AS History: The Russian Economy (1892-1911)

1. More foreign investment needed
2. Need for larger business class
3. Peasants needed to work in factories
4. Bad Transport network

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• These points are limited to the essentials - there will not be enough time to write about all the successes he had! Especially as the Failures are probably more worthy of note, in my opinion.

1. Gained foreign investment (mainly from France) totalling 144m roubles
2. Increased production of coal and iron
   1. More factories in main cities
3. More sophisticated weaponry
4. Trans-Siberian Railway
5. Working hours reduced to 11.5 a day
   1. Was still exploited as no enforcment

1. Poor living conditions
2. Still behind Germany, France & Britain
   1. More national debt than anyone else
3. Strikes became more common
4. Peasant anger due to taxes on them increased

1. Opposition from the Bolsheviks and Mensheviks
2. The radical Dumas
3. Not enough Agrarian reform

1. Manipulated the Dumas to be less radical
   1. Tsar Nicholas II dissolved first three, only upper classes could vote the third & fourth time.
2. Passed Land Reform Acts
   1. 'Mir's abolished, 25% peasants left Mirs 1906-14
   2. 20% of peasants owned land in 1905, 50% by 1915
   3. Peasants owning land were more loyal to Tsar
3. Encouraged Peasant Land Bank to give more money
4. Agricultural production increased greatly

1. Still poor living conditions
2. Industrial Unrest
   1. Lana Goldfield massacre, 1912
      1. Police killed strikers
   2. Moscow General Strike in 1914
3. Stolypin became reknown for having people hanged, "Stolypin's Neckties"
4. The Dumas were weakened
5. Land Reforms had little impact on cities