Why Did The 1905 Revolution Occur

Both the 1905 and 1917 revolutions were different in their own unique way. The 1905 revolution was crushed and stopped quickely with the Tsar rule however it played a large part of succeeding when over throwing the Tsar in the February revolution in 1917. Nicholas II was a hereditary ruler, “appointed by god”, his absolute power was ratified by the “fundamental laws of the empire”. There have also been years of social and political problems in Petrograd and beyond under the Tsar’s rule. However, this leads me to the topic I will be discussing which is “No War, no revolution”, I believe that even without the war a revolution was inevitable the war just brought everyone together and closer but after WW1 was over people still wanted to over throw the Tsar.

The 1905 revolution was caused by many things in Russia as this time. Firstly, the living conditions amongst the main people who started the revolution in 1905. While industrialisation began, which meant there was an increase in the labour force in Russia but the living conditions did not improve. This saw a need for a better standard of living for the Russian workers. Also, the Russo- Japanese war caused even more friction between the peasants and the Tsar as there was high inflation during the war, which

However, we must examine why the in 1905 the revolution did not over throw the Tsar. The political parties which were involved in the 1905 revolution shared the same goal of over throwing the Tsar, but they did not work in unity together. Each political party had diverse ways of tackling Tsarism. The political parties also had issues amongst themselves, the Mensheviks disagreed with the Bolsheviks and also the moderate socialist revolutionaries disagreed with the radical socialist revolutionaries, so this shows us that the parties were weak and struggling to overthrow the monarchy due to the fact that they disagreed with each