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BACKGROUND TO THE SOVIET REVOLUTION
TSARIST RUSSIA
Russian Empire 150 million inhabitants
autocratic monarchy
sovereign backed by
Orthodox Church
corrupt bureaucracy
feudal aristocracy
political opposition to tsarism grew
Marxist-inspired
Russian Social-Democratic Workers' Party (RSDWP)
felt working class should revelt
eliminate injustice
eliminate inequality
1903 RSDWP separeted
Bolsheviks
Vladimir Lenin
seizure of power
Mensheviks
Julius Martov
more moderate
alliance reformist liberalism
FROM THE REVOLUTION OF 1905 TO THE GREAT WAR
Russo-Japanese War
competed for control
Korea
Manchuria
1904-1905
Russia defeated
weakness of the tsarism
many strikes
Bloody Sunday
opposit to tsar revolution
ruthless repression
people begged for improved living contitions
more that thousand victims
women
children
men
popular outrage
finale rupture between people, tsar
Soviet
peasants
soldiers
workers
1905
pressurised tsar reforms
reforms
agrarian reform
distribution of lands
social base support liberal regime
project canceled
assassination of promoter
Prime Minister Pyotr Stolypin 1911
limited individual and citizens' liberties
creation of Duma
National Legislative Assembly
theory equivalent of parliament
controlled by tsar
revolutionaries didn't succeed
1915
tsar took control of army
collapse of front
breakdown of civil power
demoralisation of army
genereted conditions for new revolutionary outburst
Trans-Siberian Railroad
Russia immense territory
inagurated in 1904
connect Russian Empire
