living and working conditions

Cards (9)

  • AII- people moved to cities, 15% of population in towns and cities, no factory inspections so conditions dangerous, peasants farmed 20% less after emancipation
  • AIII- urbanisation, 1891 famine with 17/30 provinences hit, 1940 St Petersburg apartment average of 16 people, no change
  • N- city pop doubled 1914, cheap houses and overcrowding
  • N- beginning of 1914 over 1000 towns with more than 2 million buildings
  • N- Stolypin's reforms helped Kulaks
  • PG- no land redistribution, 8 hr working day, food and fuel shortages due to war
  • Lenin- gov slow to act in 1921 famine with death toll of 5 million
  • Lenin- Bolsheviks issued decree on peace stating dwelling to be taken from private owners and given to proletariat
  • N- working conditions for productivity bad so people moved to countryside