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Question 1

the years 1894 to 1914 brought social changes in ?

Answer 1

both the towns and the countryside

Question 2

whilst not always obvious at the time, changes in the position of the middle classes, workers and peasantry in particular were to have?

Answer 2

political consequences during the war years

Question 3

culturally there was some?

Answer 3

‘modernist’ experimentation which clashed with an in-built traditionalism

Question 4

in 1914 Russia was a society of

Answer 4

contrasts, but the ‘old ways’ soon to be swept aside by the coming of war