A History of Modern Europe - From the Renaissance to the Present

750 Ch. 19 • Rapid Industrialization and Its Challenges

Map 19.1 Russian Industrialization, 1870-1914 Areas of industrial concen­

tration, including kinds of industry and resources.

Yet Russian industry also developed rapidly beginning in the mid-1890s,

benefiting from advanced technology imported from Western Europe (see

Map 19.1). Foreign investment in Russia, above all from France, more

than doubled during the 1890s. Although textiles still represented the

largest branch of Russian industry, heavy industries, particularly metal­

lurgy, boomed. The state helped develop heavy metals and fuel production,