Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Describe the economic situation in 1855
- Quotes
- "Wasteland behind Europe's back yard" Alexander Grinevsky
- Backward
- Labour
- 11:1 village to town dwellers vs Britain, 2:1
- Small middle class
- No entrepreneurs or wealth creators
- High unemployment
- Serfs starved during winter due to inefficient strip farming
- Goods and the economy
- Reliant on agriculture
- Main exports: raw materials
- Coal, timber, oil etc
- Self-sufficient- peasants could live without entering the market
- Reliant on serfs, free labour
- Slow economic growth
- Low incentive
- Serfs no wage
- Trading more common than money
- Much of Russia inhospitable