The working conditions of the growing Russian industrial class in St. Petersburg and Moscow
A. improved dramatically after the passage in 1897 of a law establishing an eight-hour work day.
B. were terrible and left the workers receptive to revolutionary propaganda.
C. were much better than their earlier English and French counterparts had been.
D. improved when their main economic competitors, the serfs, became an un-free class in 1861.
E. were the best in Europe at the time.
Answer: B
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A. Great Britain B. Germany C. the Soviet Union D. France
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a. Sumerians b. Egyptians c. Assyrians d. Persians e. Mesopotamians
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