The Meaning of Bloody Sunday
Bloody Sunday was an incident of January 22, 1905 where unarmed
demonstrators marched to the Winter Palace present a petition to the
Czar. They were gunned down by Imperial guards in St. Petersburg.
The event was organized by Father Gapon, a paid agent provocateur of
the Okhranka, the Czarist internal secret police.
Father George Gapon founded the Assembly of Russian Factory and Plant
Workers, an authorized and police-sponsored organization designed to
deviate any unrest away from violent revolutionary activities. In
December1904, there was a strike at Putilov plant. By January 8, the
city had no electricity and no newspapers. All public areas were
declared closed. As fears rose at subsequent unrest Father Gapon
organized a peaceful procession to the Winter Palace to deliver a
petition to the Tsar that Sunday. Father Gapon being a provocateur
Troops had already been deployed around the Winter Palace and at other
key points around St. Petersburg. The Tsar had left the city on
January 8 for Tsarskoe Selo, the Tsar's village outside St.
Petersburg.
On Sunday, striking workers and their families gathered at six
different positions around the city; they proceeded towards the Winter
Palace without police interference. The army pickets near the palace
first fired warning shots, and then fired directly into the crowds.
Gapon and his crowd were fired upon near the Narva Gate. Around forty
people surrounding him were killed, but he was uninjured, estimates
still average around 1,000 killed or wounded, both from shots and
trampled during the panic.
Gapon's Assembly was closed down that day, and he ...
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...ical socialists were at least partially satisfied. Only the radical
socialists, radical workers and hungry peasants continued the
revolution.
The revolts of the national minorities were in the borderland areas.
They were too localized in nature. These revolts chiefly aimed at
obtaining local independence and not the overthrow of Tsardom.
The Tsar retained the support of the bureaucracy, the major part of
the army and the nobility. Thus the Tsar was able to suppress the
strikes and the revolts after the division had appeared among the
opposition forces.
In short, the opposition forces, divided, unprepared to seize power,
unable to represent the wishes of the peasants and the workers, failed
to overthrow the decadent and demoralized dynasty which retained the
support of the nobles, the bureaucrats and the army.
rising, from an average of 50, to 160 by 1750 and to 288 by 1815.
The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor is a day that will remain infamous in the history of America. Although people know about the attack and remember it, they might not know as in-depth as Walter Lord narrates in his book Day of Infamy. Lord’s Day of Infamy is a vivid recounting of the events that occurred on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Lord articulates the story of Pearl Harbor, not only the actual bombing but also the planning involved on behalf of the Japanese and the aftermath associated with the bombing. Day of Infamy narrates all of the events in Pearl Harbor in a very concise 200 pages and it gives an hour by hour narration of what was occurring. The timeframe for his unfolding of the story is from 3:30 am on December 7, 1941 to 5:30 pm that same evening. At 3:30 most Americans were just lying in bed and relaxing on what seemed to them as just another Sunday morning. Some unlucky soldiers were at their gate post awaiting the arrival of some cargo ships. The soldiers on guard spotted a white light but when they shinned their spotlight on it the white light veered away. The soldiers dismissed it but they had no idea that it could have given them important information as to what Pearl Harbor was to undergo in the next few hours.
Most popular uprisings in recent history have been characterized by a brief period of incredible potential and hope, only to collapse in failure and despair. Even the supposedly 'successful' Russian Revolution of 1917 followed this pattern. Revolutionaries threw off centuries of imperial rule and oppression in order to create a new world of freedom, peace and equality... only to end up with Stalin, purges, gulags, dekulakization - and ultimately decades of Bolshevik1 rule and oppression. Although it can sometimes be disheartening to review this long history of failure and oppression, valuable insights can be gained by investigating these past revolutions. The achievements and promise of the revolutionaries can be studied and their strengths marked. The weaknesses that led to their eventual defeat and decay must also be understood, so that the same mistakes are not made again. This article will address these themes in the context of the Russian Revolution at the Kronstadt navel base.2
On the edge of North Beach, across the street from where the myriad of little shops in the wharf which sell Alcatraz t-shirts and miniature Cable Cars begin, two human outlines made of white paint adorn the ground in front of a union hall. These are passed by hundreds of tourists daily, as well as many residents, yet few stop to ponder the curious shapes or the crude text painted in red: “SHOT BY POLICE JULY 5, 1934.” Though this spot does not mark where the original incident occurred, for the men died in front of the original Longshoremen’s Hall on the corner of Mission and Steuart streets, when the new hall opened here on the edge of North Beach these outlines were placed to remember the event. That event, “Bloody Thursday,” became the climax of the waterfront strike in 1934 and a turning point for Employer and Union relations in San Francisco—and the rest of the nation.
were put to death. Even though the original opinion of the people about the uprising wasn’t in favor of it, after the death of the leaders they were outraged. (Coogan,”Troubles” pgs. 19-25)
...Anyone who didn’t follow these commands were to be exiled to a prison in Siberia. Some of these political prisoners were even executed just for practicing their own religion or speaking their native language. This forced them too grow more and more biter towards the Tsar. A Bolshevik revolution where the proletariats would rule the nation was everything they were yearning for.
I. A good majority of the Russian people were weary and uncontent with the way the war was going and with the Czar's rule. This uncontent, along with economic hardships, caused riots and demonstrations to break out. The Czar called for the army to put down the revolution, as they did in 1905. But the army joined the revolt and the Czar was kicked out of power soon afterwards.
But the Tsar had least central control. After the 1905 Revolution the Russian people were granted civil rights, an... ... middle of paper ... ... ressed the Tsars lost support from the nobles and power, after 1905 revolution Nicholas II had very little central control.
“On March 11, the Petrograd army’s troops were called out to try and stop the uprising protesters.”3 Some of the situations, soldiers started to pen fire, killing many demonstrators, but however it did not stop the strikers from leaving ...
In the years leading up to World War I, social unrest among the Russian people was spreading rapidly. There was a huge social gulf between the peasants who were former serfs and the landowners. The peasants regarded anyone who did not work as a parasite. They had always regarded as all land belonging to them. They regarded any land retained by the landowners at the time serfs were freed as stolen and only force could prevent them from taking it back. By the time Russia entered the war, one peasant rebellion had already been suppressed and several socialist revolutionary movements were developing.
In the roaring twenties, the life of organized crimes was at its peak. What was the greatest mob hit ever pulled off in history? Well I'll tell you. It all happened on Valentines Day, the morning of February 14th, 1929. This incident was call, "The St. Valentines Day Massacre". The man behind this infamous crime was none other than, the infamous Al "Scarface" Capone. Al Capone was the all time greatest mobster of all time. The idea of organized crime fascinates me in so many ways. Capone was the only person to have pulled off such a crime. Al Capone was top gangster in Chicago and was one of the greatest members of the Italian Mafia and George "Bugs" Moran was the leader of the Irish/German mafia and he was the main target behind this hit. He targeted Capone because Al Capones had a bounty on his head, $60,000,000, and found George Moran as a threat. George was Capone's biggest threat of all. He needed to take him out quickly. (Al Capone, True Crime Story). Writing this paper will let me learn a lot more about this massacre. There is one question I would like answered, "Why hadn't Moran's crew made an attempt to fight back?" (Al Capone, True Crime Story). Moran's men had a long history of being violent with others. This is one question that we will never know. My most used source on this essay will be internet information and a book. I feel these sources will give me the most amount of information. Using a magazine will too but it was very hard to find a 20's magazine article.
Russians were devastated and horrified with the situation; they started losing faith off Nicholas II. They decided to protest. An unarmed protest group led by the radical priest Father George Gapon marched on January 22nd, 1905 on Sunday towards the Tsar’s Winter Palace at St. Petersburg. They headed with a petition signed by almost 150,000 people urging to end the war. They were not intent of having any war against the Tsar or wanted any form of “political protest”. Their petition clearly stated that they plead to their Tsar to help them. The demonstrators were unware of the Tsar being absent in the Palace. Father Gapon explaining the situation to the imperials, handed over the petition to one of them at the Palace’s gate, in return the nervous imperials sighting the huge crowd marched towards them open fired at the crowd. The crowd urged that they were here not for any revolutions, rather wanted to offer the petition to their Tsar. The number of deaths inflated from a few to thousands. The death numbers were so high that the soldiers “disposed the bodies in the night to disguise the real numbers killed” (Trueman, 2016). The Tsar was informed about this Bloody Sunday
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them by the Soviet state. As explained by Steinberg, these are the actions of people who know what they want and are willing to sacrifice their lives in order to obtain it, such as true revolutionaries. Sukhanov does veiw the workers and soldiers as able to learn. He takes pride in seeing workers and civilians say to each other “They want bread, peace with the Germans, and equality for the Yids.” (page 17) in discussing what the revolting populace wanted. He is delited that they are using ideas from his writings and are taking the time to know the world around them.