HIS 1110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: 1905 Russian Revolution, Saint Petersburg

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: History
• Course: HIS 1110
• Professor: Francois Lalonde

Document Summary

Russian revolution & the birth of the ussr. )the tsar and his family are seen as incompetent and people are suffering. )protest and strikes in petrograd, tsar sends out the army to repress it. )nationalism is awakening in non-russian provinces of russia. )some mutiny in the army and on a battleship. )under the pressure of the protestors the tsar creates the duma a parliament of the people. )the russian generals on the eastern front are incompetent and keep losing battles after battles. )food shortages and discontent against the tsars grows. )demonstrations and protest turn bloody when the soldiers sent by the tsars shoot in the crowd. )soldiers start mutilating and joining the protest after killing their officer. )soldiers in petrograd are mutilating everywhere and the tsars regime is crumbling. )the tsar abdicates and the duma takes over as a temporary government. ) lenin is allowed across germany by the german government who backs revolutionary groups like the bolsheviks.