1905 Revolution
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- 1905 Revolution
- Causes
- Economic downturn of 1899
- dangerous situation in urban areas
- international price of grain dropped
- heavy inflation (devaluation of the rouble)
- Russia's foreign debt and need for imports grew
- war and military preparations
- consume government revenues
- wages= low
- employment rates= insecure
- more susceptible to political education from political groups
- propaganda
- Lose Russo Japanese War
- sparks social unrest
- war revealed Russian military leaders had a lack of knowledge with dealing with the enemy
- Russian public associated military incompetence of this scale with the tsar himself
- Treaty of Portsmouth August 1905
- Russia had to acknowledge sovereignty in Korea
- Bloody Sunday
- 200 killed and 800 wounded
- children and women were placed in front of the protest to prevent soldiers from shooting
- Russia was directly effected
- Economic downturn of 1899
- Events
- 1905: strike began in the Putilov works in St Petersburg over the sacking of five workers, for joining a semi-official union
- Sympathy strikes spread across the city
- By the 7th of January 150,000 workers were on strike, in 282 factories
- Sympathy strikes spread across the city
- - 9th January an Orthodox priest named Father Gapon led a demonstration
- St Petersburg workers to present a petition to the Tsar, calling for greater rights for workers and a national Duma.
- demand better pay
- trade union rights
- Bloody Sunday :22nd January
- up to 4000 killed
- St Petersburg workers to present a petition to the Tsar, calling for greater rights for workers and a national Duma.
- strike wave spreads
- In Poland authorities had to end Russification measures
- Polish allowed again in schools
- Armenians and Azeris kill each other
- In Poland authorities had to end Russification measures
- assassination of Tsar's uncle on 4th February
- targeted by SR Combat Organisation
- Tsar issues Bulgin Rescript
- promises freedom of speech
- formation of State Duma
- October: strikes by railways began
- national strike
- 1905: strike began in the Putilov works in St Petersburg over the sacking of five workers, for joining a semi-official union
- Results
- Soviets formed in St Petersburg and Moscow
- Mensheviks, Bolsheviks and SRs play important role
- Tsar accepts cabinet government
- Witte becomes Prime Minister
- October Manifesto passed on 17th October
- freedom of speech
- universal manhood suffrage
- right to form political parties
- liberal parties formed
- Constitutional Democrats
- Trotsky elected chairmen
- Octobrists
- Constitutional Democrats
- Black Hundreds
- formed to preserve autocracy
- attack Jews, socialists and liberals
- Finland overthrew its' Diet
- created New Parliament of Finland
- brought Russification policies to a halt
- created New Parliament of Finland
- Soviets formed in St Petersburg and Moscow
- Causes
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