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82%
About what percentage of the Russian Empire’s population were estimated to be peasants?
1.5%
About what percentage of the Russian Empire’s population were estimated to be part of the middle class?
8 months
How long did the Russian Baltic Fleet take to sail from Northern Europe to Port Arthur?
24
How many of the 27 ships of Russia’s Baltic Fleet were sunk by Japan at the Battle of Tsushima? (Russo-Japanese War)
40000
About how many russian men had died in WWI by late 1914?
1 million
Over what amount of russian soldiers were injured by the end of 1914? (World War One)
3 million
Over what amount of russian soldiers were dead or wounded by 1916 because of WWI?
1903
What year did the Bolsheviks vs Mensheviks split?
Did so ideological and organisational differences regarding the nature of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP)
Lenin (Bolshevik leader) wanted a small, disciplined group of hardline revolutionaries
Markov (Bolshevik leader) wanted a broader, democratic, and more inclusive group which was less open to violence and willing to cooperate with liberals
268
How many strikes were there in January-February 1917?
3 million
About how many peasants received aid to settle in Siberia (Stolypin’s reforms)
20000, 1000
Over what amount of Russians were exiled, and over what amount were hanged? (respectively) (Stolypin’s reforms)
16.5 million tonnes
How much coal did Russia produce in 1901 (compared to just 0.3 million tonnes in 1861!)
228 million tonnes
Coal output of Great Britain in 1900 (compared to Russia’s 16.2 million tonnes)
70-80%
The rough percentage of the Russian population that was illiterate (1897)
9.15 million
Total Russian World War One casualties
400%
Increase in prices from 1914-1917
- Record levels of government spending had led to an increase in the printing of money
240000
Amount of workers on strike the day before many soldiers decided to join the uprising
200, 800
Estimated dead, wounded from bloody sunday (22 Jan 1905)