Russian Industrial Revolution Research Paper

Russia’s industrial revolution was later than most because the agricultural techniques used in the mid nineteenth century had not changed since the medieval period. Farmers still left a third of their land lie uncultivated so that it would recharge its supply of nitrogen. Without a strong agricultural footing industrialization was impossible. In the latter half of the nineteenth century, the modern agricultural techniques came into common practice. Legumes were planted on land that once would have laid uncultivated as it replenished nitrogen more quickly. Legumes also created more food for cattle; thus more cattle could be kept. More cattle meant more meat, cheese, milk, butter, and natural fertilizer for more plentiful and substantial crops. The industries of coal, oil, iron, and textiles began to resonate once French and German financiers began to invest.Sergei Witte became Minister of Finance in 1897. The same year saw …show more content…
The arranged endpoint in the Trans-Siberian railroad was Vladivostok. However, by going through Manchuria as planned in the Russian-Chinese Friendship treaty of 1895, Russia gained Darien and Port Arthur – two warm water ports( Kort pg.175). This would have enlarged industrial productivity and overall economic health. However, the Russian control of Manchuria led to the Russo-Japanese war in 1904, just before the railroad was completed. The absence of resources strained the economy. Industry was forced to put out wartime effort without workers. The failure that the Russo-Japanese war turned into exhibited itself in civil uprisings, industrial workers overworked and underpaid were dying of hunger in the cities because peasants farming in the country had no way to bring crops from the rural countryside to the urban cities. Fed up workers began to strike. As a result, Moscow was crippled by strikes in