Causes of the 1905 Revolutions?

Question 1

Long Term Economic/Social causes of the 1905 Revolutions?

Answer 1

• Emergence of a new social class (kulaks) –> Wanted more power –> Militancy evident in strikes throughout 1890
• Economic depression: Series of poor harvests (1897-1901) –> Unemployment + Death (1 million people)
• Economic slump in ‘02 + International monetary crisis –> difficulties in negotiating FI + tax income at home declined
• EG was declining (only 1%) in ‘99

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Question 2

Politics

Answer 2

• Leftover impacts of Russification
• National minority and independence
• Increasing opposition: Alienated intelligentsia - students against censorship, middle-classes wanted more pol representation or some form of national assembly
• Revolutionaries SD’s and SR’s gaining support

Question 3

Economics (model)

Answer 3

Undergone strict economic change

Kenan argued along same lines

Russia industrialised too far for its own good (He was a leading politcian in the White House and so might have had poltiical motivation to down play the importance of the Communists in coming to power

Evidence to support Kenan’s perspective: Industrialisation had been taking place under Witte and Moscow textiles,