Industrialisation in Russia 1881 - 1914

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True or False: The foundations for industrialisation had been layed out during Alexander IIs reign by Reutern and Bunge

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Bunge remained in office until 1886 during Alexander III's reign

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In the years 1881 to 1886 Bunge managed to push through legislation of the restriction of child labour and reduced polling tax

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in 1886 who was Bunge replaced by?

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Vyshnegradsky aimed to industrialise Russia with speed

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There was a much needed boost in the economy and industrialisation was a clear answer to this

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There wer certain problems with Industrialisation tick below all the correct and limiting attributes to the Russian industrialisation

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The Emancipation was supposed to have freed up peasants from theor land for factory work but most had remainded tied to the land
Agriculture was insufficient, it relied on communal and traditiona farming and peasants could not afford to impliment improvemnets or new farming technology to increase surplus'
There was no consume or internal market demand as 80% of the popullation in 1881 were peasants with no extra money to spend on consumer goods mostly due to ever increasing redemption payments
Communications were poor as Russia was huge and mostly frozen in 1866 Russia had 3000 miles of railway while Britan had 5 times this amount while only being approx. 1% of Rissias total surface area.
Overseas trade was limited as Russa had very little access to all year ports and most vecae frozen e.g. Archangel and Murmansk
The tax system was insufficient as it was only collected when needed not regularly

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