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BACKGROUND TO THE SOVIET REVOLUTION
tsarist Russia
Russian Empire
150 million inhabitants
economy
agriculture
autocratic monarchy
tsar all power
absolute ruler
orthodox church
end of the 19th century
Marxist-inspired Russian Social-Democratic Worker's Party
party which
working class should carry out
a revolution to eliminate
injustice
inequality
1903
RSDWP
divided in 2 groups
Bolsheviks
radical
Vladimir Lenon
Mensheviks
moderates
Julius Martov
From the revolution of 1905 to the great war
Russia and Japanese competed
control of
Korea
Manchuria
Russo-Japanese War
Japan won
tsarist regime was revealed
forces opposing tsarism
tried to take power
revolution
people begged the tsar
improved living conditions
tsarist army repressed
thousand of demonstrations
Winter Palace
St petersburg
Bloody Sunday
rupture between
tsar
people
Soviets was formed
1905
revolutionaries did not succeed taking power
tsar some reforms
start of an agrarian reform
establishment of limited individual and citizen's liberties
creation of National Legislative Assembly
Summer of 1914
WWI began
Nicholas II took direct control
without preventing the collapse
increasingly poor living conditions
serious economic
social situations
Trans Siberian Railroad
connect
European part
most remote regions of
Russian Empire
