1. What is happening during Russia during 1905? Pick out 2-3 main points. 2. What relationship can you draw out between the events of the Russo Japanese War and domestic unrest in Russia? 3. Why might this relationship between events exist?
1. What is happening during Russia during 1905? Pick out 2-3 main points. 2. What relationship can you draw out between the events of the Russo Japanese War and domestic unrest in Russia? 3. Why might this relationship between events exist?
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The 1905 'revolution' - The events of 1904/5
Events in Russia
Events in Russo-Japanese War
20th Russia' naval base at Port Arthur
surrenders to Japanese
9th Battle of Mukden begins (ends 25th March,
by which time Russian army defeated and
90,000 troops killed)
14th and 15th Russian Baltic fleet sunk in
Tsushima Strait by Japanese forces under
Admiral Togo
23rd Treaty of Portsmouth ends
Russo-Japanese War; Russia concedes territory
to Japan including southern half of island of
Sakhalin (less than half of the demands that
Japan had initially made)
3rd Strike at Putilov Iron Works
9th Bloody Sunday
4th Assassination of Grand Duke Sergei
Aleksandrovich, the Tsar's uncle, killed by a Social
Revolutionary bomb
18th Nicholas reaffirms faith in autocratic rule but
also promises elected consultative assembly; asks
Bulygin (new MOI) to prepare draft proposals
Zemstvo liberals meet in Moscow
All-Russian Union of Railway Workers established
and everywhere workers begin forming illegal trade
unions
8th/9th Union of Unions' set up: a federation of
liberal/left professional unions demanding full civil
and political rights, universal suffrage and nationwide
elections to an assembly with full legislative powers;
Peasants' congress in Moscow calls for All-Russian
Union of Peasants
14th Mutiny on Battleship Potemkin - began over
mouldy meat ration and led to mutiny, where seven
officers were killed. When townsfolk arrived to pay
respects and show solidarity with sailors, sailors fired
on them. Many jumped into sea; over 2000 killed;
around 3000 wounded.
Second Congress of Union of Unions prepares for
General Strike
Spread of peasant unrest
24th - Bulygin published details of plans for
constitutional reform
12th-15th Zemstvo conference rejects Bulygin's draft
proposal, known as 'Bulygin's Duma' and demands a
Duma elected by universal suffrage
29th Printers' strike sets off wave of strikes in
Moscow
1. What is happening during Russia during 1905? Pick out 2-3 main points.
2. What relationship can you draw out between the events of the Russo Japanese War and domestic unrest in
Russia?
3. Why might this relationship between events exist?
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