1905 Revolution Flashcards
Catechism of the Russian Orthodox Church
God commands us to love and obey from the inmost recesses of our heart every authority, and particularly the Tsar.
Empress Alexandra - Whip
Russia wants to feel the whip, its their nature… tender love and then the iron hand to punish and guide.
Alexander Herzen, revolutionary thinker 1868
Bureaucracy had become ‘a kind of civilian priesthood’, the officials who ran Russia were guilty of ‘sucking the blood of the people with thousands of greedy, unclean mouths’
Pobedonostsev
Representative government is ‘the great lie of our time’
Witte - Handmaiden
‘Russia has the right and the strength not to want to remain the handmaiden of states that are more developed economically.’
Beryl Williams
“The vast majority of workers before 1905 never saw a revolutionary.”
Iskra Zubatovism
“It was more terrible to us than is police brutality.”
Christopher Read
“Wherever they were set up, Zubatov unions became a cover for radicals and blew up in the face of their sponsors”.
Tsar Nicholas October Manifesto
‘The disturbances and unrest in St Petersburg, Moscow and in many other parts of our Empire have filled our hearts with great and profound sorrow… Fundamental civil freedoms will be granted to the population, including real personal inviolability, freedom of conscience, speech, assembly and association.’ – Tsar Nicholas II
A Most Humble Loyal Address
‘We workers, our children, our wives, and our old, helpless parents have come, Lord, to seek truth and protection from you. We are impoverished and oppressed, unbearable work is imposed on us, we are despised and not recognized as human beings. We are treated as slaves, who must bear their fate and be silent. We have suffered terrible things, but we are pressed ever deeper into the abyss of poverty, ignorance, and lack of rights.’
Gapon cries
“There is no God any longer. There is no Tsar”
Gapon comrades
“Comrade Workers, tear up all portraits of the blood-sucking Tsar and say to him: Be thou damned with all Thine august reptilian progeny!”
Witte: Russo-Japanese
if returning troops joined the revolution ‘then everything would collapse’ government’s reaction as ‘mixture of cowardice, blindness and stupidity’
Peter Waldron 2007 Governing Tsarist Russia, quoted official
Every day there are several assassinations, either by bomb or revolver or knife or various other instruments, they strike and strike anyhow and at anybody… and one is surprised they have not yet killed us all”
A. Ascher The Revolution of 1905 (2004)
“Invariably meetings would end with shouts of “Down with the autocracy.” It has been estimated that in the course of three weeks in the capital alone, tens of thousands of workers attended one or more meetings devoted to political indoctrination.”
