title: Achievements and failures of the russian economy during the First world war
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metadata.value: Mironov, Boris N.
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metadata.value: 2017-10-09T15:24:05Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2017-10-09T15:24:05Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2017-09
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metadata.value: Mironov B. N. Achievements and failures of the russian economy during the First world war. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2017, vol. 62, issue 3, pp. 463–480.
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metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu02.2017.303
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/8441
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metadata.value: This article argues that the First World War did not in itself create insurmountable objective
  preconditions for revolution. In 1914–1916 the Russian economy succeeded in reorganizing itself and
  mobilizing to meet the state’s military needs. Industrial output within the empire’s territory (excluding
  Poland and Finland) increased by 22 percent in between 1914 4 and 1916, while labor productivity
  rose by 8 percent. Agricultural yields declined between 1914 4 and 1916, with yields in 1916 lower
  than those of 1909–1913 by 19 percent, but this reduced productivity was attributable to weather, not
  to the war. Furthermore, despite this 19-percent decline in yields, the domestic demand for grain at the
  national level was entirely met thanks to the prohibition in 1914 of alcohol distillation and grain export,
  two activities that in 1909–1913 had consumed 24 percent of the net grain harvest. From 1914 to
  1916 livestock numbers rose by 29 percent. The rail transportation system successfully handled increased
  freight loads. In 1916, 52 percent more freight was transported than in 1914, and passenger
  traffic grew by 30 percent; freight trains’ scheduled speed over the entire rail network rose from 14 to
  16 versts per hour. The economy’s ability to adapt satisfactorily to wartime conditions was the product
  of Russia’s successful modernization in the prewar period.
  The overthrow of the monarchy changed the economic situation radically, and after the October
  coup conditions worsened at catastrophic speed. It was the revolution that initially spawned the general
  institutional crisis, which resulted in the paralysis or hampering of the functioning of public and private
  institutions, industrial enterprises, transport, communal services, courts, and law enforcement, and then
  in an all-encompassing economic crisis. Revolutionary parasitism — as one may designate the endless
  demonstrations, parades, rallies, marches, and the like—which under new circumstances had acquired
  the importance of prestigious revolutionary activity and was remunerated as if it were productive work,
  served only to intensify the crisis and seemed like ‘fiddling while Rome burned’. Refs 56.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 62; Issue 3
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: First World War
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Russian Revolution of 1917
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: causes of revolution
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: informational terrorism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: dual deprivation
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: power struggle among elites
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: information warfare
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: economic situation of a country
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: standard of living
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: criminality
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: suicide
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: revolutionary parasitism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Achievements and failures of the russian economy during the First world war
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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