reasons for 1905 revolution Flashcards
deafeat in the russo-japanese war knowledge
in October 1904, The Russian Baltic fleet was sent to the Pacific.
on May 27th 1905, the Battle of Tsushima took place where the Russian Baltic Fleet sailed almost halfway around the world only to lose 25 out of its 35 warships.
in June 1905, sailors mutinied on the battleship Potemkin.
deafeat in the russo-japanese war analysis
the war was a humiliating defeat which turned public opinion against the incompetent Tsar.
deafeat in the russo-japanese war analysis plus
when the Tsar announced that Russia was going to war in 1905, his popularity soared which showed he was still strong with influence over the Russian people and that it wasn’t his decision to go to war that led to the 1905 Revolution.
bloody sunday knowledge
The workers carried a petition that was meant to inform the Tsar about their terrible living and working conditions and how difficult their lives were in 1905.
The Cossack Guards at the Winter Palace, fearing trouble, opened fire on the crowd, killing a reported 96 people and injuring over 300.
There were men, women and children in the crowd and many were killed by the Tsar’s guards.
bloody sunday analysis
it shattered the image of the ‘Little Father’ as peasants and workers felt betrayed by the Tsar and a series of strikes, protests and riots spread throughout the industrial cities in the aftermath of Bloody Sunday.
bloody sunday analysis plus
it showed that the march was not anti-Tsarist as the marchers were wanting to make the Tsar aware of how bad their lives were, they still clearly supported his right to rule over them.
peasant discontent knowledge
They had almost no literacy or ways to change their own lives.
Their lives were strictly controlled by Land Captains and Town Elders. They could be arrested, sentenced and fined with no trial for a wide range of crimes.
When peasants could not pay their taxes, it was taken by nobles in grain and other food.
peasant discontent analysis
peasants were angered at having to give away the food that they needed to survive as taxes.
peasant discontent analysis plus
because the anger that many peasants had was directed towards the Land Captains and nobles, not the Tsar, whom they still respected and loved.
worker discontent knowledge
There was no privacy in the communal barracks provided for factory workers with around 1000 people living in a space meant for half of that.
Urban workers in Russia worked 12 hour days for less than 205 rubles a year.
Workers began to resent the “Little father” as they lived awful lives in terrible conditions and he did nothing to improve this.
worker discontent analysis
strikes increased massively in this year as they spread throughout Russia, becoming so widespread that they were turned into a national revolution.
worker discontent analysis plus
worker strikes were not always anti-Tsarist, they sometimes went on strike just for economic reasons. This meant that they weren’t striking against the person who was really at fault for the terrible factory and living conditions across the country, so it was more like they were demanding change from the middlemen of this operation, rather than the one in control.
political discontent knowledge
National minorities hated the Tsar’s policy of ‘Russification’ as they felt it denied them their own culture, language and freedoms of expression.
University students demanded for the autocracy to be replaced with a democracy as these ideas spread amongst universities.
Students rioted, protested and even took out political assassinations against Tsarist government officials.
political discontent analysis
the people that would eventually become the next generation of Russia, taking up the biggest, most successful jobs were turning against the government which meant they had to be listened to as ignoring them would just cause more outcry for change.
political discontent analysis plus
each national minority fought for their own rights and did not unite together against the Tsar which meant they limited the amount of influence and attention they would have gained if they worked with each other.
