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In 1903, the Second Congress of the SD party met in exile in Brussels to try and unite. However, the party split into two irreconcilable factions:
the Bolsheviks, headed by […]
and the […]
headed by […]

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Vladimir Lenin

Mensheviks

Julius Martov

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A central issue at the (SD) congress was the question of the definition of party […]

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membership

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(SD membership)
Lenin wanted a small […]

Martov wanted […]

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centralised group
(like a strike team, trustworthy and committed to the cause)

a big organisation with loose membership rules
(anyone could donate / attend etc.)

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Was the (SD) split permanent?

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Yes

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What was Russia looking to do at the beginning of the twentieth century?

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Expand its empire

in particular, it had its eye on China and Korea

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What project signalled this intent (expansion)?

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Witte’s Trans-Siberian railway

entering territory secured unfairly by Russia after the Sino-Japanese War 1895

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What treaty saw Russia trick Japan out of the spoils of the first Sino-Japanese War?

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Treaty of Shimonoseki

1895

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Following the first Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895), the Japanese next went to war with […]

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Russia

in the Russo-Japanese War, starting 1904

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The name of the port that Japan surrounded, cut off from supplies and kept under siege until 20 December, 1904 was […]

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Port Arthur

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Attacking Port Arthur did what?

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Started the Russo-Japanese War

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On December 1904, four workers at which ironworks were fired due to radicalism?

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Putilov Ironworks

in St Petersburg

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Virtually the entire workforce of this ironworks went on strike, and sympathy strikes in other parts of the city raised the number of strikers up to […]

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150 000

from more than 300 factories

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By 8 January, 1905, all public areas were declared […]

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closed

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Who decided to prepare a petition to be presented to the Tsar?

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Father Gapon

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Gapon’s petition called for improved […]

It also wanted (name two things) […]

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working conditions
(such as fair wages / reduction in the working day to 8h)

an end to the R-J W and the introduction of universal suffrage

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Was the Tsar sympathetic to Gapon’s petition?

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No

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For industrial workers, the average working day was how many hours / days a week?

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10.5 hours, 6 days a week

no annual holidays, sick leave etc.

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Food prices in the cities increased by as much as […]

Did wages increase accordingly?

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50%

No

19
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Instead of ‘Little Father’, Nicholas II came to be known as […]

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‘Nicholas the Bloody’

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Bloody Sunday 1905 began as a relatively peaceful protest by disgruntled steel workers in […]

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St Petersburg

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Angered by poor working conditions, an economic slump and the ongoing war with Japan, thousands marched on the […]

To do what?

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Winter Palace 
(in St Petersburg)

Plead with Tsar Nicholas II for reform

22
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B.S.

The Tsar was not present and the workers were […]

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gunned down on the streets by panicky soldiers

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B.S.

some estimates put the number killed as high as […]

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4000

Tsar claimed 96

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“Bloody Sunday” triggered a fresh wave of general strikes, peasant unrest and assassinations. This political mobilisation became known as the 1905 […]

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Russian Revolution

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The battle of Mukden was the last major […] of the Russo-Japanese War.

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major land battle

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(Mukden)
It was fought in what month of what year?

Between […]

Victory went to the […]

With Russia losing how many men?

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February, 1905

Russia and Japan

Japanese

90,000

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What was the significance of the defeat at Mukden back at home in Russia? It reflects badly on […]

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The majesty / power of the Tsar

encouraging radicalism

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The Zemstvo was a form of […]

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local government

29
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Zemstvos consisted of landowners from rural areas who were sympathetic to […]

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Tsarist Russia

30
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Zemstvos held national […]

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“congress”

meetings

31
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In April, 1905, the Second National Zemstvo Congress sent a deputation to […]

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the Tsar

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NZC

This deputation had a loyal petition for a […]

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A Constituent Assembly

a concession the Tsar rejected

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NZC
What did Lenin think of this? Lenin called negotiations with the Tsar pretty trading and the first steps of bourgeois […]

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betrayal

he didn’t want any negotiating, he wanted extremes, then the Tsar gone

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The Zemstvo movement lost its oppositional character after […]

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The October Manifesto, 1905

Zemstvo liberals then openly supported Tsarism

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The Tsushima naval battle on 14 May, 1905, defeated the Russian […] in 24 hours.

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Baltic Fleet

well, 2/3 of it anyway

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This shocking defeat (Tsushima) further reduced the Tsar’s […]

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majesty / power

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The destruction of the Russian navy caused a bitter reaction from […]

which led to a peace treaty in September 1905 without any further […]

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The Russian public

battles

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With the news of the disastrous Battle of Tsushima in May 1905, morale in the Russian navy […]

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dropped

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Which ship mutinied and killed its officers?

This was further evidence of the Tsar’s diminished […]

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The Potemkin

majesty / power

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The embarrassments of Port Arthur, Mukden and Tsushima, along with the growing […]

forced the Tsar’s government to seek peace terms from the […]

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domestic unrest of 1905

Japanese

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R-J W
The Russian peace negotiations were led by […]

who managed to secure reasonable terms with the Treaty of […]

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Sergei Witte

Portsmouth
this was Russia cede control of Port Arthur to the Japanese and acknowledge Japan’s authority over Korea

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The war not only eroded the credibility of the Tsar, it sharpened the impact of an economic […]

that was gripping Russia. The Tsar’s government had increased military spending by what percentage?

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recession

50%
hurting Russia’s new proletariat

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