Counter Revolution

• Despite the October manifesto's full promise of 'full civil rights' Trepov ordered troops to 'fire no blanks and spare no bullets' in forcing striking workers back to the factories
• In the final months of 1905 the Jews whom the right wing associated with 'socialists and revolutionaries' suffered in terrible pogroms while gangs were sent to round up and flog the peasants in a bid to restore order
• On December 3rd the headquarters of the St Petersburg Soviet was surrounded and its leaders arrested tride and subsequently exiled to Siberia. This weakened the revolutionary movement in the capital and gradually the authorities regained control
• However there was still a further month of street warfare in Moscow and troops and heavy artillery from St Petersburg had to be dispatched to restore order. There were outbreaks of trouble in the countryside for a further two years