2. Actions against revolutionary parties

Question 1

Revolutionary parties after 1905

Answer 1

• Not outlawed but leaders and organisations subjected to repressive activity
• Either arrested or driven into foreign exile

Question 2

Siberia

Answer 2

• Trotsky and other leaders of St Petersburg Soviet sentenced in 1906 to lifetime exile in Siberia
• He escaped from train taking him eastwards - made his way abroad

Question 3

Lenin

Answer 3

• In St Petersburg from Nov 1905 to summer 1906

- Took refuge in Finland - left Finland for Western Europe

Question 4

Where were most revolutionary leaders following events in Russia from, by 1914?

Answer 4

• From London, Paris, Zurich or Geneva

Question 5

After 2nd Duma dissolved

Answer 5

Revolutionary parties further targeted:

• Arrest of Duma’s Bolshevik members - chawed w/ inciting mutiny in army forces
• Action taken against Bolshevik, Menshevik, SR activists throughout Russia - many arrested

Over 2,000 arrests in ‘Black Earth’ province

Question 6

Impact of repression by Stolypin

Answer 6

• Revolutionary parties - their organisational structures disrupted - left weakened and demoralised

Question 7

‘Expropriation’

Answer 7

• Boosting party funds by robbing banks
• Bolsheviks and SRs attracted attention of authorities through this practice

1 bank robber’s trial in 1907 - saw Bolsheviks suffer embarrassment of being clearly implicated in criminal activity