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
    • 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
      • - 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
      • strike wave spreads
        • In Poland authorities had to end Russification measures
          • Polish allowed again in schools
        • Armenians and Azeris kill each other
      • 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
    • 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
      • 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

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