methods of rule too much. An opportunity to keep popularity squandered. After dissolving the first duma another duma was voted in as of February 1907 however this only lasted until the June. This duma had a higher representation of Bolsheviks and Mensheviks. Once more he dissolved this body because he felt they were expressing anger against the army; he used the excuse of an assassination plot to dissolve
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Explain why the Russia revolution failed? In my opinion the failure of the revolution in 1905 was caused by many different contributing factors‚ however the key reason for the failure‚ was the success of state authority and the Tsar retaining control. If the Tsarist state had collapsed‚ as in 1917‚ the revolution would have inevitably been successful. A revolution means to forcibly overthrow a government. In February 1905‚ 400‚000 workers went on strike due to the response of the bloody Sunday;
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with a more democratic rule. Some felt that other powers were progressing faster than they were and that the Tsar should adopt some of their thinking. Moreover‚ of course‚ there were the communists‚ like the two groups‚ the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks. • Russia ’s defeat in the Russo-Japanese War: Russia took on Japan in 1904‚ when Japan competed with
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Lenin lead the Russian Communists to power in November 1917. Strictly this should read Russian Bolsheviks as the party Lenin had joined as a young man split in two in 1903. Those who left the party were few in number and became known as the Mensheviks. The majority stayed with Lenin and they became known as the Bolsheviks which means majority in Russian. Lenin was born in 1870. His family was reasonably well off and Lenin wanted for nothing. At school‚ Lenin was a very gifted pupil but bossy
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How far do you agree that the Russo-Jap war was the main cause of the 1905 revolution? There were many factors that contributed to the 1905 revolution in Russia. They range from political opposition groups such as the Bolsheviks and the social revolutionaries‚ to the failure to reform. The Russo-Jap war of 1905 acted as the trigger to the revolution. However many factors such as increasing political discontent within the cities and countryside were also important and these issues can be linked back
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Guilty until Proven Guilty Mikhail Khodorkovsky was arrested on October 24‚ 2003‚ by armed police forces in Novosobirsk. He was the wealthiest person in Russia with a billion dollars because of his management of Russia’s largest oil company‚ Yukos. Khodorkovsky rose as an oligarch easily because of his relationship with Boris Yeltsin‚ President of Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The reason Khodorkovsky was arrested was because of his failure to follow the government and pay $4.5 billion
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1a) i) True ii) Neither side won the war Iii) True IV) True V) True VI) True Vii) False Vii) True Que 1b. Provisional Government was set up (February 1917) Abdication of Tsar Nicholas II (2nd March 1917) Food riots in Petrograd (8th March 1917) Formation of Petrograd Soviet of Workers and Soldiers Deputies (March 1917) Lenin releases his ‘April Theses’ (4th April 1917) ‘July days’ (3rd to 7th July according to Julian calendar and 16th to 20th July according to Gregorian calendar)
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HISTORY 2084: RUSSIA IN WAR AND REVOLUTION‚ 1894-1953 ACCOUNT FOR STALIN ’S RISE TO POWER IN THE PERIOD 1922 TO 1929 INTRODUCTION Stalin ’s ascent to the leadership of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was neither easy nor inevitable. Following the incapacitation and subsequent death of Vladimir Lenin‚ there were many legitimate claimants to this leadership: Grigory Zinoviev‚ Lev Kamenev‚ Nikolai Bukharin and‚ particularly‚ Leon Trotsky‚ Lenin ’s right-hand man and heir apparent.
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Using the four sources and your own knowledge‚ assess the view that the failures of the Provisional Government were the main factors in enabling Lenin and the Bolsheviks to seize power. Seizure of power appeared more prominently due to the nature of 1917‚ in which the April Theses was published‚ the July Days occurred and the Kornilov Affair‚ which emphasised the weaknesses of the Provisional Government. However‚ it is how the Bolsheviks enabled their power through 1917: through their powerful
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problem in itself: no one wanted to work together. Some of the revolutionary groups included the Socialist Revolutionary (SR)‚ and born from the Russian Marxists‚ who formed the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (RSDLP) was the Bolsheviks and Mensheviks. Another main group were the Constitutional Democrats‚ also known as the Cadets‚ made up primarily of the educated and propertied classes. Initially‚ regardless of their individual tactics‚ all these groups aimed to replace tsarism with a democratic
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