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Beginning & Issues & Riot Forms
Want Tsar Nicholas II to go from autocracy to constitutional monarchy
Russo-Japanese War cause more discontent
Protest forms: strikes, student riots, terrorist assassinations
Coordinated by Union of Liberations
Bloody Sunday January 9 (22): Massacre of peaceful demonstrators at Winter Palace
St. Petersburg and industrial centers participate in general strikes
Spread to Poland, Finland, Baltic, Georgia provinces
Riot along Trans-Siberian Railroad
Revolution Continues
February announce elected assembly
Striking workers/peasants/zemstvo liberals still unhappy, they want a constituent assembly (April)
Government decree on August 6 (19) for elections cause more protest in September
Revolution peaks October-November
Railroad strike October 7 (20)
First worker’s council or soviet as strike committee
End & Results
Sergei Witte October Manifesto promise constitution and Duma and Witte president of Council of Ministers
Radicals not pleased, even liberals don’t participate, some moderates/workers return to work, enough to weaken St. Petersburg soviet
End November arrest soviet chairman, December 3/16 Menshevik G.S. Khrustalev-Nosar take over, arrest Trotsky etc.
New strike in Moscow, Finland fix legislature, Poland/Baltic.Georgia have military expeditions
1906 regain Trans-Siberian Railroad and army control
Fail to replace tsar with democratic republic or constituent assembly, many revolutionaries arrested
Succeed in forcing reforms especially Fundamental Laws (constitution) and Duma
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War Communism
New Economic Plan (NEP)