Bloody Sunday And The 1905 Revolution

Question 1

Example of an organisation created under ‘police socialism’

Answer 1

Assembly of Russian Factory Workers

Question 2

Who led the Assembly of Russian Factory Workers

Answer 2

Father Gapon

Question 3

Which workers went on strike on 3rd January 1905

Answer 3

The workers at the Putilov Iron Works

Question 4

What day did Father Gapon lead a demonstration? How many people?

Answer 4

9th January 1905

150,000 workers and their families (not looking to overthrow anyone)

Question 5

Why did Father Gapon lead a demonstration? Why did people go?

Answer 5

To present a petition to the Tsar at his Winter Palace

People believed the Tsar genuinely didn’t know their struggles and so wanted to inform him (‘little father’)

Question 6

How many troops had the Tsar left to keep control in the city

Answer 6

12,000

Question 7

How did the demonstrators show their support for the Tsar

Answer 7

Carried icons of the Tsar to show their loyalty to him

Question 8

What happened as the demonstrators approached the Winter Palace

Answer 8

Soldiers opened fire

Question 9

How many people died

Answer 9

Tsar said 76

Historians estimate around 1000

Question 10

What was this massacre of peaceful protestors called

Answer 10

Bloody Sunday

Question 11

What did Bloody Sunday cause

Answer 11

A wave of violence and unrest to sweep across the country (1905 revolution)

Question 12

What were the long term causes behind the 1905 revolution

Answer 12

Unwilling to reduce autocratic power (zemstva not given much influence)
Failure to improve lives of peasants in emancipation (Years of the Red Cockerel)

Question 13

Socio economic causes of the 1905 revolution

Answer 13

Poor living conditions for the urban workers (densely populated)
Helped radical groups to rise in popularity

Question 14

How many strikes were there in 1904

Answer 14

90,000

Question 15

What groups were increasing their influence before the 1905 revolution

Answer 15

Socialist revolutionaries
Social Democrats

Question 16

What were the sparks of the 1905 revolution

Answer 16

Bloody Sunday
The Russo-Japanese war (failings and death) (defeated by a much smaller power) (falling behind powers)

Question 17

How many workers were on strike in St Petersburg in February

Answer 17

400,000

Question 18

By April what had been formed?

Answer 18

Illegal trade unions in all major towns and cities

Brought a wave of strike action

Question 19

In April and May, what were established

Answer 19

The first Soviets

Question 20

What were the aims of Soviets

Answer 20

Aimed to seize control of factories

Question 21

How many people were involved in the general strike in October 1905

Answer 21

2.5 million workers across Russia

Question 22

Which striking occupation caused economic difficulty for Russia in October

Answer 22

The strike of railwaymen

Economy on the brink of collapse

Question 23

In October what was formed in St Petersburg? What did it do?

Answer 23

A Council of Workers’ Deputies

Co-ordinate their strike action

Question 24

What tactics did the peasants use to

Answer 24

Attacked, burned and seized property of the landowning class

Question 25

By April which region was nearly fully in revolt

Answer 25

The Black Earth region

Question 26

In May what did the peasants attempt to set up in Moscow

Answer 26

All Russian Peasant Union

Question 27

In August what did the peasants set up? Who was it heavily influenced by?

Answer 27

A more organised Peasants’ Union Influenced heavily by the Socialist Revolutionaries

Question 28

In which Polish cities did strikes break out in

Answer 28

Warsaw Lodz

Question 29

Where did the general strike of October spread to? What did this result in?

Answer 29

Finland Resulted in greater autonomy being granted to the Finns

Question 30

In Estonia what was set up

Answer 30

An All-Estonian Congress

Question 31

How many representative were on the All-Estonian Congress? What did they demand?

Answer 31

800 representatives Acceptance of the Estonian language and greater autonomy

Question 32

How many officials in Latvia demanded greater powers of self-government

Answer 32

1,000

Question 33

What did Jews set up in February

Answer 33

Formed the Union for the Attainment of Equal Rights for Jews

Question 34

What was demanded in the Ukrainian capital

Answer 34

A Ukrainian assembly

Question 35

In May did naval base rose up against officers

Answer 35

Kronstadt naval base

Question 36

In June the sailors of which battleship mutinied

Answer 36

Potemkin

Question 37

What did the sailors of Potemkin do

Answer 37

Mutinied and seized control of their ship

Question 38

Which group remained largely loyal to the Tsar

Answer 38

The Russian army

Question 39

Which ministers told the Tsar that there needed to be reform

Answer 39

Witte Trepov Grand Duke Nikolayevich Romanov

Question 40

What did the Grand Duke Nikolayevich Romanov threaten to do if there was no reform

Answer 40

Shoot himself

Question 41

What did the 1905 revolution lead to

Answer 41

The October Manifesto