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Mind Map by mand_kalsi, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by mand_kalsi
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Who were the main cause of
the 1905 revolution?
- Peasants
- Role in causing the rev.
- Peasant landholdings fell 20%
- Used violence to seize
land from peasants
- Used violence to seize
land from peasants
- Industrialisation put greater
pressure on peasants
- E.g. Low wages,
high taxes
- Resulted in tension,
violence and riots
- Large number (80%)
meant it became a threat
- Large number (80%)
meant it became a threat
- E.g. Low wages,
high taxes
- High redemption taxes
- Forced to sell
grain in
compensation
- Anger - lost more money
- Anger - lost more money
- Forced to sell
grain in
compensation
- Became more politically
organised
- Formed the All Russian
Peasants Union at this
time
- Formed the All Russian
Peasants Union at this
time
- Harvest failures and vodka/salt
taxes exacerbated the situation
- Added 'fuel to the fire'
- Added 'fuel to the fire'
- Peasant landholdings fell 20%
- Counter-arguments
- Not considered to be educated
enough to form a revolution
- Peasant population was too
widely spread
- Too far apart to spread ideas,
congregate or revolutionise
- Contained to mir
- Physically couldn't move
- Physically couldn't move
- Too far apart to spread ideas,
congregate or revolutionise
- Attempts were made
to resolve issues
- e.g. peasant land bank,
reduced tax burden
- e.g. peasant land bank,
reduced tax burden
- ARPU wasn't
solely set up by the
peasants
- Helped by political parties
- Helped by political parties
- Not considered to be educated
enough to form a revolution
- Role in causing the rev.
- Urban Proletariat
- Role in causing the rev.
- General Strikes
- Sept 1905 - railway strike
- Railways =crucial
- Used to put down
unrest in cities
- Enabled the rev. to continue
without fear of prosecution
- Enabled the rev. to continue
without fear of prosecution
- Used to put down
unrest in cities
- Railways =crucial
- Worker's strikes put Russia into shutdown
- Affects the economy
- Affects the economy
- Sept 1905 - railway strike
- More of a threat
- Shared anger
- Concentrated in one area
of the country
- Spreads through cities
- Spreads through cities
- Concentrated in one area
of the country
- Shared anger
- St Petersburg Soviet set
up Oct 1905
- 400 members
- Provided alternative to tsardom
- 400 members
- Bloody Sunday = spark
- Wanted a 'voice' in society
- General Strikes
- Counter- arguments
- Wasn't their intention to uprise
- Wasn't their intention to uprise
- Role in causing the rev.
- Political Parties/ Intelligentsia
- Role in the rev.
- Growth of opposition groups allowed the number
of people who opposed the Tsar to grow
- Provided visible alternative to Tsardom
- Provided visible alternative to Tsardom
- Political groups returned from
exile after Bloody Sunday
- Take advantage of anger
- Take advantage of anger
- Anger repressed prior to 1905 (Okhrana)
- Took more radical views
- Took more radical views
- Intelligentsia long term anger
- Restricted in uni
- Censorship
- Zemstva
- Restricted in uni
- Growth of opposition groups allowed the number
of people who opposed the Tsar to grow
- Counter arguments
- Parties didn't join the
rev. until later
- Cannot be considered the cause
- Lenin wasn't
present during
the rev.
- Cannot be considered the cause
- Required public support in order
to be successful
- Had different aims - couldn't work together
- Social Rev. - Redistribution of land
- Bolsheviks- Violence/ action
- Mensheviks - Revolutionise in time
- Social Rev. - Redistribution of land
- Parties didn't join the
rev. until later
- Role in the rev.
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