Why was the tsarist system faced with such a wide range of opposition in 1905?

Answer 1

The tsars were autocrats and ran the whole caboodle. Trouble is they weren't that good at it and failed to resolve rising inflation, food shortages and the rest of it. They were not politically, financially or intellectually astute and it showed.

Answer 2

it was a very corrupt system - positively medieval considering it was the 20th Century. There was terrible hardship in Russia as there always was and people were sick to death of the rich getting richer on the backs of the peasantry. The land was owned by a very small percentage of the population which often did not care whether the rest of the people starved or not. Past efforts to modernise Russia - such as those of Peter the Great - failed to make Russia an industrial country of any note and it remained rather backward. The excess and inefficiency of the ruling classes gave birth to the Revolution

Answer 3

The middle classes of Russia desired political power, like that which had been achieved by the middle classes in the USA, the British Empire, and Third French Republic.

Tsarist Russia was a Feudal system that had just abolished serfdom in the Nineteenth-Century, and power was dominated by an aristocracy. The middle class as the main class of trade and business attempted to use their economic value as a way to bring about change and to obtain political power. The concept of hereditary administration was becoming difficult to defend due to the intellectual and philosophical environment of the time.

The working classes also strategically allied themselves with the middle classes to achieve greater liberties, such as freedom to organise labour.

Answer 4

The church and the monarchy had oppressed the ordinary people for centuries and with the extension of travel in the 19th century because of the railway people were beginning to compare their situation with other countries where the population were better off.
The Russians lost a war against Japan in 1905 and this triggered public unrest because of the incompetance of the leadership.

Answer 5

They were tyrants and their people were suffering. It's a pretty simple equation of 1 + 1 = bloodshed