Bloody Sunday: The Russian Revolution

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THE LAST TSAR COLLAPSES

Was Rasputin a cause of the fall of the last Tsar ? Was World War II an outcome of the Russian Revolution ? It all starts out from Bloody Sunday. On January 22, 1905, a group of workers led by radical priest Georgy Apollonovich Gapon (also known as Father Gapon) marched to the Tsar's winter palace in St. Petersburg to make their demands. Imperial forces shot at the group of workers or demonstrators, killing and wounding hundreds. Later strikes and riots broke out throughout the country in outraged response to the massacre, Nicholas responded by promising the formation of a series of representative assemblies, or Dumas, to work toward reform. But from that occurs another cause of the revolution because Tsar …show more content…

The poor performance of the Russian government, and with the stress that the war put on the Russian society and economy, made people who were already unhappy with the regime want to split and rebel. Russians had been unhappy for a long time with the autocratic tsarist regime and the country's economic backwardness. This unhappiness had been had been their since the country's war loss against Japan in 1905. Less than ten years later after the Japan war, Russia was back at war. Once again Russia suffered humiliating defeats. This made the people once again more angry and unhappy with their government. 1.7 million Russians were killed and about 5 million wounded. The Russians were later unhappy with the regimes ineptitude and also with its lack of concern for huge casualty numbers. The people also got upset with the economic issue. The Russian economy was never really strong, and now it had to waste all it had to fight in the war. This led to shortages for civilian population and even more unrest. And since the Ottoman Empire was allied with Germany, and was the southern blockade route that led to Russia. It made Russia stop getting supply's, run out of food, prices went up, huge inflation, and massive poverty. How do you think the Russian people felt ? All of this unhappiness of the Russian people helped to create a situation where the Russian Revolution could take

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