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Critically evaluate/assess the achievements of Sergei Witte and their consequences for the social groups in Tsarist Russia up to 1906.
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/ Critically evaluate/assess the achievements of Sergei Witte and their consequences for the social groups in Tsarist Russia up to 1906. In the late 1800s, Russia domestic backwardness and vulnerability in foreign affairs reached crisis proportions after famine claimed half a million life's in 1891 and activities by Japan and China near Russia's borders were perceived as threats from abroad. Reaction to this was adopting the ambitious but costly economic programs of Witte (the country's strong-willed minister of finance). He spent most of his time during the 1870s - 1880s involved in private enterprises, particularly the administration and management of various railroad lines in Russia. By 1893 he became minister of finance. Sergei Witte's memo to Nicholas I, "Russia's more than any other country needs a proper economic foundation for her national policy and culture. International competition does not wait . . . Our economic backwardness may lead to political and cultural backwardness...
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