Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Russia 1894 - 1917 Long-term Causes
of the Russian Revolution
- Proletariat
- Russia was industrialising,
but workers were poor and
oppressed
- Bloody Sunday 1905
- Cossacks attacked
the strikers
- Proletariat went on a
peaceful strike to request
help from the Tsar
- Disunity
- Multiple languages,
nationalities and religions
in the country
- Bourgeois
- Representative of the new middle
classes - called Kadets
- Wanted Russia to have a
constitution like England
- 1905 revolution led Tsar to
create a Duma (parliament),
did not have any real power
- Autocrat
- The running of the Russian
government, by Tsar Nicholas II alone,
was too much
- Size
- Russia was too big a
territory to rule
- 1913
- The empire was 4,000 miles
long
- 125 million people
- Development
- Underdeveloped
- Few roads and limited
industrialisation
- Majority of the population
were peasants
- Revolutionaries
- Split into various groups: Social
Revolutionaries, Mensheviks,
Bolsheviks
- Weak
- Militarily weak
- Lost the
Russo-Japanese
War in 1904