You are making me confused agrbear. You said you are looking at all these stats and census figures but you just told zvadeza that too much stats make you miss the truth. Then some other poster on another thread said that Russia government policies in 1890s were chahnged to be against labor but you say the policies were favorable. Its nice to know the name of all those people living in your ancestors households. I would like to know the same from my family but it confuses me what that means about anything.
Dear Binky,
I did not mean to confuse you.
zvadeza and I have been having a go-around about the differences of facts found in his communist history books as compared to my western written books and in my own family history which contradicts his communist history which at times seems to twist the truth as well as eliminate many truths of what occured in Russia between Lenin and the fall of the Berlin Wall. I did not mean that one should never look at stats.
When I mentioned my family this time, I was speaking about the census and my personal view of the census I've read while researching my family genealogy.
I am greatly interested in true stories about Russian families and how they lived. History is a collection of stories, no matter how unimpotant they seem.
1890s
>>It was not until the closing decades of the nineteethy century that Russia entered the industrial age. Only then, under the impact of favorable goverment politices, did traditional Russian soceity begin to undergo a rapid transfromation. Vast rual areas were soon converted into factory villages, and urban centers expanded to absorb new factories, shops, and residential districts. But most significant of all, a new and greatly enlgarge workign population was formed as tens of thousands of peasants migrated from country side, forwaking their plows for jobs in cities and town."<<
p. 1 in THE RUSSIAN WORKER, LIFE AND LABOR UNDER THE TSARIST REGIME by Victoria E. Bonnell.
A number of policies allowed this to occur.
Not all the policies under Alex. III or his son Nicholas II were bad.
AGRBear
PS It appears posters are talking about Nicholas II and the royal mail on two threads. Not sure I should ask my next question???