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1905 revolution

Intro

Para 1

There were some causes of the 1905 Russian revolution that had been problems for a very long time. Russia had a long history of opposition to tsarism and autocracy, beginning with the Decembrist uprising of 1825.

* The Military was a major factor that contributed to the 1905 revolution. They were poorly managed. The officers received their position by being of the nobility class, not by proving themselves as good military minds. The conditions and facilities that the soldiers used and had to live in were terrible.

* Okhrana

* Dumas

Para 2

* Tsarism - Autocracy ------ the strengths of the Tsar's government were those usually found in an autocratic regime - Church, army, a repressive secret police and the unthinking love of the peasantry.

* The weaknesses of the government lay in its incompetence, in the huge size and economic poverty of Russia, and in the pressures coming from a modernising world - i.e., from a middle class which had already in 1905 forced the Tsar to set up a parliament (the Duma), and from extreme political groups which wanted even more radical changes.

Tsar's Mistakes

* Bureaucracy - zemstva

* Classes in society

* Industrial Growth

* Scandals involving the autocracy

Para 3

* Living conditions, - The mass of people were serfs. Serfs were 'slaves'. They worked on the estates of the nobles. They could be punished