Causes of the 1905 revolution
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- Created on: 28-01-14 19:28
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- Causes of the 1905 revolution
- Long term discontent
- Alienated intelligentsia
- Middle-class liberals wanted to participate in government
- Students protested against repressive government
- Revolutionaries
- SR's wanted peasants to revolt
- SD's wanted working class to revolt
- National minorities
- Wanted more authority and independence
- Wanted to end russification
- Workers
- Upset by long hours, low pay, terrible working & living conditions
- Wanted more political power
- Peasants
- Upset about poverty, need for more land, high taxes, land redemption payments
- Suffered famine periods
- Increased population meant more pressure on land
- Alienated intelligentsia
- Government policy
- Tsarist regime
- Weak indecisive Tsar
- Repressive government
- No moves to constitutional government
- Denied basic freedoms
- Wittes economic policy
- Urban workers and peasants were squeezed hard by high taxes and low wages
- Economic slump after 1902 led to high unemployment
- Poor harvests in 1900 &1902 lead to starvation and violence in the countryside
- Tsarist regime
- Events
- Outbreak of Russo-Japanese war
- Defeat on land and sea shocked Russian people
- Caused food & fuel shortages
- Lost port arthur
- Surge of discontent - Tsar and gov thought to be incompetant
- Bloody sunday
- Tsars troops fired on peaceful demonstartors
- People started to see the Tsar as less of a God
- Outbreak of Russo-Japanese war
- Long term discontent
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