Name: Bolsheviks and the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Uploaded: 2019-07-19
Duration: 4 min 54 s
Description: What happened after the October Revolution and the rise of the Bolsheviks Party? We will also learn more about the Peace Treaty of Brest-Litovsk.

Question

Why were there revolutionary disturbances in Russia in

1905

? What were the demands of revolutionaries?

Accepted Answer

The causes of the revolutionary disturbances in Russia in $1905$ were:

Due to Russia’s defeat by Japan in $1904$ , prices of essential goods rose so quickly that real wages declined by $20$ percent. At the Putilov Iron Works, the dismissal of some workers caused a strike.

During the subsequent events, a procession of workers was attacked by police in which $100$ workers died and about $300$ wounded. The incident, known as Bloody Sunday.

Subsequent strikes took place all over the country, resulting in the creation of an elected parliament or Duma.

The revolutionaries demanded a reduction in daily working hours to eight, an increase in wages, and an improvement in working conditions.

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