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Factory Inspection Under the “Witte System”: 1892-1903

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

Theodore H. Von Laue
Theodore H. Von Laue*
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University of California (Riverside)
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The advent of an industrial labor force posed a formidable and, as it turned out in 1917, a fatal array of problems to the government of Imperial Russia. It had to find answers to a number of crucial questions. How was it to reduce the tensions at the factory and carry out its mandate as guardian of order and justice and the protector of the poor? How was the peasant-worker to be fitted into the traditional structure of Russian society? What was the place of industrial labor in the “Witte system”? And how could the government prevent the discontent of the peasant-worker from turning against autocracy itself?

Yet even Witte, who was perhaps more perceptive than his colleagues in regard to the various problems caused by industrialization, viewed “the labor question” with complete confidence.

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Research Article
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American Slavic and East European Review , Volume 19 , Issue 3 , October 1960 , pp. 347 - 362
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Copyright © Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies 1960

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40 76% of all factories, Bykov,op. cit., pp. 266–67.