By N. G. O. Pereira
ISBN-10: 0773513493
ISBN-13: 9780773513495
Pereira argues that the White counter-revolution failed in Siberia as a result political weak spot of the anti-Soviet governments vying for energy within the sector and particularly due to their rules towards the Siberian peasantry. He highlights similarities and alterations between their constitutional courses and ideologies, paying specific cognizance to the Kolchak executive because the leader anti-Bolshevik strength within the area. via his research of the clash Pereira makes an attempt to figure out no matter if parliamentary democracy stood any genuine likelihood less than the intense situations or even if it was once, because the Bolsheviks alleged, basically window-dressing hiding the true time table of counter-revolution by means of army potential and recovery of the ancien regime.
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S. 27 Between 1901 and 1910 the amount of Siberian grain exported to Russia and Europe increased from 110,000 tons to over a million. During the course of the next three years the rise was even more dramatic. In Tomsk guberniia, for example, wheat production doubled. Nevertheless, the value of commodities imported into Siberia (especially its eastern portion) was far greater than what was exported; even regionalists had to concede that "altogether the central government spent more than it received from Eastern Siberia ...
The Siberian peasant feels equal in rights ... "68 The course of economic development, in particular, continued to bring Siberia ever closer to European Russia. By 1905 the region was well on its way to becoming an integrated part of the greater Russian system. The opening of the Tiumen'-Omsk railway branch-line in 1913 consolidated this process, making it much easier to move Siberian grain, among other goods, westward. The distance and transport time to the European capitals was reduced by hundreds of miles and several days, with commensurate savings in rail charges which minimized the Cheliabinsk Tariff differential.
New industrial growth was further boosted by the development of coal mining in several key locations along the railway line, as well as by strategically located engineering plants for repairing rail-stock. All this contributed to making Siberia an integral part of the national and world economy to a degree which would have been impossible just a few years earlier. Moreover, the tsarist government committed itself to active encouragement of grain production in Siberia for the sake of export. 69 Still, not everything was changing for the better, and many of the old problems were simply taking new forms.
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