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6. What did the extra taxation cause?

  • Anger from the gentry
  • A boost in the economy
  • Peasant resentment and uprisings
  • The class system to equal out

7. What two things did Witte do in 1987?

  • Put Russia on the gold standard and reduce working hours to 11.5
  • Put Russia on the gold standard and reduce working hours to 8.25
  • Nothing
  • Put Russia on the gold standard and cancell the building of the Trans-Siberian railway

8. What did the Trans-Siberian railway allow?

  • The development of Russian influence in the Far East of Asia
  • The tsar to see more of his people
  • Mass migration
  • Russia to invade Korea easily

9. What was Witte's aims?

  • To bring Russia out of poverty
  • To make the economy stable enough to sustain Russia as a great power
  • To ensure that there was no more famines

10. What did Witte place emphasis on?

  • The increase in a business class
  • The production of capital goods (iron, steel etc)
  • Grain surplus
  • The need for a strong Tsar

11. How did Witte intend to fund the industrialisation?

  • Introducing grain targets to boost the economic surplus
  • Using foreign sponsorship
  • Heavily taxing the rich

12. How long was the Trans-Siberian railway?

  • 700km
  • 1,000,000km
  • 7000km
  • 800km

13. What did putting Russia on the gold standard do?

  • Devalued the rouble
  • Crashed the economy
  • Hightened the value of the rouble
  • Changed Russian currency