history

• There weren't many factories in Russia, and the few that existed were mostly near places like St. Petersburg and Moscow


  In the 1890s, more factories started to appear because Russia built more railways, and other countries invested money in Russia.
• because of the new factories, russia started to produce more steel and coal.
• the workshops where the government supervised had minimum wages with less working hours but the small shops still worked for hours without sufficient wage. the workers would unite and protest if the government did not agree with their conditions.
• in the countryside, most of the people were peasants and cultivated crops
• all political parties were illegal in russia till 1914. but the russian social democratic workers party was inspired by marx's ideas.. However, because of government policing, it had to operate illegally.
• Some Russian socialists thought that the way Russian peasants shared land from time to time made them natural socialists.
• these socialists formed a new party called the Socialist Revolutionary Party. They wanted to make sure peasants had rights and that land owned by rich nobles should begiven to the peasants But not all socialists agreed on this.
• vladmir lenin realized that not all the peasants were poor. some were rich and some owned land. because of this difference, not all could become socialists
• The party was also split on how they should organize themselves. Lenin wanted a strict and disciplined party with high-quality members. On the other hand, there were others, called the Mensheviks, who thought the party should be open to everyone