HIS242H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Petrograd Soviet, 1905 Russian Revolution, Saint Petersburg
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Defensists: mensheviks and most socialist revolutionaries; believed that russian workers had to defend their country against attack. 1914: upsurge of patriotism and political unity; bolsheviks fear that the class struggle has been forgotten: by 1915, there were new demands for reform and better working conditions; peasants were being massacred in the army. War industries committee: formed in 1915 by industrialists and delegations of workers to improve wartime production. Progressive bloc: formed in august 1915 by some liberal members of the duma after tanneberg to encourage the tsar towards reform. As war got worse, bolsheviks found support among industrial workers; liberals were paralyzed by the tsar and militant workers: food shortages in 1916-1917 triggered nationalist agitation. Alexander kerensky: leader of socialist revolutionaries; denounced the war in the. Duma: nicolas got rid of members of the progressive bloc and replaced them with reactionaries; withdrew with his family.
