Raged Dreadnought

Incorrect. Russia before 1917: 🔸 1st in the world in industrial growth rates 🔸 2nd in oil production 🔸 4th in machine building output 🔸 5th in pig iron and cotton production 🔸 8th in electricity generation 🔸 2nd largest gold reserves in the world The gold ruble was considered one of the most stable currencies globally. 🔸 Massive railway construction, including the Trans-Siberian Railway 🔸 Rapid expansion of the railway network 🔸 Population growth from around 125 million in 1897 to about 175 million by 1914 (50 million) 🔸 Sharp increase in the number of schools. Between 1906 and 1914, the number of primary schools grew by roughly 40–50% depending on the region 🔸 Literacy rates rising quickly. In major cities literacy could already reach 60–70% 🔸 Plans for universal primary education by the 1920s 🔸 Expansion of universities and technical institutes 🔸 Development of zemstvo medicine 🔸 Growth in the number of hospitals and doctors 🔸 Affordable medical care available to part of the peasant population 🔸 Stolypin’s agrarian reforms aimed at creating a rural middle class 🔸 Millions of peasants resettled to Siberia with state subsidies 🔸 Growth of private peasant land ownership