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Russian Revolution
The 1905 Russian revolution was not a ‘dress rehearsal’ as Lenin would put it, but rather an indication of popular belief and attitudes of the people towards Tsar Nicholas II’s autocratic regime and of what was to come if current trends in the government continued. Furthermore, it is difficult to argue that the events of 1905 were in fact an actual full-scale revolution. A revolution by definition is one which at the very least, is aimed at effectively overthrowing a former government and introducing a new administration. The events of 1905 weren’t aimed (in the long run) at overthrowing Tsar Nicholas II – its purpose was to achieve government concessions. In comparison to the actual revolution of 1917 which ousted the Tsarist regime, the events of 1905 were merely a large scale national riot in reaction to the government with events such as Bloody Sunday as the trigger for riots. One of the central reasons that the events of 1905 does not deserve the same status as that of 1917, for one, was that national unity in support for the government in 1905 was scarce, and secondly, the armed forces didn’t support the action. The events pf 1905 occurred in a society whose revolutionary groups were divided from one another, were deprived of focus, incapable of common action[1], and weren’t ready to complete a full scale revolution. Those attacking at the government ranged from Leninists to land owners – the former seeking to seize land for the peasants, the latter hoping to save their land from the peasants. This leads to confusion, a lack of clarity and unity, and in some cases, conflict as many of the groups had quite different and incompatible methods, desires, and remedies to each-other[2]. To top this off, none of the strikers had the materials or organizational resources in terms of armaments (or anything else for that matter) to sustain a full scale uprising[3], which demonstrates the events of 1905 were mealy a strike action, and not a r... Please login to view comments from other users.
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