Russia enters the Third World (i.e. its economy enters the world capitalist system)

1.  Why was Russia NOT modern and industrial?
      Feudal 
      Agrarian 
      Autocratic 
      the Iron Industry 
      transportation 
      cities 
      serfdom 
      capitalist class small 

2.  Crimean War forces change toward western capitalism and market economy.
      Serfdom abolished 1861 
      Peasants to pay for land 
      communal village ownership; land distributed according to size of family 
      Mir owed cash redemption payments and taxes collectively 
      Landed estates grabbed much of the best land for commercial agriculture 
      hired labor existed, so for-export, extractive agriculture grows 
      railroads 
      urbanization 
      industry (esp oil and steel, textiles) using Western capital and technology 
 
3.  1905 Peasant Revolution: half unable to exist on land; 1898 the Social Revolutionary Party formed 
 end to mir communalism 
 end to redemption payments 
 Crisis in the countryside: famines, high cost of manufactured goods 

4.  Middle Class: Cadets (liberals) middle class wants political role commensurate with its growing economic power; but middle class small and the economy controlled by the French & the British
 
5.  Workers: Social Democratic Party formed 1898; Why was the Russian working class 
 revolutionary? 
     Bolsheviks 
     Mensheviks 
     Workers’ Councils soviets 

.  Landowners: Conservative, monarchist, doing well in the system as it existed