Nicholas II
1894-1917
Khodynka Fields Massacre
May 1896
1400 men and women trampled to death
St Petersburg 1901
Squadron of mounted cossacks charged into St Petersburg
13 dead
1500 imprisoned
Years of Red Cockerel
1902-1907
Tsar’s minister
Pyotr Stolypin
Stolypins necktie
Peasants, flogged, arrested shot during 1902-07
Industrial strikes 1894-1904
17,000 - 90,000
Moscow Chief of Okhrana
Zubatov
Own police sponsored trade unions
1900-1903
Zubatov exiled and dismissed when trade unions became involved in general strike Odessa
Governor general of Moscow
Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich
Gapon union
Assembly of St Petersburg Factory Workers
8000 members
12 branches
Gapon dead
1906
Russio-Japanese War
1904
Minister of internal affairs 02-04
Plehve
Replacement of Plehve
Mirksy
Expansion of rights of zemstva
1904
Putilov Iron Workers Strike
3rd January 1905
Bloody Sunday
9th January 1905
150,000
Narva Gates 40 dead
Troitskaya Square 150 dead
Hymns, banners peaceful
Crossed knees as open fire
12,000 troops break up demonstration
Tsarskoe Selo v Winter Palace St Petersburg
Nicholas II agree to meet workers’ representatives
After 4th February 1905
Mirsky replacements
Bulygin Internal Affairs
Trepov Military governor of St Petersburg
Grand Duke Sergei Aleksandrovich dead
1904 4th February
Mutiny on Battleship Potemkin
1905
Mouldy meat ration = mutiny = 7 officers killed
Sailed to Odessa
2000 killed 3000 wounded
October Manifesto song
1905
La Marseillaise
Different social groups
Social Revoluionaries = Chernov
SDWP split into Bolsheviks and Mensheviks = Lenin and Martov
Trudoviks
Kadets = Milyukov
Octobrists = Guchkov
Progressives
Rightists