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04 BACKGROUND TO THE SOVIET REVOLUTION
1 TSARIST RUSSIA
RSDWP split into two group
Mensheviks
Bolsheviks
End of the 19th century
Marxist-inspired Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party
GRIGORI RASPUTIN (1869–1916)
mystic called to the palace to cure the tsar’s eldest son, Alexei
Grigori Rasputin emerged as a symbol of declining Russian autocracy.
Russia was an autocratic monarchy
tsar exercised his power as an absolute ruler
beginning of 20th century
Russia Empire had arond 150 millions inhabitants
2 FROM THE REVOLUTION OF 1905 TO THE GREAT WAR
To coordinate popular protests, workers’ strikes, peasant revolts and military uprising the first Soviet was formed
1905, tsar implemented some reforms:
limited individual and citizens’ liberties.
creation of the Duma or National Legislative Assembly
start of an agrarian reform
massacre of men, women and children, known as Bloody Sunday
The Trans-Siberian Railroad, inaugurated in 1904
This led to Russo-Japanese War
Russian and Japanese competed for Korea and Manchuria control
