Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Causes of 1905 Revolution (Russia)
- Military
- Russian Imperial Army and Navy suffered embarassing
defeats
- Forced to surrender Port Arthur
- Japanese Army defeated Russia in Manchuria
- Battle of Tsushima
- Russian Navy lost 25 out of 35 warships
- Political
- Frequent Jacqueries
- Peasant attacks on Govt. record buildings
- Overcrowding in cities and towns
- Due to rapid industrialisation
- Lack of national assembly and opposition to autocracy
- Growth of political opposition groups
- Lacked organisation
- Wanted different results
- Protest led by Father Gapon to take petition to the Tsar
- Resulted in 200 protesters being shot dead
- Survivors were exiled from St Petersburg
- Bloody Sunday
- 400,000 workers went on strike in February
- Soviets
- Workers councils, set up to organise protests
- St Petersburg Soviet had 400 members
- Represented 96 factories
- Leon Trotsky was a key member
- Railway workers strike
- Paralysed the country
- Social
- There were social injustices
- 80% of the population peasants were living in
poverty
- Rapid Population Expansion
- 98 million (1885) increased to 125 million (1905)
- Became harder for peasants to grow enough food
- Economic
- Emancipation
- More serfs competing for land
- Led to decrease in the size of peasant landholdings
- Harvest failures
- Famines Common
- 1892, 1898, 1901