Russia and Japan War

The people of Russia were very unhappy with the Russian government during 1907. They were especially mad with the Tsar, Nicholas II. How ever, the corrupted government was not the only reason why the Russian civilization rebelled against their own country and government. Other events such as the war between Russia and Japan (Russo- Japanese War), the massacre of poor workers in front of the Winters Palace in St. Petersburg Palace (Bloody Sunday), the mutiny of Russia’s most powerful naval ship the Potemkin which includes the revolution of 1905, and finally the role Russia played in the First World War.

The first reason as I have stated before was the Russo- Japanese war, the war between Russia and Japan. Both were fighting over Manchuria, East-China. Tsar Nicholas thought that this was an easy win. However, Russia lost and most of its naval army. An attack by the Japanese sank two Russian ships battleships and a cruiser at Port Arthur harbor. Three Russian infantry brigades and one artillery brigade invaded Korea, however this force was not strong enough to defeat the Japanese. The Russian army didn’t have any other reinforcements because most of its army was in European part of Russia and it would take 10 weeks by rail to transport a full size army all across the country. In March 1904, Japan attacked Vladivostok and extinguished any remains of the Russian navy. Later in April, Russia was in a full retreat after another battle between the two forces. In the end, Russia surrendered after Japan sieged Port Arthur by land. There were 45,000 Russian Casualties of people who defended the city.

Russia’s problem did not get any better, in fact they probably got worse. In the 1904, there were 500 strikes and protest in the whole ...

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...emkin, and how terribly bad Russia did during the First World War. The Russian population was not happy how the Tsar kept starting unnecessary wars and how he did not care about the people. In the end, the people of Russia managed to get Nicholas of the throne and were not under autocratic rule anymore.

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