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The "Bloody Sunday" Massacre in St Petersburg: on
9 January 1905 a peaceful march of workers and members of their
families to the Winter Palace was gunned down by the government
troops |
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In the first three months of 1905 alone over eight hundred thousand
workers took part in strikes |
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About forty thousand Russian university
students decided to boycott their classes for the rest of the
academic year |
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The general strike at the Black Sea port
of Odessa accompanied by the mutiny of sailors on the battleship
Potemkin |
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The October
nationwide political strike
with nearly two million people taking
part, including seven hundred
thousand railway workers |
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On 17 October 1905 Nicholas II signed a
Manifesto granting his subjects basic
civil and political rights and promising
the convocation of a State Duma, an elected legislative national
assembly |
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The Moscow insurrection in December 1905
attempted to bring the struggle against the autocracy to its logical
end but failed |
