1905 REVOLUTION CAUSE

Question 1

‘war with own people’

Answer 1

workers/mc/populist/national minorities/peasnts

Question 2

social changes since 1855-greter strain autocracy

Answer 2

emancipation,a.2refroms,von return/bunge/polish rebellion
=intrest of new social classes (wc/mc more dangers than peasntry-as neglected)

Question 3

long term causes dicscontent
alinetanted

Answer 3

mc liberals participate in gov/national assembly for democracy
-students repressed over gov controlles (STUDENT RADACLISING/UNION OF LIBERATION)

Question 4

long term causes dicscontent
revolutionaries

Answer 4

socialist revolutionaries wanted peasant rev(farming peasant union 1903+propaganda)
social democrates (marxists) urban wc to stage rev to create socialist state-enc to strike

Question 5

long term causes dicscontent
national minorities

Answer 5

poles/jewish/automy, indepenced end rustication

Question 6

long term causes dicscontent
economic policy: PEASNTS

Answer 6

poverty-need more land, high taxes, redeem on land, famine, inc pop

Question 7

long term causes dicscontent
economic policy WORKERS

Answer 7

long hours, low pay, terrible working/living conditions wanted more political power

Question 8

tarist regime

Answer 8

weak/indesisive, repressive,no mov towards constitutional gov, denied basic reforms (parties/press), no concessions to nationalities -repressed

Question 9

sergie economic policy

Answer 9

state promoted industrialisation policy-urbanw/peasts squeezed by high indirect taxes/low wage
economic slump 1902-high unemployment/social tensions In towns/cities
poor harvests 1900-starvation,faminie,violence

Question 10

catalyst rjw

Answer 10

defeats on land/sea shocked russia public
lost port Arthur jan 1905
shortage of food/fuel/high prices/unemploy
incompetent

Question 11

Bloody Sunday

Answer 11

wanted to hear about concerns/respomnd to petitoon= slaughter (peaceful protests)

Question 12

short term poor performance in RJW strikes discontent

Answer 12

-expectations of easy vic high:biggest army=gov incompetent
unprecedented press cover rage of failures =humil
war expensive = slump in Econ

Question 13

Bloody Sunday led to 1905 rev

Answer 13

liberal pressed for constitutional change-workers strikes enc ‘soviets’ set by workers/rev
peasant disturbances enc
naval mutinies/national min rebel =October manifesto promised civil liberties / national assembly