HIST 2200Y Lecture 9: Lecture 9 - Towards the Soviet Revolution (Nov. 20)
26 Feb 2016
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Julian calendar used by russians, 13 days behind the gregorian calendar, changing historical dates. Gregorian calendar internationally used, still used today. Russia started their industrial revolution, railway was greatly expanded. Russia"s empire was mostly expanding to the east heading towards asia. A lot of suffering from the russians, french investors towards the russian revolution, russia needed to raise money through exporting, they gave a high annual rate of gain to trade. An industrial revolution before an agricultural revolution which meant that the agriculture could not sustain the population. Gain was taken from peasants and sold to international markets, russian peasants. Workers in the city were not better off, they lived in appalling conditions and working is horrible conditions, basically uprooted peasants. St. petersburg was the most unhealthy capital in europe, 14,000 dying from were hungry illness (cholera) Russia had no parliament, it was absolute monarchy. The russian church was not a mediator.
