
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What did the sucessful economic development allow?
it could exploit vast natural resources in Siberia
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What did the sucessful economic development allow?
it allowed russia to develop its military power
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Negative effects of Witte's spurt
poor living and working conditions
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Negative effects of Witte's spurt
provided the ideal environment for social unrest and support for radicals
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Example of disillusionment
St.Peters, workers at Putilov- in thousands- striked for better conditions in 1905
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Realities of economic development
Russia still lagged behind and extra taxation caused deep resentment
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Populists believed in:
Peasants political basis, wanted form of local democracy, wanted peasant communes
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'The peoples will'
formed from populists, terrorist group, killed Alex II in 1881
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SR's believed in
peasantry, led by Chernov, wanted to broaded appeal to workers, not strong knit, variety of factions
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SR's terrorist wing
between 1901-1905, killed Plehve and Grand Duke Sergei
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'All Russian Union Of Peasants'
became SR stronghold, called for peasant ownership of land and was popular
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SD's believed in:
Marxists, industrial development, split
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Mensheviks:
wanted broad membership, admitting any sympathisers
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Bolsheviks
Lenin, limited membership to dedicated revolutionaries,
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Liberals
educated middle class
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Zemstva
contained elected officials, traced back to Alex II,
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Octoberists believed in:
believed manifesto was a breakthrough as it suggested national parliament
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Kadets:
more radical liberals, saw manifesto as beginning not the end, wanted truly parliamentary gov
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Long terms causes of 1905
overpopulation, famine, jacquries, growth in reformist groups
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Short term causes of 1905
russo-japenese humiliation highlighted incompetence, bloody sunday
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Strikes after bloody sunday
Feb 1905, 400,000 workers striked and by end of 1905 2.7 million.
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Potemkin Mutiny
June 1905, crew killed some officers and bombarded port of Odessa
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Russo-Japense losses
port arthur, manchuria, lost 25 out of 35 warships
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St.Petersberg soviet
creation of an assembly of workers, had 96 factories representation, Mensheviks
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The Fundemental Laws
1906, gave right for the tsar to govern by decree and ignore parliament
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First Duma
lasted 73 days, large number people wanted land reform, tsar dissolved it
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Second Duma
9 months, still contained many reformers, tsar and stolypin hated it
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Third Duma
restricted vote, only wealthy could vote, sympathetic to tsar, passed land reforms
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Fourth Duma
dissolved due to WW1
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