1905 Part 1 Flashcards
Russo-Japanese war:
February 1904- September 1905
Russia was poorly equipped, and the supply line had to come from factories … miles away from the battle front.
3700 miles
Worker’s wages decreased from by … between … to …
by 1/4 between October 1903 and 1904
Four members dismissed from the Putilov Factory on..
20 December 1904
… people went on strike on …
120,000 on January 8 1905
Bloody Sunday:
9 January 1905
Gabon on Bloody Sunday:
“There is no God anymore, there is no Tsar”
Bloody Sunday casualties:
200 dead, 800 injured
CPSU:
“The workers received a bloody lesson. It was their faith in the Tsar that was riddled with bullets on that day. They came to realise they could only win their rights by struggle.”
Pipes:
“The popular myth of a Good Tsar which had sustained the regime through the centuries was suddenly destroyed”
Peasant uprisings resulted in:
Nearly 3000 manors were destroyed, and from January to October, the army was used 2700 times to quell uprisings.
Battle of Tsushima:
14 May 1905