Imperial Russia
December 8, 1998
Professor Knight

The Revolution of 1905

I.  The Pattern of 19th Century Revolutions
	The Old Order (Privilege), The New Order (Property), Labor

II. United Front Against Autocracy
	Radical Movements
		Marxists (Social Democrats)
			1898—First Marxist Party Founded
				Economism, Legal Marxism.
			Newspaper “Iskra” (The Spark)
			Congress of 1902—Party Splits
				Bolsheviks, Mensheviks
		 Working Class Movement
			1896-97—St. Petersburg Textile Strike
			Police Unionism—Zubatov
		Socialist Revolutionaries
			Victor Chernov
			Battle Organization (Terrorist Unit)
			Assassinations of Dmitri Sipiagin (1902) Viacheslav Pleve (1904)
	Liberal Movement
		Zemstvo Congresses
		Professional Organizations
		Beseda circle
		Union of Liberation (1905)
			Pavel Miliukov—Historian, Liberal Politician
		“Liberation” (1903-1904) Illegal newspaper of liberal movement.

III.  The Russo-Japanese War
	Chinese Empire—The Sick Man of Asia
	Manchuria
	Trans-Siberian Railroad
	Japanese Imperialism—Sino-Japanese War (1896)
	Clashed along Yalu River—Border with Korea.
	February 1904—Japan Launches Surprise Attack on Russian Fleet at Port Arthur
	December 1905—Port Arthur Falls
	Battle of Mukden—February 1905
	Battle of Tsushima Straits—Russia loses entire fleet.
	Treaty of Portsmouth (Summer 1905)

IV.  The Revolution of 1905
	“Bloody Sunday”—January 9, 1905
	Bulygin Rescript—February 18, 1905, Promises Consultative Assembly
	“Soviets”—Strike Committees
	Union of Unions:  Founded May 1905, Led by Pavel Miliukov
	Political Demands:  Civil Rights, Amnesty, Constitutuent Assembly
		“Four-Tail Suffrage”: Universal, Direct, Equal, Secret
	Peasant Union: May 1905
	Bulygin Duma—August 1905
	October 7 1905—General Strike Begins
	October 17th—Tsar issues Manifesto
	November 1905—“Days of Freedom”
	Petersburg Soviet 
		Lev Trotsky
	December 1905—Moscow Uprising