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Russia 1894-1921: 1905 Revolution
- Opponents of the Tsar
- Social Revolutionaries
- The Social Revolutionaries believed that Russia should belong to the peasants
- The Social Revolutionaries were led by Victor Chernov
- The Social Revolutionaries wanted a revolution
- The Liberals
- The Liberals Wanted the Tsar to share his power with an elected Government
- The Liberals did NOT want a revolution
- The Social Democratic Party
- The Social Democratic Party believed in the ideas of Karl Marx
- These 'ideas' were a way to run a Government were every man is equal
- This is called Communism
- The Social Democrat Party split into two
- Mensheviks
- The Mensheviks believed that a revolution must happen gradually and that they must have the support of the people
- The Mensheviks wanted a democracy
- Bolsheviks
- The Bolsheviks believed that a revolution could only happen through force
- The Bolsheviks were led by Lenin
- Lenin was born as Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov at Simbirsk in a town called Volga in 1870
- Lenin was part of a Middle Class family
- The Bolsheviks wanted one person to rule
- The Ideas of Karl Marx
- Karl Marx was a German 'thinker'
- He made a form of Government that would be fair and create a better world
- He believed his ideas would only take hold in an industrialised country
- He said 'Society is run by the rich'
- He believed that they had to be removed for his society to work
- This required TWO revolutions
- The first would be for the lower and middle classes to remove the upper class
- Then the lower class would remove the middle class
- Russian People
- Supporters
- Nobles
- The Tsar was their source of wealth
- Army
- The Tsar hand picked officers, who were often Nobles
- Peasants
- Believed the Tsar was chosen by God
- Okrana
- 'The Secret Police'
- They spied for the Tsar and stopped any revolutionary attempts
- The Church
- The Tsar was their source of wealth
- They made the peasants believe that the Tsar was chosen by God
- Opposition
- Middles Classes
- They wanted the Tsar to share his power so that they could have a say in the Government
- Factory Workers
- They wanted the Tsar to give them less working hours, higher pay and better living conditions
- Revolutionaries
- They wanted to take all of the Tsar's power
- The Students
- They were educated with new ideas of democracy
- They believed that Russia should work like this too
- Bloody Sunday
- The workers were in horrible conditions
- They had low pay, high working hours and terrible living conditions
- A priest, Father Gapon, arranged with the workers that they would march up to the Winter Palace and ask for improvements to pay, working hours and living conditions
- Father Gapon sends a letter informing the Tsar of this march the day before
- But the Tsar was not in the Winter Palace as he had returned home as his son was bleeding
- His son had a disease that stopped his blood from clotting
- The workers came in a peaceful march but the Tsars men protecting the Winter Palace didn't know these people would be here
- The soldiers opened fire on the crowd and killed between 100-1000 people
- This started the 1905 revolution
- 1905 Revolution
- Workers went on strike
- Mutiny on the Potemik Battleship
- Towns 'broke off' of Russia and formed small Governments called 'Soviets'
- Minorities demanded 'freedom' from Russia
- Middle Class demanded a Duma
- Peasants burned down the houses of the landowners who they believed had 'stolen their land'
- Octobe Manifesto
- This maifesto gave the people what they wanted
- The peasants no longer had to pay redemption payments
- The workers were given right to free speech and assosiation
- The Middle Class got a Duma
- The Tsar was assissted by his advisors for the October Manifesto
- Stolypin's Reforms
- Stolypin was the Prime Minister of the third Duma
- He supported the Tsar
- He invented Kosaks
- Kosaks were a richer class of peasant
- The idea was to make the peasants support the Tsar again
- He built up industry
- This was to make the Middle Class support the Tsar
- He severly punished anyone who opposed the Tsar
- This made the working class hate the Tsar
- This was nicknamed Stolypin's Necktie
- The Dumas
- The first Duma was closed because they asked for too much
- The second Duma was closed because it was filled with revolutionaries
- The third Duma's Prime Minister wa Stolypin, who supported the Tsar
- This Duma closed when Stolypin was assassinated
- Okrana knew about the assassination, but let it happen as the Tsar thought Stolypin was getting too smart