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Abraham Ascher

The Russian Revolution

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  • fiona adenishas quoted7 years ago
    The Grand Duke took a revolver from his pocket: “You see this revolver,” he said, “I am now going to the Tsar and will implore him to sign the manifesto and Witte’s program; either he signs or I will shoot
  • fiona adenishas quoted7 years ago
    myself.”’ Only then did the sovereign agree to sign the Manifesto.
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    During a congress held on 21–8 October 1905, liberals formed the Constitutional Democratic Party for People’s Freedom, generally known as the Kadets.
  • fiona adenishas quoted7 years ago
    The Constitutional Democratic Party (also known as the Kadets) was founded in mid-October 1905
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    The rampaging mobs also targeted the intelligentsia; anyone, in fact, who was presumed to have participated in the movement
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    690 anti-Jewish massacres (known as pogroms) occurred, primarily in the southwestern provinces; 820 people were killed and between 7,000 and 8,000 injured. The damage to property during the pogroms has been valued at 62 million rubles.
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    The first occurred on the Kronstadt naval base on 26–7 October, and by mid-Decem
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    December 1905 a total of 211 had broken out in the army
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    6 December, the government decided on a series of military reforms—increase in pay and meat rations, abolition of forced labor, and reduction in the term of service—which helped restore calm
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    troops to put down the workers and peasants who continued to resist its authority. This step proved instrumental in turning back the tide of revolution.
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