Events of 1905
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- Events of 1905
- June 1904-1905: Russo-Japanese War
- Dec 1904:Major Strike at Putilov Steel Works in St Petersburg (workers)
- Jan 1905: Fall of Port Arthur, Baltic Fleet were blocked in
- Led to many strikes and had a direct impact on homefront
- Nov 1904: Zemstvo Congress Banquet Campaign
- Start to question the tsar and running of the country, want reforms (middle class)
- Led to many strikes and had a direct impact on homefront
- Jan 1905: Fall of Port Arthur, Baltic Fleet were blocked in
- Dec 1904:Major Strike at Putilov Steel Works in St Petersburg (workers)
- Nov 1904: Zemstvo Congress Banquet Campaign
- Start to question the tsar and running of the country, want reforms (middle class)
- Dec 1904:Major Strike at Putilov Steel Works in St Petersburg (workers)
- Jan 1905: Fall of Port Arthur, Baltic Fleet were blocked in
- Jan 1905: Fall of Port Arthur, Baltic Fleet were blocked in
- All these events led to Bloody Sunday 9/22nd Jan
- June 1904-1905: Russo-Japanese War
- Father Gapon led 200,000 workers through the streets of St Petersburg to the Tsar's Winter Palace to give him their complaints
- 96 killed and 333 wounded
- June 1904-1905: Russo-Japanese War
- Bloody Sunday led to strikes and over 500,000 workers went on strike
- these were still unorganised
- Feb 1905- Grand Duke Sergei assassinated (Tsars uncle) by member of the peoples will
- April 1905: Jacqueries- Peasants attacking landlords
- June 1905- Union of Unions formed and planned a General Strike to stop disorganised ones
- May/June 1905: Battle of Tsushima and Baltic fleet was defeated
- Crew of battleship Potemkin mutinied in support of striking workers
- Army moved in and 2000 were killed, 3000 injured
- Crew of battleship Potemkin mutinied in support of striking workers
- August 1905- Railway workers strike which leads to a general strike
- August 1905: Witte negotiates truce with Japan
- August 1905: Trotsky sets up St Petersburg Soviet, rival to the tsar
- October 1905: October Manifesto, Witte wrote this and the tsar sent it off
- The tsar couldn't pass a law without the Duma's approval
- End to censorship, opposition groups were allowed
- This would only come into power if people stopped striking, which the majority did
- In theory, the tsar's absolute power was given up
- 1906- Fundamental Law: No law could be put in place without the tsar's approval
- Absolute power was back
- Manifesto was basically destroyed
- June 1904-1905: Russo-Japanese War
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