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