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The Democratic Party split itseft into Bolsheviks and Mensheviks -
The Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan fought the Russo-Japanese War during 1904 and 1905 over rival imperial ambitions in Manchuria and Korea.The major theatres of military operations were the Liaodong Peninsula and Mukden in Southern Manchuria, and the seas around Korea, Japan, and the Yellow Sea. -
A crowd of protesters came to the Winter Palace to give a petition to the Tsar, the soldiers opened fire. The Tsar lost the respect of the ordinary people of Russia.A wave of strikes spred to other cities. -
This offered people an elected parliament called the Duma, the right to free speech and the right to form political parties -
The First and the Second Dumas were more democratic and represented a greater number of national types than their successors.The Third Duma was dominated by gentry, landowners and businessmen. The Fourth Duma held five sessions; it existed until 2 March 1917, and was formally dissolved on 6 October 1917. -
He came down hard on strikers,protesters and revolutionaries.He allowed wealthier peasants, the kulaks, to opt out of the mir communes and buy up land.He also tried to boost Russia´sindustries. -
Stolypin traveled to Kiev despite police warnings that an assassination plot was afoot as there had already been 10 attempts to kill him. On 14 September 1911, there was a performance of Rimsky-Korsakov's The Tale of Tsar Saltan at the Kiev Opera House -
The Tsar seemed genuinely popular with his people and there was an instant display of patriotism.Anti-government strikes and demonstrations were abandoned.