AND why did the event "Bloody Sunday" make the Russian's thought of czar as their "Little Father? why did this event change their attitude?????
Can someone list the series of events leading to unrest in Russia at the turn of the century?oper
Should I blather and contribute my word vomit to the vortex or rely on the well written text of another? A few words of my own then I will turn you on one of the better sites for insightful info.
Much as GEO W Bush 'was' or 'is' thought of as 'the little Father,' the one person who would stand up against the Big Wigs %26amp; Power People, the Industrialist and the Military and was truly concerned with the plight of the common ordinary masses of citizens, so it was with Czar Nicholas. In an era before the internet in a nation where even the telephone %26amp; telegraph were out of the reach of the masses, the peasents felt they had a time honored right o gather outside the gates of The Winter Palace and petition the Czar to listen to their grievances.
They were met with bullets. Police %26amp; Cossacks fired upon the workers and killed more than a hundred injuring countless more of them. This incident soured the peasents who felt that the police had acted on the orders of the Czar. Even if the Czar did not order the massacre, rumors %26amp; words were enough to condemn him and Nicholas lacked the ability to heal the breech between himslef, his family an the nation.
(A smart dictator would have hung the chief of police and a few others to regain the people's trust )
Here is Spartaus a great site..
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RUS...
"'At the beginning of the 20th century the Russian industrial employee worked on average an 11 hour day (10 hours on Saturday). Conditions in the factories were extremely harsh and little concern was shown for the workers' health and safety. Attempts by workers to form trade unions were resisted by the factory owners and in 1903, a priest, Father Georgi Gapon, formed the Assembly of Russian Workers. Within a year it had over 9,000 members.
1904 was a particularly bad year for Russian workers. Prices of essential goods rose so quickly that real wages declined by 20 per cent. When four members of the Assembly of Russian Workers were dismissed at the Putilov Iron Works, Gapon called for industrial action. Over the next few days over 110,000 workers in St. Petersburg went out on strike.
In an attempt to settle the dispute, Georgi Gapon decided to make a personal appeal to Nicholas II. He drew up a petition outlining the workers' sufferings and demands. This included calling for a reduction in the working day to eight hours, an increase in wages, an improvement in working conditions and an end to the Russo-Japanese War.
When the procession of workers reached the Winter Palace it was attacked by the police and the Cossacks. Over 100 workers were killed and some 300 wounded. The incident, known as Bloody Sunday, started a series of events that became known as the 1905 Revolution. Strikes took place all over the country and the universities closed down when the whole student body complained about the lack of civil liberties by staging a walkout. Lawyers, doctor, engineers, and other middle-class workers established the Union of Unions and demanded a constituent assembly.
In June, 1905, sailors on the Potemkin battleship, protested against the serving of rotten meat. The captain ordered that the ringleaders to be shot. The firing-squad refused to carry out the order and joined with the rest of the crew in throwing the officers overboard. The Potemkin Mutiny spread to other units in the army and navy.
Industrial workers all over Russia went on strike and in October, 1905, the railwaymen went on strike which paralyzed the whole Russian railway network. Later that month, Leon Trotsky and other Mensheviks established the St. Petersburg Soviet. Over the next few weeks over 50 of these soviets were formed all over Russia.
Sergi Witte, the new Chief Minister, advised Nicholas II to make concessions. He eventually agreed and published the October Manifesto. This granted freedom of conscience, speech, meeting and association. He also promised that in future people would not be imprisoned without trial. Finally he announced that no law would become operative without the approval of a new organization called the Duma.
As this was only a consultative body, many Russians felt that this reform did not go far enough. Leon Trotsky and other revolutionaries denounced the plan. In December, 1905, Trotsky and the rest of the executive committee of the St. Petersburg Soviet were arrested.
The first meeting of the Duma took place in May 1906. Several changes in the composition of the Duma had been changed since the publication of the October Manifesto. Tsar Nicholas II had also created a State Council, an upper chamber, of which he would nominate half its members. He also retained for himself the right to declare war, to control the Orthodox Church and to dissolve the Duma. The Tsar also had the power to appoint and dismiss ministers.
At their first meeting, members of the Duma put forward a series of demands including the release of political prisoners, trade union rights and land reform. Nicholas II rejected all these proposals and dissolved the Duma.
In April, 1906, Nicholas II forced Sergi Witte to resign and replaced him with the more conservative Peter Stolypin. Stolypin attempt to provide a balance between the introduction of much needed land reforms and the suppression of the radicals. The next Duma convened in February, 1907. This time it lasted three months before the Tsar closed it down""
Peace............pppffftttzzz (ah)
Can someone list the series of events leading to unrest in Russia at the turn of the century?hollywood theater opera theater
stalin! does that anwser your question.
