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04 BACKGROUND TO THE SOVIET REVOLUTION
1 TSARIST RUSSIA
the Russian Empire had around 150 million inhabitants
The economy, based on agriculture, was slowly beginning to develop industrially
Russia was an autocratic monarchy, in which the tsar exercised his power
The Marxist-inspired Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party (RSDWP)
Mensheviks
Bolsheviks
2 FROM THE REVOLUTION OF 1905 TO THE GREAT WAR
This tension led to the Russo-Japanese War (1904–1905), in which Russia was defeated
sarism tried to take power through a revolution
The massacre of men, known as Bloody Sunday
the first Soviet was formed in St. Petersburg
they pressurised the tsar into implementing some reforms
the creation of the Duma or National Legislative Assembly
the start of an agrarian reform
the establishment of limited individual and citizens’ liberties.
THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE IN 1914
The Trans-Siberian Railroad, inaugurated in 1904,
