WHY WAS BLOODY SUNDAY IMPORTANT IN CAUSING THE 1905 REVOLUTION?

-their conditions worsened in 1904 due to the Russo-Japanese War and an economic
recession. This led to the formation of workers’ sections.

-on the 22nd January 1905, the Bloody Sunday massacre took place in capital Saint
Petersburg

-there was growing discontent amongst the Russian working class that led Father Gapon
and more than 150,000 people to establish a petition whose demands included higher
wages, shorter working hours, and free elections.

-this petition received a hundred and fifty thousand signatures

-Bloody Sunday’, as it became known, eroded respect for tsarism and contributed to a wave
of general strikes, political demands, and violence that became the 1905 Revolution.

-The aftermath brought about a short-lived revolution in which the Tsar lost control of large
areas of Russia. The revolution failed but it served as a serious warning of what might
happen in the future.

-This demonstration of factory workers was brutally put down by Russian soldiers. Up to 200
people were killed by rifle fire and Cossack charges

- The massacre was followed by a series of strikes in other cities, peasant uprisings in the
country, and mutinies in the armed forces

- which seriously threatened the tsarist regime and became known as the Revolution of
1905.

-this Bloody Sunday is was seen as one of the key causes of the 1905 Revolution.

By FARHANA JAIDI (BE02) AND NADIAH (BE10)