Causes

• Russo-Japanese War

  • Life for working class got worse
  • Food supplies to cities got broke down
  • Factories ran out of materials
  • High taxes to pay for this war
  • Eventually lost war
• Bloody Sunday

  • Hundreds of Petrograd workers took part in a peaceful march led by Father Gapon, to the Winter Palace
• Bloody Sunday

  • To present the Tsar with petition that included:
  • 8 hour working days,
  • minimum wage,
  • parliament,
  • equality,
  • freedom of press/religion/assembly,
  • end to Russo-Japanese War
• Bloody Sunday

  • When the peaceful march arrived at the Winter Palace, soldiers opened fire;
  • 96 died,
  • 333 wounded
  • People convinced the Tsar no longer cared
• Ideas of Karl Marx

  • Communist ideas
  • Believed the rich class shouldn't exist
• Working Conditions in Factories

  • Long hours,
  • Dangerous working conditions,
  • Low pay
  • Not enough to live on
• Government Reaction to Protests

  • Protesters suppressed
• No freedom or rights

  • Peasants treated unfairly
  • No parliament to speak for people's opinion