How Far Do You Agree with the View That Bloody Sunday Was the Most Important Cause of the 1905 Revolution?

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I agree to an extent, that Bloody Sunday was the most important cause of the 1905 revolution because it acted as a trigger for the revolution, however there are other factors to be taken into account, as Bloody Sunday was also caused by economic factors, political factors, social factors and other short-term events, such as the Russo-Japanese war. Economic factors played a key role in causing the 1905 Revolution. One economic factor that helped cause Bloody Sunday was Witte’s economic reforms; he placed extra taxation on the peasantry and encouraged the rapid growth of towns and cities. The extra taxation led to great resentment from the peasantry who began to support radicals such as the SRs, who played a part in the 1905 Revolution. These taxations also led to strikes and demonstrations becoming commonplace so could have caused Bloody Sunday itself. Witte’s economic reforms also led to another economic factor that caused the 1905 Revolution, the industrialisation of Russia. High speed industrialisation of Russia led to urbanisation causing a high density of people living in the towns and cities. This aided a social factor, the creation of a new urban working class and led to poor working and living conditions in Russia, this caused even greater resentment of the government and helped the formation of the SDs who also had a part to play in the 1905 Revolution. This high density of people living in towns and cities made it easier for revolutionary parties easier to rally and less easy to crush than when most people lived in more rural areas. This is because revolts in rural areas could be easily stopped by a massacre of the people by the armed forces without any outcry from the people as no other people would know how it had happened; this was the problem with Bloody Sunday. My overall judgement is that economic factors played a key role in the set-up of the
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