industrialisation devlopment before 1890

Question 1

at the beginning of the 1860s, industry mainly took the form of:

Answer 1

-state-run factories, manufacturing industrial goods for the military - uniforms,arms,gunpowder,etc or using serfs or peasants renting state land

-domestic craft-based industry carried out in homes of peasants-waving,spinning,making articles out of wood or bone

-artels-workshops making all sorts of products in metal, leather, and other materials for local domestic market

Question 2

what were the only privately funded industries that were more advanced and on a larger scale?

Answer 2

textiles and sugar industry

Question 3

cotton industry found in larger factories in and around st Petersburg produced how much of domestic demand?

Answer 3

90%
-sugar industry , based in Ukraine, increasingly mechanised and reduced the reliance on imported sugar

Question 4

Alexander II began the process of industrialisation, under him industry expanded significantly in old + new areas.
much of this was achieved through?

Answer 4

the use of foreign expertise:
-british played an important role in developing large-scale textile factories

Question 5

between 1866 and 1881the number of miles of railway increased from ?

Answer 5

3,000 to 13,270