Nationalities - economic

Question 1

Holodomor

Answer 1

The Holodomor famine between 1932-33 killed 6-8million.

Promoters of Ukrainian were purged in 1929 and again between 1936-39.

Cut bread supply by 7 million tonnes

Question 2

Ukraine industry

Answer 2

• it produced over 30% of the USSR’s steel.
  -20% of the Soviet Union’s coal .

-1920-39, output triples 3x under 5 year plan

Question 3

Poland Tsars

Answer 3

40% of Poland’s exports to Russia
1900 contributes it 40% of Russia GDP

Question 4

Poland Communists

Answer 4

1920s, Poland had a hyperinflation crisis -1,000%

1939 - 40% of Poland’s exports went to the Soviet Union

1945, after WWII, Poland’s GDP was around $22 billion

money not reinvested in Poland. 80% in poverty, 12 hr days stakonvhite

Question 5

Economic far east

Answer 5

3 months travel by coach
Trans Siberian railway not built till 1903
-allows wittes gdp growth of 7.5% through trade

1900 - Ussr take lease of port Arhtur (and have Vladivostok -have 2 ports now) - warm water /income

Question 6

Economic central Asia

Answer 6

-steepe statue 1891 – European Russians who immigrate get 40 acres of land

-tension as land taken from locals

-tsars Broadley respect Islam as religion provides social order/control

-1905 duma ‘all Russian Muslim league’ - banned 1907 fundamental laws

Virgin land campaign -165 million acres, alienates locals from land. 140-102 million tonnes, dries Aral sea to 10% of its original size,

Question 7

Baltics tsars

Answer 7

Population Riga and keiv double 1897-1914
population doubling from 250,000 to 500,000
Follows population rise - Latvians rising by over 375,000

Question 8

Baltic economic

Answer 8

Estonia: Oil production 8 to10 million tons per year

Latvia: About 55% of the population was urbanized

85% of agricultural land was collectivized

Up to 1.5million in famine

Question 9

Estonia

Answer 9

by 1945 mined 65% of ussrs oil

Question 10

Latvia electornics

Answer 10

Latvia manufactured 47% of all Soviet automatic telephone exchange

Question 11

Rigas port (alex 111)

Answer 11

imports increased 6x during this period. In 1881–1885, the total value of imports was approximately 27.4 million roubles,

Question 12

Ukraines grain production Tsars

Answer 12

By 1900 - 20 million tonnes of grain annually.

It accounted for about 25% of the Russian Empire’s grain exports

Question 13

Grain Communists ukraine

Answer 13

By 1930 - prodcued 18 million tonnes
State seizes over 7 million tonnes =holodomour