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Hint
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Answer
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How many university students were there in 1855
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3500
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How many miles of railway tracks did Russia have
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570
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How many miles of railway tracks did Britain have
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7000
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What % of the population lives in larger towns and cities in 1855
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1.6
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How many primary schools were there in 1856
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8000
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How many primary schools were there in 1880
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23000
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How did the number of children in primary school change
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400000 to over 1 million
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How many university students were there in the 1870s
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10000
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How many Jewish people were in the Russian Empire
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5 million
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When did pogroms break out
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April 1881
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How many decrees were made against Jews
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600
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When were they May laws
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1882
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By what % did the Russian economy grow per annum in the 1890s
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8
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When and where did strikes begin
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3rd January 1905
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How many people were involved
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150000
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When was Bloody Sunday
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9th January 1905
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How many were killed
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200
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How many were wounded
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800
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When was the mutiny on the Battleship Potemkin
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14th June 1905
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When was the Social Democratic Labour Party formed
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1898
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How many strikers were there on 23rd February 1917
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90,000
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How many strikers were there on 25th February
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250,000
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What % of all Russian coal was supplied by the Donbas region of Ukraine by 1913
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87
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What % of all Russian pig iron was supplied by Krivoi Rog in Ukraine by 1913
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74
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What % growth rate did Russia experience per year from 1908-1913
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8.5
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How many tons of grain were produced a year by 1914
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90 million
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How many died or were wounded in Battle of Tannenburg
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300,000
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How many desertions were there in 1916
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1.5 million
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What % of workers did Russia lose in the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
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40
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The general strike of July 1914 paralysed what fraction of St Petersburg’s industrial manufacturing and commercial plants
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4/5
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What was membership of Bolsheviks in February 1917
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23,000
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What was membership of Bolsheviks in October 1917
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200,000
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How many people died in Lena Goldfields massacre?
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270
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How many trade unions were closed down between 1905 and 1914
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almost 500
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How many votes did the SR's get in the election to the constituent assembly in November 1917
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410
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How many did the Bolsheviks get
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175
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What was proclaimed in July 1918
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Russian Soviet Federation Socialist Republic
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When were the Tsar, his wife, and his children murdered
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17th July 1918
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What was established in December 1922
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Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
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Between 1918-20 Petrograd lost what fraction of its population?
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3/4
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By 1921, what % had industrial output fallen by
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20
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The harvest of 1921 produced what % of the 1913 level
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48
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What was Russia’s population in 1913
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170.9 million
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What was Russia’s population in 1921
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130.9 million
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From 1914-Jan 1917, by what % did prices increase
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300
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What did this increase to by October
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755
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When was Trotsky forced from his position as Commissar of War
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December 1925
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What number was party membership at in 1925
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1,000,000
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What number was party membership at in 1933
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3,555,000
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What number was party membership at in 1940
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3,399,000
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When were gulags created
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1929
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When did the liquidisation of kulaks start
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January 1930
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How many people were stripped of property or sent to labour camps
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6 million
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By the end of 1930 how many kulak families had been exiled
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2 million
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By the end of 1930 how many kulak families had been shot
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20,201
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When did mass cleansing start
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1933
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When was the trial of the 16
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August 1935
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How many cases were reviewed
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1.5 million
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What % of officer corps in all three services were tried
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50
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How many people from minority ethnic groups were put on trial
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350,000
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One aim of 1st 5-year plan was to increase production by what %
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300
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When did the Moscow metro open?
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1935
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When was collectivism launched
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1929
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By March 1930 what % of peasant households had been collectivised?
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58
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What % of people lived in towns in 1926
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17
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What % of people lived in towns in 1939
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33
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When was the pact of non-aggression signed?
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23rd August 1939
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What were the total casualties for the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa?
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4.5 million
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How many people were sentenced to death under 'not one step backwards' order
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over 150,000
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