Blood Sunday Flashcards
1
Q
To show support to Tsar
A
Portrait of Tsar and banner ‘soldiers do not shoot the people’
No red flags
2
Q
Figes quote about feelings to Tsar
A
Popular myth of a Good Tsar…destroyed
3
Q
When was Sunday
A
9th Jan 1905
4
Q
Striking workers
A
January=400,000 striking workers
However socialist parties to disorganised to do anything meaningful
5
Q
Internal Min killed
A
Plehve killed by bomb and people were happy in Warsaw
6
Q
Who replaced Plehve and why
A
Prince Mirsky as he was liberal
7
Q
Nich is refused ….. and meant ……
A
Any sought of parliamentary body - last opportunity to avoid revolution
Liberals radicalised and drove them away
8
Q
Peasants reaction to Bloody Sunday
A
3,000 manors burnt
