Russia Stats

Question 1

What % of the Russian Empire was ethnically Russian?

Answer 1

55%

Question 2

How many Jews lived under Tsarist Russia?

Answer 2

Around 5 million

Question 3

What was the purpose of Russification?

Answer 3

To enforce Russian language and culture, especially in education and administration

Question 4

How many people were under Okhrana surveillance by 1900?

Answer 4

26000

Question 5

How many newspapers/books were censored 1894–1904?

Answer 5

Over 3,000

Question 6

How many ships did Russia lose at the Battle of Tsushima?

Answer 6

21 ships

Question 7

How many men were lost at the Battle of Tsushima?

Answer 7

Over 5,000

Question 8

How many peasants migrated to Siberia under Stolypin?

Answer 8

2.1 million

Question 9

What % of peasants left the mir by 1914?

Answer 9

Only 10–20%

Question 10

How many executions under Stolypin’s necktie?

Answer 10

Around 3,000

Question 11

How many convictions occurred during Stolypin’s repression?

Answer 11

About 21,000

Question 12

What did Stolypin famously say about Russian reform?

Answer 12

Give me 20 years of peace and you will not recognise Russia

Question 13

How much did prices rise by 1917?

Answer 13

3

Question 14

How much of Petrograd’s food and fuel needs were met by 1916?

Answer 14

Only one-third

Question 15

How many Russian casualties at Battle of Tannenberg?

Answer 15

300000

Question 16

How many soldiers did Russia lose in WWI (dead)?

Answer 16

1.7 million

Question 17

How many were wounded in WWI?

Answer 17

8 million

Question 18

How many Russian POWs in WWI?

Answer 18

2.5 million

Question 19

How many workers were on strike by 25 Feb 1917?

Answer 19

250000

Question 20

How many soldiers mutinied on 27 Feb 1917?

Answer 20

Around 160,000

Question 21

How much did Bolshevik membership grow from Feb to Oct 1917?

Answer 21

From 10,000 to over 250,000

Question 22

When was Soviet Order No. 1 issued?

Answer 22

1 March 1917

Question 23

What % of Russians supported Bolsheviks nationally?

Answer 23

Only about 5%

Question 24

How many soldiers in the Red Army at its peak?

Answer 24

5 million

Question 25

How many former Tsarist officers served in the Red Army?

Answer 25

Over 100,000

Question 26

How many people were executed during the Red Terror?

Answer 26

About 140,000

Question 27

How many people died in the 1921 famine?

Answer 27

Around 5 million

Question 28

How many countries intervened in the Russian Civil War?

Answer 28

13 foreign nations

Question 29

How much did Britain contribute to White forces?

Answer 29

£100 million in supplies

Question 30

What year was the Cheka formed?

Answer 30

December 1917

Question 31

When was the Romanov family executed?

Answer 31

July 1918

Question 32

How long did Japanese forces occupy parts of Siberia?

Answer 32

1918–1922

Question 33

How did the Tsar promote Orthodoxy?

Answer 33

- The number of parish clergy increased by around 60% - The number of students educated in regard to orthodoxy increased around 15 times

Question 34

Restrictions for Jews in Universities within the Pale of Settlement and major cities ?

Answer 34

- Pale of Settlement (10% of students at universities) - 3% in Russia's major cities, Moscow and St Petersburg

Question 35

How many pogroms were there in Russia between 1903-1904?

Answer 35

- 49 pogroms

Question 36

How many Okhrana agents in 1900?

Answer 36

- 2,500 agents

Question 37

How many people did the Okhrana have on record by 1900?

Answer 37

- 55,000

Question 38

What percentage of Russia was peasantry?

Answer 38

- 80%

Question 39

How many times were the police and army called to end the strikes ?

Answer 39

- On almost 800 occasions between 1900-1902.

Question 40

What percentage of rural Russia was out of control by the summer of 1905?

Answer 40

- 15% of Russia out of control

Question 41

How many jews were killed/How many homes destroyed after the Odessa pogroms?

Answer 41

- 400 Jews killed/1600 Jewish homes destroyed

Question 42

How many troops recalled to crush the 1905 Workers' protest

Answer 42

- 100,000 troops

Question 43

How much did Russia's prison population increase between 1905 and 1913?

Answer 43

- Increased from 98,000 (1905) to 250,000 (1913)

Question 44

How many government officials did the SRs kill in 1906?

Answer 44

- 1,126 Government Officials

Question 45

3 statistics on Stolypin's agrarian reforms being a success?

Answer 45

- 1915 (50% of peasants owned land) - 1906-1913 (3.5 million peasants set up homes in Siberia) - 80% of migrants settled

Question 46

How many deaths at Lena Goldfields?

Answer 46

- 172 deaths

Question 47

How many workers on strike by 1914?

Answer 47

1,450,000

Question 48

Stats about the Russian men in the army and the number of reservists?

Answer 48

- 1.4 million soliders and 3 million reservists

Question 49

What was inflation levels by 1917?

Answer 49

- Inflation had reached 200%

Question 50

By January 1917, what % of grain requirements were Petrograd receiving?

Answer 50

- Only 48% of its total grain requirements

Question 51

2 stats about the Munitions Crisis

Answer 51

- Russian arms factories could only produce 13,000 artillery shells per month early in 1915 but demand was 4x higher than what factories could supply. - 2-3 shells per day

Question 52

How many wounded in the Great Retreat

Answer 52

-1 million men

Question 53

How many Russian battalions refused to fight during the June offensive?

Answer 53

- 48 Russian battalions

Question 54

How many Russian soldiers lost their lives in the June Offensive?

Answer 54

- 150,000 soldiers

Question 55

How many soldiers and workers surrounded the Tauride Palace during the July Days?

Answer 55

- 70,000

Question 56

What % of the Constituent Assembly vote did the SRs and Bolsheviks win in 1919?

Answer 56

- SRs (39.5%) - Bolsheviks (22.5%)

Question 57

What did Russia lose through Brest Litovsk?

Answer 57

- 32% of its arable land - 26% of its railway system - 33% of its factories - 75% of its coal and iron ore mines

Question 58

Stats about war communism?

Answer 58

- 1918 (Working day was extended to 11 hours) - 1919 (Work was made compulsory for all able-bodied people between 16 and 50 years of age)

Question 59

How much did the industrial workforce declined in 1917 to 1921?

Answer 59

2.6 million (1917) to 1.2 million (1921)