What Was the Major Reason the Russian State Resisted Industrialization

question 23

Multiple Choice

What was the major reason the Russian state resisted industrialization?

• A) A deep suspicion of western ideas, especially liberalism and socialism
• B) It was trying to initiate a communist revolution first.
• C) Long-term disputes with Germany led to reluctance to use German advisers.
• D) Serfs could not learn how to run machines.
• E) Local landowners feared losing their labor force if peasants left the fields to go to factories.

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