Topic: Analyze the changes and continuities in labor systems between 1750 and 1914 in RUSSIA.
Beginning Middle End
|1750-1860 |1860-1914 |1900-1914 |
|1762-1796: Catherine II the Great |1855-1881: Alexander II |1894-1917: Nicholas II |
|• Continuation of serfdom from 11th century. |• Abolition …show more content…
|• Enlarge the labor pool for industrialization |• Increase in size of industrial class. |
|• Industrialization with new Western methods and recruiting of a larger working class. |• Strengthen the bonds between the monarchy and the people. |• Creation of factory laws to solve the |
|• Increase in number of factories and forming of new industries. |• Peasants had rights but were still impoverished. |new industrial problems. |
|1796-1801: Paul I |1881-1894: Alexander III |• Tried to move forward from |
|• Repealed some of Catherine II’s harsh policies on serfdom. |• Program of Industrialization |agriculture. |
|• Tried to give the peasantry more rights |• Money and skills provided by foreign investors allowed modernization of |• Tried to relieve the peasants of