Advanced Reading on the Stolypin Reforms

What percentage of peasants in European Russia lived on farms separated from the mir by 1914? (Your text gives a different figure, but that concerns Russia as a whole.)

• 10%

• 25%

• 40%

• 64%

• 80%

Answer explanation

Your text says 15%. The discrepancy is probably due to the difficulty of calculating the overall peasant population.

What percentage of St. Petersburg workers took part in the General Strike of 1914?

• 10%

• 25%

• 40%

• 64%

• 80%

What percentage of St. Petersburg workers would take part in the General Strike of 1917?

• 10%

• 25%

• 40%

• 64%

• 80%

What was the adult literacy rate in Russia in 1914?

• 10%

• 25%

• 40%

• 64%

• 80%

What was the literacy rate among the Russian proletariat in 1914?

• 10%

• 25%

• 40%

• 64%

• 80%

Which historian argues that "Stolypin's reform was 'in essence a utopian project', and too narrowly conceived to create a loyal peasantry and modernise peasant farming - there were alternatives which could have done as much if not more to increase peasant farm productivity." Also not all communes were backward and some separators used bad farming methods which exhausted the soil.

• Pallot

• Gatrell

• Gerschenkron

• McKean

• Figes

Which historian argues that "industrial recovery (1908-13) was a by-product of rearmament." - meaning that there was no coherent plan for developing different sectors of the economy to create a balanced economy?

• Pallot

• Gatrell

• Gerschenkron

• McKean

• Figes

Which historian argues that Russia's economy was stabilising and that its growth rates suggest that, if the First World War had not occurred, Russia was well on the way to developing into a successful modern industrial state?

• Pallot

• Gatrell

• Gerschenkron

• McKean

• Figes

Which historian argues that Russia's industrial development was uneven and that there is no reason to assume that the regime would have proceeded on an orderly path and adjusted to the strains that industrialisation was causing society even if World War I had not happened?

• Gerschenkron

• Gatrell

• Nove

• McKean

• Figes

This historian argues that most workers did not work in large factories and were not socialist. The strikes were mainly about working conditions. Only a small nbumber of strikes, mostly by male metal workers, were political before 1917.

• Gerschenkron

• Gatrell

• Nove

• McKean

• Figes