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16 Cards in this Set
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Who led the march of workers before bloody Sunday? |
Father Gapon, he ran a union |
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What sparked the workers to march? |
The dismissal of 3 workers belonging to father Gapon's union |
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How many workers marched? |
20,000 |
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Was the march peaceful? |
Yes, these workers loved the royal family and carried icons of them. They wanted their little father's help. |
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What did the workers ask for |
Food, a national assembly with working class representation and better working conditions |
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How did the peaceful march become bloody Sunday? |
Cossacks fire at the workers as they approach the winter palace. They kill 130 officially but some speculated that thousands died. |
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What does Nicholas say to workers reps that he meets after bloody Sunday? |
He tells them that they are misguided and should return to work. |
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How does the 1905 revolution start |
Illegal unions form, strikes start and political unrest begins |
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Who is assassinated |
Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich - Nicholas' uncle and governor general of Moscow |
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What unions and soviets form |
The All Russian Union of Railway Workers is formed and elected factory workers form soviets to coordinate strikes. Later, a peasants' union is formed after they start to revolt. |
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Who mutinies and what is the result |
Sailors aboard the ship Potemkin mutiny and sail to Odessa. Authorities kill 2000 trying to disperse the sympathetic crowd who had formed. |
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What strike turns into a general strike? |
A printers' strike in Moscow in September = spread to st Petersburg = general strike by October |
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Liberal opposition |
Civil rights; universal suffrage; national assembly; constitutional monarchy; they form professional unions in a larger union of unions; supported by universities. |
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National minority groups |
Jewish people wanted equal rights; poles/finns/Latvians wanted independence; ukranains hold a strike in Odessa in June; Muslim union congress set up demanding regional autonomy; peasant union of volokolamsk creates an independent republic which lasts until July 1906; racist black hundreds attack minorities with beatings hangings etc |
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Social revolutionaries |
Wanted the end of tsardom; assassinations; supported all Russian Union of peasants; work in St Petersburg soviet but disagree w social Democrats |
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Social Democrats |
Workers revolution to get rid of Tsar; encouraged formation of workers' soviets; encouraged workers to withhold taxes; support strikes and general strikes; mensheviks dominate st Petersburg soviet chaired by Leon Trotsky |
