Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Why did the Tsar Survive the 1905
Revolution?
- Redemption Payments
- Redemption
payments cancelled
in Nov 1905
- Partly solved issue that Tsar
wasn't providing for the peasants
- Money retained could be
used in a more practical way
- E.g. landholdings, food
- Ended violent attacks
('jacqueries')
- Burden lifted
- Black Hundreds
- Govt sponsored 'Union
of Russian People'
- Attracted working class right
wing men
- Attacked liberals, socialists and Jews
- Over 3000 killed 1905-6
- Helped Tsar survive as it
reinstated his authority
- Implemented forced
loyalty from the public
- Forced to kiss Tsar's
photo and sing National
Anthem
- End of the
Russo-Japanese War
- Treaty of
Portsmouth
ended war
- Russia forced to
give up Port Arthur
and the southern part
of Saikhalin to Japan
- After war, troops returned to cities
to restore order
- Killed over 1000 in general strike
- Food Supplies no
longer bypassing cities
- Less anger - standards
somewhat returning
- Army support and the Okhrana
- Army remained loyal to the Tsar
- Crushed riots, uprisings
- Exiled/Executed
- Okhrana used to
repress/eradicate remaining
political opponents
- Mass arrests
- By 1917, most Bolsheviks were
in exile and the SRs had
collapsed
- Problems with the Revolutionary Movement
- Army used as a weapon to
stifle uprising
- Placed restrictions on public
- No united aim
- Different groups
wanted different things
- SRs - Peasant
ownership of land
- SDs - Removal of
the Tsar
- Caused in-fighting
- Lack of central
co-ordination
- October Manifesto
- Satisfied majority of
the population
- Enabled Tsar to regain
control of Russia
- Provided public with
what they wanted
- Revolution was unneeded
- Dumas
- More democratic
- Tsar stepping down from
role of complete power
- Idea of constitutionary
monarchy
- Seen in other countries
- Russia = developing
- Largest political reform
- Universal franchise
- People given voice
- Never seen before
- Revolutionaries lost
support and were
isolated