how important was 1905 in contributing to the Russian Revolution?

Answer 1

I don't think it was anymore important than any other of the many causative factors. It was just one more example to the people of the incompetence of their "little father". However, usually autocrats rule because they are respected and feared.

The events of 1905 lost the Czar a lot of respect, and when one includes the mutiny on the Potemkin, which showed the people that the fear factor generated by the control and support provided to the Czar by the armed forces could be broken; definite possibilities existed for revolutionaries, and, in fact, it was the defection of the army and navy that eventually sealed the fate of the Romanov dynasty.

Answer 2

In 1950 there was a convention held in Helsinki Finland of the Russian Social Democratic Party. During that convention a group left and boycotted the sessions. That group became known as the Bolsheviks. In October of 1917, after Tsar Nicholas II had abdicated, those same Bolsheviks overthrew the government of the First Provisional Republic headed up by Alexander Kerensky. So, the 1905 convention of the party set the stage for the first Russian Revolution which removed the Romanov Tsar from his throne and also set the stage for the Second Russian Revolution in which the Bolsheviks overthrew the Social Democrat government of the Republic. In a note of irony, when the Third Russian Revolution of 1991 threw the Bolsheviks out of power, the hammer and sickle flag of the former Soviet Union was replaced on the Kremlin's flag staff by the flag of the Russian Federation. A duplicate of the flag of the First Provisional Republic formed after the first Russian Revolution.

Answer 3

The 1905 Revolution has been called the 'Dress Rehearsal' Revolution, in which the Tsarist regime was given plenty of notice that not all was well within Russia.

1905 was very significant (as some other contributors have noted) to a change in the view of the Tsar and the Russian monarchy. The Tsar was known as the 'Little Father' of the Russian people - that all changed with the 1905 revolution being brutally crushed. The result was that Nicholas became linked with failure and brutality - Nicholas the bloody.

The failure of Russia to defeat Japan and the humiliating Peace Treaty was the spark that set off tensions within Russia such as unspeakable poverty, an almost overnight industrialisation that led to masses of agricultural workers moving to the cities, police oppression of unions, and the demands for a constitutional monarchy and parliament that gave the emerging middle class a say in government.

The Russian defeat by Japan was a clear sign that the Russian military - both navy and army was completely ill equipped for fighting a modern military machine such as Japan. The lessons of 1905 were not learnt and would be repeated in 1914 in the First World War.

In 1905, workers led by Father Gapon marched to the Winter Palace in a peaceful protest asking to meet with the Tsar. However, when Russian troops and cossaks massacred the workers in front of the Winter Palace, it earned the Tsar Nicholas II the title of 'Bloody Nicholas'.

1905 was also significant for the 1917 Revolution as the First Time in history, a Parliament or Duma was set up in which gave elements of society a say in government. The failure of Nicholas to heed the lessons of 1905, led to Nicholas dismissing the Parliament and its representatives in his 'senseless dreams' speech.

1905 was significant in that Nicholas lost the respect of every element of society including the nobility. It was a turning point in Russia.

Answer 4

Are you refering to the Russo-Japanese war, that the Russians lost? if so, not a whole lot, the revolution was already starting to brew before then, thngs where going down hill snce the early 1890s, Russia as a whole was failing to keep up with the industrial revolution of thre US, euroe and japan, it was a huge lumbering backwoods nation, and th Czar seemed content in keeping it ws just another straw that helped to break the camels back, might have gave some revolutionaires some fodder to print about, but russia had many problems, and mostly it was a goverment that was totally out of touch, mainly because the CZAR ws unassesible to anyone, and the people had no say, no vote no power to have there voice heard, they had no press to use, no party in goverment to support for there wants and needs. It was brewing for many years.

Answer 5

Which Russian revolution? The 1905 (which was suppressed by the Tzar's government), February 1917, or October 1917?

Answer 6

Chrstn already did the deed. I just want to add that the St. Petersburg Soviet was the first social experiment of the type in Russia and that it provided Revolutionary leader Leon Trotsky with invaluable administrative and insurrectionary experience. Also, it made Trotsky a popular hero of the coming revolution.

Not to underplay the importance of defeat in the Russo-Japanese War in weakening the loyalty of the Tsar's subjects. Which accompanied by poor harvests came to repeat it self in the Great War in 1917.

You have nothing to lose but your chains, workers of the world unite!

Answer 7

It was one of the factors that helped further the revolution because it was the year "Bloody Sunday" occurred when protesters showed up at the Tsar's Winter Palace to peacefully demonstrate (organized by a Russian Orthodox priest named Father Gapon) for employment, freedom of speech, etc. The people in the crowd weren't necessarily anti-Tsar at this point; they loved him and wanted him to bring about reform.

The Tsar was NOT at the palace at the time and a group of the Tsar's imperial guards came up, took aim, and fired into the crowd. The number of people who were killed vary from viewpoint to viewpoint (according to Wikipedia).

This event may have changed peoples' minds about the Tsar. Some of them thought that he didn't care about the common man and thus turned against him. However, Tsar Nicholas II didn't hear about it until later and it was upsetting to him that his own guards fired on these people.

Answer 8

~Well, without 1905, the calendar would have gone right from 1904 to 1906 and everyone would have been so confused about the date that they wouldn't have had the time or energy to get involved in a war.