Sergei Witte

Industrialise from above

Capitalism by command of the state.

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Governance+48

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The finance minister who industrialised Imperial Russia from the top down — railways, the gold standard, foreign capital — and drafted the October Manifesto granting Russia its first constitution.

social

Pragmatic moderniser, traditional in milieu.

economic

Drove rapid capitalist industrialisation under state direction.

governance

A reforming minister of the autocracy who conceded a constitution.

Notable for

Trans-Siberian Railway
Put Russia on the gold standard
Drafted the October Manifesto

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