History Russian 1905 revolution
- Created by: Louis Duggan
- Created on: 08-02-14 19:21
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- Russia and the 1905 revolution
- Russia was very hard to rule
- It was very large
- Has a population with many different ethnicities
- Most of the country was unsuitable farmland
- Still used old fashion farming techniques leading to low food
- Not much idustrialisation
- Russian Society
- Divided into the really rich and the really poor
- Aristocracy was only 1% of the population
- still owned a quarter of all the land
- Peasants made up 80% of the population
- The growth of opposition to the Tsar
- He was not a good statesmen
- The impact of the 1905 revolution
- There was economic hardship in 1900 and 1902
- The rising middle class wanted the Tsar to share some of his power
- Russia's defeat in the Russo-Japanesewar
- The Massacre on Bloody Sunday
- There was march on the winter palace with 200,000 workers
- The soldiers fired on the peaceful protesters
- This killed hundreds and wounded thousands
- This caused the 1905 revolution
- Peasants rose up and killed there land owners
- 400,000 workers were on srike
- The sailors on the Potemkin mutinied
- The Tsar returned and used the army to regain control of the country by the end of the year he had
- Russia was very hard to rule
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