Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Living and Working Conditions
in Russian Countryside
- 80% of Russia's population was peasant farmers
- the life expectancy of a peasant
farmer was 40 years
- famine and starvation were
common in some places
- Russian peasants still used ancient farming techniques
- land was in very short supply
- there was no basic
education in Russia
- most peasants couldn't read or write
- many peasants were loyal to the Tsar even though they
resented how the land was divided between their classes