Which kind of problems did 'Industrialisation' bring in the Russian society?
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The industrial revolution came to Russia largely in the 1890s, with
ironworks, factories and the associated elements of industrial society.
While the development was neither as advanced nor as swift as in a
country like Britain, Russia’s cities began to expand and large numbers
of peasants moved to the cities to take up new jobs. By the turn of the
nineteenth to twentieth centuries millions were in these tightly packed
and expanding urban areas, experiencing problems like poor and cramped
housing, bad wages, and a lack of rights in their jobs. The government
was afraid of the developing urban class, but more afraid of driving
foreign investment away by supporting better wages, and there was a
consequent lack of reforming legislation.
These workers swiftly
began to grow politicised and chaffed against government restrictions on
their protests, forming a fertile ground for the socialist
revolutionaries who moved between cities and exile in Siberia. In order
to try and counter the spread of anti-Tsarist ideology, the government
formed legal, but neutered, trade unions to take the place of the banned
but powerful equivalents.
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