In 1905, a revolt against the government erupted, which once again had plunged Russia into an imperialist war against Japan (in 1904, for control of Manchuria and Korea). The Russians were victorious, and the costs of this victory, both material and human, strengthened Nicholas II.

a peaceful demonstration of workers in St. Petersburg, in early 1905, in front of the imperial palace, was violently repressed and hundreds of protesters were killed. The episode - known as Bloody Sunday - triggered several workers' strikes and a rebellion of the sailors of the battleship Potemkin.

The czar, fearing losing control of the situation, created in August 1905 an assembly (Duma), which was supposed to act as a parliament.

Between December 1905 and January 1906, about 15,000 people were executed and another 80,000 were arrested. The government managed to quell the popular revolt and restore absolutism in Russia.

With the aim of creating unity in the popular movement, the Soviet (Council) of Workers of St. Petersburg was founded, whose main leader was Leon Trotsky.

Read the paragraph below. "The people were tired of the war and had lost all confidence in the czar. [...] The czar himself had gone to the headquarters to protect himself; and when he tried to return to Petrograd, the railway workers stopped his train. The entire mechanism of the monarchy had stopped; the czar [...] had tried to dissolve the Fourth Duma, as he had done with the previous ones, but this time the parliamentarians refused to disperse and formed a Provisional Committee, which appointed the Provisional Government." ( WILSON, Edmundo. Towards the Finland Station. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 1987.) Regarding the facts described above, it is INCORRECT to affirm that:

Question about Russian Revolution: From the Fall of the Tsar to the Revolutionary Process

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Topic Russian Revolution: From the Fall of the Tsar to the Revolutionary Process

Russian Revolution: From the Fall of the Tsar to the Revolutionary Process

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