Reasons for discontent HO2

Use Page 5 of the text book

What aspects of the way that Russia was governed do you think made people most angry?
Peasants
Around 85% of the population of the Russian empire were peasants
Population growth meant peasants needed more land, but almost all were to poor
to buy it famines in the 1890’s and 1901 killed thousands Russians were very shocked
at how badly the government dealt with the famine, the word famine
was banned from Russian newspapers

Workers
Russia had only really started industrialising in the 1890’s
Number of workers small
Conditions bad
Long hours
Low pay
Overcrowded diseased barracks
Middle Class Liberals
Wanted change
Frightened of radicals
Non violent
Replace tsar with constitutional system
Everyone had rights
Nobility

Peasants

Hungry for land overtaxed poverty Industrial Workers

Terrible working and living conditions

Low pay

unemployment

Radicals

Wanted peasants and Police State

workers to take power for
No one could feel free
themselves Reasons for because the police were
discontent in 1905 always watching
Nationalities

Parts of the empire wanted to be free Middle Classes

from Russian oppression
No say in how Russia was governed