The Failure Of The Bloody Sunday In Russia In 1905

Bloody Sunday triggered a reaction that speeded up the tempo of psychological change in the country. It had strengthened faith in possibility of change and encouraged a greater spirit in the conception of what could be changed. The discontent and anger among people had accumulated, resulting a big wave of strikes among the workers of all occupations. The labor strikes promoted the liberation of movement to greater boldness against the government. The movement challenged the officials and proved that the government had weaknesses. It triggered peasants to take a strong stand against landlords. In 1905 Russian government suffered decline of in fear and lost respect to its authority. The Russian working class was no longer an unorganized mass, restive but irresolute, in some ways hostile to all the ideas of political change. Rather, it became an organized group that moved slowly in the direction of the liberation movement. The educated class acted as the most unspoken and, apparently, the most active. The intelligentsia did not believe in reforms of industrialists. In their view, Russia imperatively needed political reforms. In January of 1905 almost every institution of higher learning went on strike. As a precautionary measures the officials closed those institutions. For the rest of 1905 they remained closed and almost totally …show more content…
To regain public confidence he suggested the Tsar to address few simple and direct words to St. Petersburg workers, assuring them that he had their best interests at his heart. In Kokovstsev view, it would serve its purpose and that the majority workers did not want to strike, on the contrary revolutionaries misled them into act, and they would welcome any sign of understanding and assurance that the tsar might give