The 1905 revolution

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The 1905 revolution
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Causes of revolution in 1905

• Economic problems
• - bad living and working conditions for
  peasants and for urban workers
• - Govt policies made this worse high taxes
  to pay for industrial development, wages kept low
• - industrial slump 1902 jobs lost!
• - poor harvests 1900, 1902 riots
• - police and army used but violence
  continues 1902, 1903

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Causes of revolution in 1905

• The Russo Japanese war 1904 05
• - made prices rise, shortages of materials,
  food
• - shortages factories closed
  unemployment!
• - defeats in war Port Arthur fell to
  Japanese

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The trigger cause Bloody sunday

• January 1905 Father Gapon leads march to give
  petition to tsar
• Massacre Russia lurches into chaos

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The 1905 revolution

• Government has little control over the country
• tsar at war with his own people!

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Year of revolution 1905

• January 400,000 workers on strike
• Demonstrations, petitions, peasant uprisings,
  student riots, assassinations
• Mukden, Tsushima, Potemkin!

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Year of revolution 1905

• MC demand a parliament, freedom of speech
• National groups demand independence
• Jews demand equality
• Peasant riots land seized
• Sept peace treaty with Japan Troops now back
  in Russia!

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Year of revolution 1905

• October general strike spreads from Moscow
  barricades in the streets
• St Petersburg soviet set up

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October manifesto the tsar gives..

• A Duma
• Civil rights
• Uncensored newspapers and the right to form
  political parties.

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1905 the tsar back in power?

• MC stop protests and support government
• Troops used to close St Petersburg soviet and
  uprising in Moscow
• Troops sent into the countryside
• Stolypins necktie!