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10 Marker - 1905 Revolution Flashcards

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What are the main Factors (groups) of the 1905 revolution

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  • alienated intelligentsia
  • revolutionaries
  • national minorities
  • peasants
  • workers
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what are the main factors (problems) of the 1905 revolution

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  • Tsarist regime
  • Wittes economic policy
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what are the catalyst events of the revolution

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  • Russo - Japanese war
  • Bloody Sunday
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When did the Russo-Japanese war start

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  • 1904
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what were the main reasons for the Russo Japanese war of 1904

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  • Russian expansion into China - Manchuria (400,000 Sqr Miles 1858-60)
  • curb British expansion - allied to Japan
  • wanted warm water port (Arthur) - better than Vladivostok
  • wanted to expand into Korea - Japanese wanted
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Why did Russia want to go to war

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  • economic and political interests
  • Gentry believed it would have tided over the revolution back home
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Why did Japan want to go to war

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wanted to succeed in gaining its territorial gains in China and Korea - excluded from China - economic / strategic move

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Main battles of RJW

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  • Mukden Feb 1905 = Russian Defeat
  • Tsushima May 1905 = whole Russian fleet destroyed
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who won the RJW

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Japan

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Where was the RJW treaty signed

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Treaty of Portsmouth US - 1905

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What was the outcome of the treaty P

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  • Japan get Port Arthur / southern Manchuria
  • Korea recognised to be within Japanese influence
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What was the Significance of the Russo - Japanese war

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  • first time east defeated west
  • humiliating
  • spent loads of fuel - food and resources on a failed venture
  • huge upsurge of discontent in the Empire
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What impact did the RJW have on Russia

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  • divided Nicholas from his people - didn’t divert from revolution
  • ST. p 7,500 MILES FROM WAR ZONE
  • SRs committed acts of terror - SDs triggered strikes - 28th June 1904 - Plehve assassinated - Minister for the interior
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who replaced Plehve when he was assassinated

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Mirsky

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what mistake did Mirsky make

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promised reform - people expect it - Gov not willing to give it.

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When was Bloody Sunday

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9th Jan 1905

17
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Who was the main influence / leader of the demonstration

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Father Gapon

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Who was Father Gapon

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  • Russian Orthodox priest
  • Est. assembly of Russian factory and Plant workers of St Petersburg
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As an individual was Father Gapon significant

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  • no, some even believed he was an Okhrana double agent
  • genuine sympathy for workers
  • no real political motivation - not an advocate for revolution
  • true significance = response to event
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What motivated Bloody Sunday / demands

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  • worker led
  • unemployment - better working conditions - improved work rate - abolition of overtime - better paid unskilled work- and recognition of worker grievances (through effective forms of consultation)
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Summary of events BS

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  • 20,000 marchers - families
  • carry icons of Tsarism
  • sang hymns
  • armed troops + Cossacks
  • columns of protestors fired upon
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Socialist perspective of Bloody Sunday

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  • '’reddening the snow with their blood’’
  • workers begged to see their Tsar whom they loved - father
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Police perspective of Bloody Sunday

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  • workers gathered at separate strategic locations
  • 7,000 advanced despite being told to leave by police
  • around 31 dead - 10 wounded
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What was the significance of Bloody Sunday

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  • impression of the Tsar and his response to peaceful protest - tremendous
  • ministers feared economic impact - loans in France and Germany being negotiated at the time
  • Tsar denounced as a traitor - many lost the love they had for the Tsarist system
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Reaction of Bloody Sunday (Nicholas)

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  • met factory owners deemed ‘sensible’
  • delegation of owners was regarded distastefully amongst radicals - served only to increase unpopularity
  • had very little understanding of events - ‘forgave them’ in a sermon
  • Within weeks his uncle Sergei was assassinated
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Out of RJW and BS what is more significant / why?

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BS more important - display of affection for Tsar during war - need to negotiate rather than fight
- post BS - workers overly dissatisfied with the Tsar + know that peaceful protest is futile - must resort to strike action which culminated into revolution itself - the war was the cause for BS - BS was the cause for the revolution
- RJW = angered radicals
- BS = angered general population - national tragedy

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