MOVEMENTS AOS1 RUSSIA Flashcards
Workers’ protests
- Lena goldfields masscare - police shot 200-250 striking miners
- July Days involved half a million workers and sailors
“the workers movement, which had been dormant since 1906, had revived with a vengeance in april 1912 (lena massacre)’ - figes
Peasant Uprisings
- 90 Million peasants produced half of Russia’s income
- 1905 - all russian unit of peasants formed
- early 1917 peasants ransacked 2,000 estates and seized land
“was certain to respone to urban disorders with a revolution of his own” (the people) -pipes
Mutinies
-1905 - Potemkin Mutiny
-27th feb - Petrograd soldiers refuse to fire on crowd
“the government lost control of the armed forces (in oct)” - pipes
SRS
- Lead by Chernov and later kerensky
- Policies included land reform, agarian socialisim and democracy
- 1906, boycotted first duma elections
“had three main planks: anti-capitalism, terrorisim and socialisim of land” - pipes
Bolsheviks
- 1902, “what is to be done” published
- split from mensheviks 1903, and offically in 1921
“remarkable… that is the bolsheviks’ october coup actually came off” -fitzpartick
Mensheviks
- lead by Julius maurtov and George Plekhanov
- started as fraction of SD
- wanted a coalition
“perceived themselves as orthodox marxists” vladimir brovkin
Octobrists
- served in prov gov
- wanted universal sufferage
- wanted const monarchy with more powerful tsar
“prepated to work for reform only within the existing order to strengthen it” figes
Kadets
- had 100,000 members
- made up of 60% nobles
- 1915 - progressive bloc in duma lead by Miliukov
“both afraid and contemptuous of the masses” -figes
Kadets
- had 100,000 members
- made up of 60% nobles
- 1915 - progressive bloc in duma lead by Miliukov
“both afraid and contemptuous of the masses” -figes
