ENGL 338 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: New Economic Policy, War Communism, Bloody Sunday (1905)
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Revolution (1905); the revolution was unsuccessful: october manifesto (1905): a piece of legislation that gave the people more rights and created a duma- a legislative elected body, but in (1906) the fundamental. Laws decreased any power that the duma had over the economy or ministries. However, after the october manifesto, previously underground political parties suddenly became legal, and two became prominent: socialist revolutionaries: they believed the base of society was in the peasantry. They used propaganda and terrorism, such as political assassinations: marxists: they focused on the working class and called for a worker/proletariat revolution and social equality. Contextually, after the (1861) abolition of serfdom, marxist ideals became increasingly popular because the working class grew: wwi (1914-1918) (march 15, 1917), after so much unrest, the tsar abdicated his rule, after which. Russia became a republic and implemented the dual system wherein two powers ruled the country:
