How Did Sergei Witte Help The Russian Revolution

Before the Industrialization, Russia's factories were unable to produce sufficient amounts of weapons, munitions, and machinery. Due to this Russia had fewer chances to win a battle or protect its territories against intruders. Later they would find out in the Crimean War that they would need to Industrialize which would make the government spend more money on weapons and machinery. Russia Had a huge problem; their railway system was woeful and inadequate. They had insufficient rail lines and rolling stock which didn't let them transport men or equipment in large amounts. In the beginning of the Russian Revolution Alexander II, the czar of Russia let the serfs free. Alexander believed they would become a small labor force and that they would move where industrial worker were needed. They also believed that peasants would start and produce even better ways of farming. This would help Russia by the government gaining more money and using it to make factories for their needs.
Witte made it easier for foreigners to invest in Russian Industrial Ventures; he also borrowed to fund public works and infrastructures such as new railways, telegraph lines and electrical plants. Witte's help helped the Russians improve really quickly, in just a span of twenty years (1880-1900) he made half of Russia's heavy industry to be owned. With the railway's system, he made they were able to transport into remote parts of the empire, which helped with the construction and operation of factories, mines, dams and other projects. The development was so rapid that the historian Alexander Gerschenkron nicknamed it "the great