Origins of the 1905 Revolution
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- Created on: 17-04-14 13:12
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- Origins of the 1905 Revolution
- Workers
- Working population was growing (Population of St Petersburg doubled 1890-1914)
- Peasants moving to become workers, less food being produced = famine
- Poor living/working conditions
- Shortage of bread, bread queues in Moscow
- Strikes, largely disorganised so easy to stop
- National Minorities
- Tsar trying to russify them, strikes as a result
- Pogram attacks on Jewish, people blaming minorites for famine
- Wanted independence
- Peasants
- Pressure to produce for growing population with basic tools
- 1901-Series of crop failures
- 1902-Peasant uprisings "on verge of revolution"
- 1890s- Jacqueries: peasant attack on landlords
- Reformist middle classes
- Frustrated by lack of change, don't think Nicholas II is moving Russia forward
- Hard for them to suggest change as no-one listens
- Opposition groups repressed by Okrahna
- Inherent problems with Tsarism
- Absolute power- dependent on individual tsar
- Nicholas II wasn't dynamic and had few effective ministers to help him
- Okrahna meant that there was significant political repression all the time
- Blood sunday made people question whether tsar was helpful
- Depression and famine
- terrible harvest caused famine and had a direct impact on workers and peasants
- 1899- Severe economic depression leading to unemployment
- 1902-03 mass strikes and demonstrations in cities
- Russo-Japanese War
- Nothing good came out of this for Russia
- Fear and tension rose
- War only made problems and prolonged existing ones
- People started to loose faith in the tsar
- Drop in moral
- Height of the "summer of discontent"
- Workers
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