Alexander III and modernisation

Question 1

After the municipal government act of 1892 what % of the Moscow and St Petersburg population could vote?

Answer 1

0.7%

Question 2

After Alexander II’s assassination a nationwide police offensive led to how many arrests?

Answer 2

10,000

Question 3

When was the noble land bank set up?

Answer 3

1885

Question 4

How many Muslim Tartars were forced to convert to orthodox Christianity under Pobedonostsev?

Answer 4

100,000

Question 5

How many Jews were there in the Russian empire in the 1880s?

Answer 5

5 million

Question 6

In the 1860s the cotton industry in the St Petersburg area produced what % of domestic demand?

Answer 6

90%

Question 7

Between 1866-1881 the number of miles of railway increased from 3000 to what?

Answer 7

13,270

Question 8

By 1890s what % of all iron and steel was consumed by railways?

Answer 8

60%

Question 9

The trans-Siberian railways involved :

Answer 9

25 factories producing 39 million roubles worth of railways

Other manufacturers producing 1500 locomotives and 30,000 wagons

Question 10

By 1899 the state had bought what fraction of metallurgical production and controlled what % of the railways?

Answer 10

1 almost 2/3
2 70%

Question 11

By 1900 foreigners owned what fraction of capital in Russian joint-stock companies?

Answer 11

1/3

Question 12

When was the gold standard adopted?

Answer 12

1897

Question 13

In the 1890s the growth rate hit:

Answer 13

9%

Question 14

From 1890-1900 coal output _____, cotton cloth production increased by _____ and the production of iron and steel rose from 9 million poods per year to _______?

Answer 14

1 Tripled
2 2/3s
3 76 million

Question 15

By 1900 which city was the fastest growing east of New York?

Answer 15

Moscow

Question 16

After the 1899 international recession, by 1903, only ____ of the 35 blast furnaces were working

Answer 16

23

Question 17

By 1900 what % of the budget was used to pay off foreign loans?

Answer 17

20%, 10x what was spent on education

Question 18

By 1914 Russia was the 4th largest producer worldwide in :
/3

Answer 18

1 Coal
2 Pig iron
3 Steel

Question 19

By 1909-11 domestic investment was how many times greater than foreign?

Answer 19

3 times

Question 20

From 1910-12 Russians started how many joint-stock companies?

Answer 20

774

Question 21

From 1877 to 1905 the amount of land owned by peasants grew from 6 million hectares to what?

Answer 21

21.6 million

Question 22

By 1905 what % of landlord land had been passed to the peasantry?

Answer 22

27%

Question 23

By 1913 peasants owned what % of arable land?

Answer 23

66%

Question 24

Grain production grew by what % annually between 1883 and 1914?

Answer 24

2.1%

Question 25

By 1914 what % of the peasants in European Russia were Stolypin separators?

Answer 25

Roughly 10%

Question 26

Between 1891 and 1913 investment in agricultural machinery rose by what % annually?

Answer 26

9%

Question 27

Between 1863 and 1914 the population of St Petersburg quadrupled to ____?

Answer 27

2.2 million

Question 28

By 1900 the number of urban workers was at what, which was what % of the population?

Answer 28

3 million, 2.5%

Question 29

What % of workers in 1907 sent money back to relatives?

Answer 29

90%

Question 30

What % of male urban workers could read in 1897?

Answer 30

57.8%

Question 31

Around the turn of the century what % of the workforce was women?

Answer 31

25%

Question 32

By 1914 the worker literacy rate was at ____?

Answer 32

64%

Question 33

Between 1878 and 1911 the number of primary schools _____?

Answer 33

Quadrupled

Question 34

Peasant literacy rose from 21% in 1897 to what by 1914?

Answer 34

40%

Question 35

By the turn of the century estimates put the number of migrant workers at roughly ____ ?

Answer 35

9 Million

Question 36

In 1861 nobles owned 80% of land, which had to reduced to what % by 1905?

Answer 36

40%

Question 37

In 1897 how many out of 1400 highest ranking civil servants were noble?

Answer 37

1000

Question 38

In 1880 what fraction of university professors were noble?

Answer 38

1/5

Question 39

In 1882 how many nobles owned businesses and how many were employed in commerce?

Answer 39

1 700
2 2500

Question 40

How many successful entrepreneurs were there in 1914?

Answer 40

2000

Question 41

There were how many qualified agronomists in 1914?

Answer 41

4000

Question 42

The number of teachers ______ between 1906 and 1914?

Answer 42

Doubled

Question 43

In Moscow there were how many middle class voluntary associations by 1912?

Answer 43

600

Question 44

When was Volga Bargehaulers painted?

Answer 44

1873