By the early 20th century, the Russian state stood among the five largest industrial nations in the world.However, within the powers of all walks of life dissatisfaction reigned.Some of the nobles and intellectuals advocated the introduction of a constitution, the peasants want land landowners.Workers also seek to improve working conditions and raise wages.Bowl discontent overflowed unsuccessful war with Japan.
1905 revolution in Russia began on 9 January.The Winter Palace came about one hundred and forty thousand people under the leader of the priest Gapon.They marched with portraits of the king, with icons.Among them were old people, children, women.
Nicholas II ordered to disperse the demonstration.Sam King left St. Petersburg.Detachments of troops were already on the streets.
demonstrators greeted volleys of weapons.As a result, in the "Bloody Sunday", killing more than a thousand people, injured about five thousand.
These bloody events immediately stirred up the whole country.They began the strike, the workers began to erect barricades.
Revolution 1905-1907.It developed rapidly.The strike in Ivanovo-Voznesensk was attended by about sixty thousand workers.In 1905, the first of May, there were mass demonstrations in many cities, peasant uprisings in many counties.Suddenly, a rebellion broke out in the navy.Battleship "Potemkin" approached, accompanied by the destroyer №267 to Odessa on 15 June.
summer of 1905 was formed the Peasant Union.This first major company led by the Socialist-Revolutionaries and the liberals.By the fall of the uprising spread throughout the country.The first Russian revolution of 1905, there are about five million people.To the general strike of the workers, started on 15 October and joined the middle strata - students, doctors and employees.
By November Peasant Union has teamed up with the working class.Massive unrest took place in the army and navy.The biggest revolt was the performance of the sailors on the cruiser "Ochakov", which was led by Lieutenant Schmidt.
After the events of October Lenin's party, with the support of the Soviets of People's Deputies organizes training for mass armed insurrection.It was assumed that the speech will start operating Petersburg.But the St. Petersburg Mensheviks did not act very decisively.This also benefited the Russian government.In early December 1905 was arrested most of the deputies of the capital.The Petrograd strikers were left without leadership.
In these circumstances, the revolution of 1905-1907.peaked.Moscow organizations have taken the lead of the general uprising.It was assumed that the strike on December 7 will grow into a large-scale armed uprising.
At noon on December 7 locomotive hooted and factory whistles Moscow.Four companies have stopped work.The city held meetings and formed military squads.The government tried to crush the rebellion with the help of the troops of the Moscow garrison soldiers but refused to speak out against the workers.Soldiers were disarmed and locked up in the barracks.
In December, following the example of the Moscow uprising broke out in Rostov, the cities of Transcaucasia, the Baltic States, Siberia, in Nizhny Novgorod, Ufa, Perm.
However, leaders of the uprising in Moscow, were arrested.By order of the king arrived from St. Petersburg Semenov regiment.Barricades arranged workers were killed in the shortest possible time.December 19 by order of the Moscow Council was discontinued armed struggle.All returned to their jobs.
Next, 1906, participated in the strike of more than a million workers.Uprisings quickly suppressed by the government.
King dissolve the State Duma in July 1906.At the same time there are disturbances in Kronstadt, Revel, Sveaborg.In June, following 1907, the year the king disperse a second, even more opposition than the first, the State Duma.There was also changed and the electoral law.
Revolution 1905-1907.It characterized by contemporaries as a bourgeois-democratic actions.The main purpose of this mass uprising was to destroy the monarchy and landlordism.
Revolution 1905-1907.It formed the background to the armed uprising in 1917.
