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Economic modernisation vs backwardness

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Industrial developments accelerated through state-sponsored railways and foreign investment, yet Russia remained overwhelmingly agrarian by 1894.

AQA · 1H Tsarist and Communist Russia, 1855–1964 – Trying to preserve autocracy, 1855–1894 (study guide)

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1H Tsarist and Communist Russia, 1855–1964 – Trying to preserve autocracy, 1855–1894 (AQA A-Level)

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