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The [[Mensheviks]] supported the liberal bourgeoisie and not the peasants in the 1905 revolution. They also participated in the | The [[Mensheviks]] supported the [[Liberalism|liberal]] bourgeoisie and not the peasants in the 1905 revolution. They also participated in the Bulygin Duma. | ||
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The Russian revolution of 1905, or the First Russian Revolution, was a bourgeois-democratic revolution which that took place between January 1905 and June 1907 in the Russian Empire. It was during this revolution that the first Soviets were established by workers to organize their revolution.
Strikes
In December 1904, a large strike of oilfield workers began in Baku. This was followed by strikes in Petrograd in January 1905.
Bloody Sunday
On 22 January 1905, 140,000 workers gathered and marched to the Winter Palace to bring a petition to Tsar Nicholas II. The tsar's troops fired upon them, killing over a thousand unarmed workers. By the end of January, about 440,000 workers were on strike.[1]
Tactics of Bolsheviks and Mensheviks
Bolsheviks
The Bolsheviks supported the peasantry against the landlords and boycotted the Bulygin Duma, a representative legislature created by the tsar.[2]
Mensheviks
The Mensheviks supported the liberal bourgeoisie and not the peasants in the 1905 revolution. They also participated in the Bulygin Duma.
References
- ↑ Joseph Stalin (1939). History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks): 'The Mensheviks and the Bolsheviks in the Period of the Russo-Japanese War and the First Russian Revolution; Russo-Japanese War. Further Rise of the Revolutionary Movement in Russia. Strikes in St. Petersburg. Workers’ Demonstration Before the Winter Palace on January 9, 1905. Demonstration Fired Upon. Outbreak of the Revolution'. New York: International Publishers. [MIA]
- ↑ Joseph Stalin (1939). History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks): 'The Mensheviks and the Bolsheviks in the Period of the Russo-Japanese War and the First Russian Revolution; Tactical Differences Between Bolsheviks and Mensheviks. Third Party Congress. Lenin’s Two Tactics of Social-Democracy in the Democratic Revolution. Tactical Foundations of the Marxist Party'. New York: International Publishers. [MIA]