Outline in a detailed and lucid, and fluid manner How Political repression and the emergence of Revolutionaries and opposition groups was an factor in causing the 1905 Russian revolution.
Outline political repression within Tsarist Russia, start with
how Tsar Nicholas Iafter a military uprising against his rule in 1825 led Tsar Nicholas I to impose a repressive regime. Despite the spread of Western liberalism, which attracted Russian intellectuals, he led a strict autocracy and distanced Russia from the West. Under Nicholas, censorship increased, national minorities faced strict restrictions, and the Third Section (the secret police) was established.
Talk about how Russia had developed into a police state. Many things were forbidden, including:
Freedom of speech
A free press
International travel
Political meetings
Strikes
Make a reference to Pogroms in the Russian Empire.
Make a reference to women and their grievances about illiteracy.
Talk about how There were two main types of groups who opposed Tsardom: 1. Revolutionaries (extremists) –believed Russia could not progress unless tsarist system was destroyed. 2. Reformers (liberals) – strong critics of Tsarist regime, but believed it could be changed for better by reform from within
THE LINK BELOW GIVES guidance on the various political parties but cant not be used as a source;
https://www.ecgbert.sheffield.sch.uk/attachments/download.asp?file=286&type=pdf
Primary sources are essential for this, so ill give some sites below with English translations Talk about how The main bodies of government in tsarist Russia were not reflective of the majority of people and unjust :
The Imperial Council or Chancellery
35 to 60 nobles, picked by the Tsar to personally advise him.
The Council of Ministers
8 to 14 ministers who led different government departments. Ministers were usually chosen from the mobility.
The Senate
10 senators, usually of noble birth, who observed the government’s workings. Although the Senate continued to exist, it had become practically redundant by 1855. This was because, although it still supervised ministers, it rarely intervened in government affairs.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/index.htm Look up the Mensheviks and Bolsheviks further down the page for more primary sources centred on political repression has lots of different figures
Must use this primary source from Tolstoy that outlines political repression
https://www.arvindguptatoys.com/arvindgupta/what-I-believe-tolstoy.pdf
https://www.marxists.org/history/international/social-democracy/index.htm The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party
https://www.marxists.org/archive/zasulich/1897/russian-strikers.htm The Russian Strikers, 30 January 1897
https://www.marxists.org/archive/index.htm Look up the Mensheviks and Bolsheviks further down the page for more primary sources centred on political repression (THIS IS IMPORTANT )
https://www.marxists.org/archive/index.htm Look up the Mensheviks and Bolsheviks further down the page for more primary sources centred on political repression has lots of different figures
Also the writing of Father Georgy Gapon, and Vladimir Lenin would also be useful
