The Russian Revolution of 1905 was both anti-government and undirected violence against its Tsar. It was not controlled or managed. The causes were simple, freedom/democracy, food/jobs, which were led by the Socialist Revolutionary party and the workers, influenced by Marxism, were represented in the Bolshevik and Menshevik wings of the Social Democratic Labor party. The revolution was the culmination of a long period of repression and unrest. Since Peter the Great, the Tsars increasingly …showed first 75 words of 322 total…

…showed last 75 words of 322 total…forced the government to promise the establishment of a consultative Duma, or assembly, elected by limited franchise. These facts caused the Russian Revolution of 1905 began in St. Petersburg on Jan. 22 when troops fired on a defenseless crowd of worker, who, led by a priest, where marching to the Winter Palace to petition Tsar Nicholas II. This "bloody Sunday" was followed in succeeding months by a series of strikes, riots assassinations, naval mutinies, and peasant outbreaks.