Why was there a revolution in 1905?
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- Why was there a revolution in 1905?
- Political problems
- No elected parliament
- People had no voice
- Only elected institution was the Zemstva
- Revolutionary groups spread revolutionary ideas.
- Caused crisis in the countryside.
- Destroyed records of debts..
- 2000 political assassinations including Tsar's Uncle
- Caused crisis in the countryside.
- No elected parliament
- Economic problems
- Rising Population
- Pressure agricultural demand that it couldn't meet.
- Subsistence farming.
- Many peasants flocked to cities.
- Result of Wittes spurt which created many jobs.
- Conditions were terrible.
- Result of Wittes spurt which created many jobs.
- Pressure agricultural demand that it couldn't meet.
- Government industrialisation.
- Large purpose built factories.
- Created lots of production but strikes could involve thousands.
- Large purpose built factories.
- Hungry, poorly treated people.
- Radicalised by SR's and SD's
- Took part in demonstrations such as Bloody Sunday.
- Radicalised by SR's and SD's
- Rising Population
- Bloody Sunday
- 9th January 1905.
- Father Gapon
- Protestors marched to the Winter Palace with a petition.
- Wanted end to the Russo-Japanese war.
- Called for 8 hour working day and better pay.
- Tsar ordered no one should near the palace.
- Soldiers fired on protesters.
- Wasn't in residence.
- Unrealistic for him to meet the protestors.
- Impacts
- Peasants stole land from land owners.
- Half million workers went on strike.
- Affected railways which stopped food reaching cities.
- Organised by St Petersburg Soviet
- Trotsky was key player,
- Demonstrated Tsars inability to control anything without violence and repression.
- Russians no longer saw Tsar as their 'Little father'.
- All Russian Peasants Union struggled to organise peasants on a national level.
- Russo- Japanese War
- Started in 1904.
- Performance of military was linked to Tsars control and authority over the Russian people.
- Defeated on Land and Sea by smaller but industrially developed Japan.
- Defeats led to mutinies.
- Potemkin Mutiny in June 1905.
- Killed officers
- Bombarded port of Odessa
- Potemkin Mutiny in June 1905.
- Defeats led to mutinies.
- Defeated on Land and Sea by smaller but industrially developed Japan.
- Army morale was low.
- Nicholas wasn't confident in using it against the masses.
- Remained loyal throughout.
- Context
- Russians had been unhappy for years.
- Bloody Sunday was the spark.
- Caused by long term and short term factors.
- Poor working conditions,
- Major crisis for the government.
- Political problems
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