HSTR 240B Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Petrograd Soviet, Leon Trotsky, Saint Petersburg
13 Sep 2016
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1874 hundreds of university students went to the people" to show them how oppressed they really where (dressed like peasants) 193 where put on trail: radical populists morphed into people"s will. There is even greater repression under the new tsar alexander iii. Discontent grew : 1890"s socialist revolutionaries. Peasants were the key to a better future change in russia (when they finally realised they were being oppressed. 1901 socialist revolutionary party was founded (also known as the rs: 1898 russian social democratic party founded. Industrial working class (i. e. proletariat [industrial working class]) was the key! Russia was at war with japan over manchuria 1904-1905: september 1905 russian empire had to sued for peace with japan (this was a shock to all of europe) Soviets independent workers" and soldiers" councils (moscow) this caused a general strike, and some peasant uprising. 1905: dress rehearsal for revolution"? (leon trotsky: 9 january 1905. Bloody sunday 400,000 workers gather outside tsar"s winter palace in.
