Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Should Witte be remembered as a successful reformer?
- Railways
- Most foreign investment went towards railways
- Hoped it would boost foreign
trade
- Trans-Siberian Railway project
- Lack of middle
class
- Believed modernising Russia relied on effective railways.
- Grain
exports
- Stabilised
economy
- Gold standard
- Heavy taxes on peasants
- Helped Industrialisation