The 1905 Revolution:spread of revolutionary activity
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- The 1905 Revolution: spread of revolutionary activity
- Peasant revolt
- Violence against government officials and landowners.
- zemstvo's petitions demanding land.
- Land seizures.
- Summer, 1905: authorities lost control of 15% of rural Russia.
- National minorities
- Finns and Poles rebelled.
- Violence in Warsaw and Lodz.
- Tsar forced to end policy of Russification in Finland.
- Finns and Poles rebelled.
- Military unrest
- Potemkin mutiny (June, 1905)
- Sailors took control of the ship and fired on government forces in Odessa.
- End of year=mutinies of troops stationed in/near major cities.
- October, 1905: Kronstadt mutiny near St Petersburg.
- Potemkin mutiny (June, 1905)
- Urban unrest
- Strikes in cities broke out on a major scale.
- Urban violence focused on Jews.
- Took place in October in Odessa.
- 400 Jews killed.
- 1600 Jewish homes destroyed.
- Took place in October in Odessa.
- Urban violence focused on Jews.
- Strikes in cities broke out on a major scale.
- St Petersburg Soviet
- Tsar's August Manifesto had failed to end unrest.
- End of 1905: 2.7 m workers on strike.
- Nature
- Elected commitee: 500 delegates who represented 200,000 workers.
- Set up to co-ordinate strikes, but also ran aspects of the St Petersburg.
- Elected commitee: 500 delegates who represented 200,000 workers.
- Impact
- Catalyzed the making of many more Soviets.
- End of October: 50 towns each had Soviets.
- Started political campaigns for better working hours and pay.
- Catalyzed the making of many more Soviets.
- Trotsky's role
- Leading role among members of RSDLP.
- Helped Soviet avoid confrontation with government by abandoning some radical demands= taking a middle ground.
- Leading role among members of RSDLP.
- End of the Soviet
- Closed by force in December by Tsarist troops who stormed a meeting.
- In response: Bolshevik uprising took place in Moscow.
- It was crushed easily; over 1,000 dead.
- By December, Tsar was in a stronger position.
- October Manifesto won majority of middle class liberals.
- Crushing Soviet=end of 1905 revolution.
- By December, Tsar was in a stronger position.
- It was crushed easily; over 1,000 dead.
- In response: Bolshevik uprising took place in Moscow.
- Closed by force in December by Tsarist troops who stormed a meeting.
- Tsar's August Manifesto had failed to end unrest.
- Peasant revolt
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