The Never Ending Revolutionization

The mass of people were serfs. Serfs were 'slaves'. They worked on the estates of the nobles. They could be punished in any form by the nobles. They could even be sold as chattels by the nobles. Besides the serfs, there was a very small middle class in the towns. They were discontented with the backwardness of Russia.

As an autocrat, no other monarch in Europe claimed such large powers or stood so high above his subjects as Nicholas II. Autocracy was traditionally impati

Although Nicholas (II) had full control of Russia, his libral parties had the task of solving the peasent problems that were constantly erupting. They were faced with a choice between going with the peasant masses or with the liberal bourgeoisie. There could be only one reason to include the peasantry and the liberal bourgeoisie in the same coalition at the same time: to help the bourgeoisie deceive the peasantry and thus isolate the workers. The agrarian revolution could have been accomplished only against the bourgeoisie, and therefore only through the masses of the dictatorship of the proletariat. These problems were due to the poor devisions of land that were given to the peaseants, which lead to "Privilege Russia." The Revolution was to be a new starting point that even purely democratic problems, like the land ownership, cannot be solved without the conquest of power by the proletariat; but this in turn places the socialist revolution on the agenda. Moreover, during the very first stages of the revolution, the workers themselves posed in practice not merely democratic problems but also purely socialist ones. The demand not to transgress the bounds of bourgeois democracy signifies in practice not a defense of the democratic revolution but a repudiation of it.

At this time, war with Japan was impending. Nicholas saw it as an opportunity to rally loyalty to the empire once more. However his major error was that he under-estimated the strength of the Japanese. He believed his fleets would crush them. However, the Japanese defeated the Russians and destroyed all her fleets. The defeat in this war and the expense it incurred were direct causes of the revolution which occured just a few weeks later.

The Revolution created in 1905, caused two things. First, it granted basic civil liberties to all, despite religion or nationality; it even legalized political parties. This concession was capped by the creation of an elected legislative body, the Imperial Duma . Second, it split the revolutionary front, reconciling the most cautious elements among the moderates, who had no heart for violence, with a government which promised to end the abuses of autocracy. For the first time in the history of Russia, millions of people in the cities and in the villages took part in a revolutionary movement. In the cities, the workers organized the soviets. The soviets were composed of men elected by workers of various factories. They had acted as an effective government for a short period of time. After the revolution, Russia had a parliament. The liberals soon dominated the parliament. They continued to press for more political freedom from the autocratic Czar.

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