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Witte: How He Benefited Russia. Witte was a revolutionary in the sense that he was the first man in a tsarist governmen  

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Witte: How He Benefited Russia. Witte was a revolutionary in the sense that he was the first man in a tsarist government that stood up for the working classes. His ideas were mainly built on the work of such writers as Vyshnegradsky, and much of what he achieved can be attributed to his predecessors and their work. Throughout his career as Minister Of Finance he consistently surprised the opposition with his reforms and although he fought to protect tsarism, he was like nothing any one had seen before. He was an enlightened man who realised that if Russia was to grow economically it had to come to terms with the many problems that faced the tsarist regime. His plan was to aid Russia's development through industrialisation, but he was not going to make the mistakes made by other nations. His vision was to rapidly industrialise with force, and cut out the impoverished instability...

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