Question

What do you know about Bloody Sunday? What is its significance in Russian history?

Answer 1

Hint: -One of the main events that led to the Russian Revolution is considered to be this particular bloody protest.
-In the early 20th century, the Russian Revolution was a series of revolutions that eventually culminated in the overthrow of Tsar Nicholas II and the formation of a Communist government.

Complete answer: Bloody Sunday 1905-
-About 200,000 employees approached the Tsar's Winter Palace in St. Petersburg on January 22, 1905, with a petition asking for better working conditions, more individual freedom, and an elected national legislature.
-Their aims were to send a petition to Czar Nicholas II, asking for reforms such as limits on the authority of state officials, changes in working standards and hours, and the introduction of a national parliament.
-Tsar Nicholas II was not in the palace, but there were his generals who ordered the soldiers to shoot at the crowd. Hundreds of unarmed workers were killed. This event was called Bloody Sunday. The event provoked a wave of strikes and violence across Russia.
-Tsar Nicholas II opposed reform but in October 1905, he reluctantly promised more freedom. He supported the creation of the Duma, the first parliament in Russia. In May 1906, the first Duma met.
-Its moderate leaders wanted Russia to become like Britain, a constitutional monarchy. After ten weeks, reluctant to share his control, the Tsar disbanded the Duma.

Significance of Bloody Sunday-
-The massacre on Bloody Sunday is known as the beginning of the active period of the 1905 Revolution
-Historians such as Lionel Kochan in his book Russia in the Revolution 1890-1918, in addition to the launch of the 1905 Revolution, consider the events of Bloody Sunday to be one of the main events that led to the 1917 Russian Revolution.
-During this period a group of worker organisations called Soviet came into being as it was a body of workers representatives at a for the purpose of conducting strikes.
-Later soviets of peasants, soviets of soldiers sprang up all over the country and the soviets played a very crucial role to make Russian Revolution a success.
-Russia became the USSR Union of soviet socialist republics in 1917 which lasted until its disintegration in 1991. This made Karl Marx's idea of socialism and the proletariat revolution a reality.

Note: -Other events of the Russian Revolution include the rise of Mensheviks and bolsheviks under Lenin; February revolution marks the fall of tzar rule, on 27 Feb 1917.
-The collapse of the Kerensky government on 25 October 1917, known as the October revolution of 1917.
-The first soviet constitution was adopted on 10 July 1918 which created the Russian Soviet federated socialist Republic and later on December 30, 1922, in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics(USSR) came into being.