The Witt System and the Mexican Revolution

Finance minister serge vitt was appointed in august 18 92, and would serve for 11 years. He pushed hard for the trans siberian railway, which would soon have him playing a major diplomatic role with china and japan. Between 18 90 and 19 hundred, the amount of railroad track doubled, from 30 thousand kilometers to 60 thousand kilometers. Annual output of coal and petroleum all more or less tripled; value of annual textile production doubled.