Russia in Revolution - The cause of the 1905 Revoltion
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- Russia in Revolution
- Russification
- religious persecution
- Orthadox faith superior. Other religions discriminated against
- e.g employment
- Orthadox faith superior. Other religions discriminated against
- Anti - Semitism
- The 'Pograms' or attacks on Jews during 1880s
- In 1892, 20,000 jews were forced to leave Moscow
- Russian made the official language of the Empire in 1955
- Alienated a huge percentage of the population (ethnic minorities)
- religious persecution
- Repression
- censorship
- censorship on foreign books + newspapers
- 14 popular newspapers closed down
- education
- Universities
- Fees increased so university was for the elites
- Under government control to prevent a spread of liberal ideas
- Primary schools under church control to influence children from an early age
- Universities
- Statue of State Security 1881
- arrested and exiled all political opposition
- Okhrana
- Suppressed all political opposition
- Justice System
- Introduction of Land Captains
- The government could choose the jury on court cases and therefore control the outcome
- censorship
- Social and economic
- Peasant unrest
- Witte's increased taxes
- growing population led to land shortages
- Redemption payments
- 1887 Vyshnegradsky reforms
- Heavy industry e.g railway, iron, steal + coal
- funded by grain export
- contributed to famine
- industrialisation
- increased middle class
- moved from the country to the city
- allowed for the spread of liberal ideas
- group of successful professional business men
- wanted a political voice
- driving force behind change
- wanted a political voice
- moved from the country to the city
- increased working class
- long hours, low pay, terrible working + living conditions, no unions
- mass population of unhappy peasants living together
- spread of liberal ideas
- mass population of unhappy peasants living together
- long hours, low pay, terrible working + living conditions, no unions
- increased middle class
- Peasant unrest
- increasing political opposition
- social revolutionaries
- Right SRs
- wanted a revolution through the peasants
- spread out and illiterate
- wanted a revolution through the peasants
- Left SRs
- terrorist wing who assassinated leading government officials
- divided
- Right SRs
- liberal ideas
- political parties banned
- Zemstva Act 1904
- Social democrats - Marxist
- Mensheviks
- Wanted a large group cooperating with the workers
- Bolsheviks
- under Lenin
- Small group of professionals
- many exiled before 1905
- believed in capitalism before revolution
- Mensheviks
- social revolutionaries
- Short term
- Social + econimic
- hundreds of thousands lost jobs
- strikes
- poor harvests 1900 + 1902
- world depression meant there was no longer foreign investment
- hundreds of thousands lost jobs
- Russo Japanese War
- worsened social + economic problems
- Social + econimic
- hundreds of thousands lost jobs
- strikes
- poor harvests 1900 + 1902
- world depression meant there was no longer foreign investment
- hundreds of thousands lost jobs
- inflation
- food and fuel shortages
- higher taxes
- Social + econimic
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- worsened social + economic problems
- Bloody Sunday
- ruined Tsar's reputation as 'little father'
- protest about social + economic issues
- Social + econimic
- Russification
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