The Working Conditions of the Growing Russian Industrial Class in St.Petersburg

question 55

Multiple Choice

The working conditions of the growing Russian industrial class in St.Petersburg and Moscow

• A) were the best in Europe at the time.
• B) improved dramatically after the passage in 1897 of a law establishing an eight-hour work day.
• C) were terrible and left the workers receptive to revolutionary propaganda.
• D) were much better than their earlier English and French counterparts had been.
• E) improved when their main economic competitors,the serfs,became an un-free class in 1861.

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