russian history stats and facts

how many miles of track were there when A2 was crowned

<700

how mnay miles of track were there in 1881

>14,000

when did alexander ii become tsar?

february 1855

how many people were arrested in the 1881 reaction

10,000

when and where did russia get great power status?

1709 in poltava

how long did serfs serve in the army for?

25 years, or 15 on good behaviour

how many peasant uprisings were there in Nicholas I’s reign?

712

how many serfs were there in 1859?

23 million

how many state peasants were there in 1859?

25 million

how much of tax revenue made it to the government before reuteurns tax reforms

1/3rd

in 1878, how many loans and savings associations were there

727

in 1864, how mnay tonnes of grain did russia produce

26 million

when did the main committee for emancipation of the serfs appeal to the nobility to ask for co-operation

january 1858

in 1880, how many tonnes of grain did russia produce

86 million

how muhc did the number of primary sschools grow by between 1856 and 1880

3x

how much did the number of secondary schools increase by in the 1860s

2x

what percentafe od the russian population were nobles under A2

1%

how miuch of the zemstva votes went to the nobles

45%

how much of the zemstva votes went to the peaxsants

40%

in 1860, how much of the governments income was taken up by the army

1/3

how many years of active service did the peasants have to do after A2 (miliutins) reforms

15 years - 6 years active service, 9 years in reserve

how much did average land allotted for work decrease after the emancipation of the serfs

4%

how much did the average land allotted for work decrease after emancipation in black earth regions

30%

how many troops were sent to Crimea for the war?

100,000

when did Alexander make a speech signalling the start of the emancipation process?

30th March 1856

what percentage of money received form redemption payments went into repaying existing debts of nobles in the first 10 years?

50%

what fraction of the land owned in 1861 had to be sold off by 1905? And what percentage of the land retained had to be mortgaged?

1/3rd was sold off, and 15% of retained land had to be mortgaged

how much did the landholdings of nobles fall between 1862 and 1905?

from 87 million to 50 million

how large was the Russian army before military reforms under Alexander?

1 million men

how much did army reserve increase by from 1862-1870?

x2

approximately how many members did peaoples will have

4000

how many casualties did the russian army have by 1917

6 million

how much food and fuel prices increase by in russia between 1914 and 1916, and how much did wages increase by

food and fuel prices quadrupled whilst wages only doubled

by 1916, what output were the russians matching the germans in

shell production

how much of an increase had there been in production of artillery and rifles during ww1?

1000% growth

how much of the food that petrograd required was it recieving by 1916

1/3rd

how much is bolshevik membership said to have increased by during the summer of 1917

from 10,000 in February to 250,000 in October

what percentage of the Moscow municipal vote did the Bolsheviks have in july 1917 vs october

11% in july - 51% in october

in the november 25th constituent assembly elections, what percentage of the vote did the Bolsheviks get?

24%

how much did grain prices increase by from feb to june 1917

they doubled

from feb to july 1917, how many many jobs were lost as a result of factories shutting down?

100,000

how far did the bolsheviks advance in 3 days whilst trotsky tried to keep peace talks going

150 miles

how much of russias agricultural, humans and industrial resources did they lose to the treaty of brest litovsk

50%

how much of russias european land did she lose as a reuslt of brest litovsk

1/3rd

how many laws were passed by the third duma

2571

how much did russia have ot pay germany as a result of brest litovsk

3 million marks

how much of russias population did she lose as a reuskt of brest litovsk

1/6th

j hi ow many people list their lives in the civil war

over 3 million

how many people lost their lives from djeasease in the civil war

over 2 million

how many died rom famine between 1917 and 1923

5 million

how many fled as political exiles between 1917 and 1923

2 million

how much money did the british give to the whites to defeat the reds

£100 million

how many men did the bolsheviks have at their disposal at the itme of the october revolution

50,000

how many red army members were there in 1918

1 million

how many red army members were there at the time of the russo polisj war

5.4 million

in mid 1919, how many were deserting the red army every month

250,000

in 1920, what percentage fo the red army contracted typhus

30%

in 1918-20, how much of petrograds populartion did it lose

3/4

how mucfh did moscows population decrease by during the civil war

50%

how long was trotskys train that went from front to front during the civil war

65,000 miles

how many mensheviks were arrested in 1921 for counter revolutionary actions

5000

how many SRs were condemned with being terrorists in the 1921 showtrials and how many were executed

34 condemned

11 executed

in october 1920, what percentage was the rouble of its 1917 value

1%

in 1921 how much heavy industry output were they producing in comparison to 1917

1/5th

how much of retail trade did NEPmen control

3/4

by 1923, what had cereal (grain) production increased by

23%

in 1913 how many tonnes of grain did russia export

13 million tonnes

in best years of nNEP how much grain did russia export

3 million tonnes

in 1928, what perecentage of farms were sovkozy or kolkozy

3%

how mnay more members did komsomol havbe than the party in the village

4x

after dizzy with success, what percentage of households were collectivised

23%

by 1934, what percentage of acreage was collectivised

90%

what percenytage of households were collectivised in the first 3 months

60%

how many peasants were arrested during collectivisation

390,000

how mmay people does robert conquest assume died in the great famine

14.5 million

how much land were the peasants allowed under the kolkhoz charter

1 acre

how many people rural-urban migrated between 1926 and 1939

c. 20 million

by when did meat production reach up to pre-collectivisation levels

1953

what percentage of vegetables bought by cxonsumers were provided by private plots

52%

how much grain was produced under the tsarist regume in 1913

80 million tonnes

how much grain was produced in 1935

75 million tonnes

in 1931, what oercentage of engineers in the donbas region were arrested

50%

how much did the first FYP try to get coal to increase from and to

35 million tonnes to 75 million tonnes

hwo much did the number of industrial worjrs increase by during the first FYP

2x

what percentafge of total investment int he first FYP was made uo for by heavy industry

80%

how much did production of electricity increase by during the first FYP

x3

hpow much did production of coal and iron icnrease by during the first FYP

x2

what do western economists predict the fulfillment rates for the first FYP is

60-70%

what percetage of their 1928 level were real wages in 1932 (year of crisis)

49%

how many textile woekers in the ivanovo region joined in the strikes in 1932

16,000

by what year was the ussr virtually self sufficient in machine mnaking and metalworking

1937

how much more coal did stakhanov cut in one shift than the aveage worker

16x

how much was the work day lengthened by by the 1940 decree

7 to 8 hours

how muh was the work week lengthened by by the 1940 decree

5 to 6 days

how much compulsory labour was prescribed for absenteeism (being more than 20 minutes late, twice) under the 1940 labour decree

up to 6 months with 75% pay

what was the annual growth rate durong the FYPs

10%

by how much did overall output increase during the FYPs

3x

how many industrial enterprises were there in 1928 and 1938

1928 - 9000

1938 - 64000

how much did the dnieprostroi dam increase electricity production by

5x

in 1935 what percentage of leningrad wprkers were women

44%