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Tsarist rule in Russia, 1905-14 - Coggle Diagram
- Tsarist rule in Russia, 1905-14
REASONS FOR DISCONTENT
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Peasants
85% of the Russian population were peasants and as the population increased they needed more land but many had no way of buying it.
famine in bite 1890s and 1901 had killed thousands and the many were shocked by how badly the famines had been handled
Industrial Workers
Russia was behind everyone industrially and so there was only a small number of workers but industry was growing fast, concentrated in huge factories in the cities
conditions were dangerous + working hours long + low pay + rules were strictly enforced
housing shortages led to overcrowded dirty living with diseases spreading rapidly
Middle Class
most were liberals and wanted change but were frightened of the radical revolutionary groups. they believed the best way to prevent a revolution was to replace the tsarist regime with a constitution that granted rights to everyone under a fair legal system
Non - Russians
only 44% of the population were Russian by nationality and so some some nationalities wanted independence because the empire put Russians first and put pressure on others to speak and adopt Russian culture
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NICHOLAS AND THE DUMAS
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The First Duma
27th April to 8th July 1906, the left wing-revolutionaries did not take part and the main demand was land reform but this was too radical for the tsar and he dissolved it
The Second Duma
February - June 1907 but Stolypin the new prime minister dissolved it as to was thought to be an even bigger threat
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Stolypin's Land Reforms
Wanted to break up the communes and individual peasants set up private farms each farmer would profit from its crops and he hoped new farmers would use modern farming methods he hoped that if farmers became successful they would stop rioting
LENA GOLDFIELD STRIKES
In 1912 a year after Stolypins assassination there was a massacre strikes at the Lena goldfields in Siberia
working conditions for gold miners have been terrible and so one day a mining gang protested, and it spread through the goldfields the event turned into a mass protest and between 200 and 500 workers were killed
kick started a storm of protest throughout Russia there were nearly 2000 strikes it showed that none of the reasons for discontent had gone away