Peasants
Workers
Middle Classes
Radicals
Ethnic Minorities
Police State
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Peasants - "Less Tax, More Help"
85% of Russia were peasants.
Population growth - needed more land, but too poor to buy it.
High taxation 'redemption payments.'
Had to produce surplus grain no matter what.
Famines in 1890s and 1901 killed thousands.
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Workers - "Conditions Must Change"
Increasing industrialisation and urbanisation.
Dangerous conditions, long hours, low pay. Overcrowded, dirty living conditions.
Trade unionism banned.
Economic downturn in early 1900s, so unemployment rose.
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Middle Class - "We Deserve To Have a Say"
Middle class business owners were unhappy with their limited power.
They were liberals, wanted a constitution that guaranteed rights to everyone, fair legal system.
Afraid of radical revolutionaries.
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Radicals - "A Revolution Has to Happen"
Proletariat (lower classes) should rise up and overthrow the government.
Russian Social Democratic Party followed Marxist ideals.
Mensheviks and Bolsheviks.
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Ethnic Minorities
Ethnic minorities were oppressed.
Jewish people persecuted by State sanctioned Pogroms.
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Card 2
Front
85% of Russia were peasants.
Population growth - needed more land, but too poor to buy it.
High taxation 'redemption payments.'
Had to produce surplus grain no matter what.
Famines in 1890s and 1901 killed thousands.
Back
Peasants - "Less Tax, More Help"
Card 3
Front
Increasing industrialisation and urbanisation.
Dangerous conditions, long hours, low pay. Overcrowded, dirty living conditions.
Trade unionism banned.
Economic downturn in early 1900s, so unemployment rose.
Back
Card 4
Front
Middle class business owners were unhappy with their limited power.
They were liberals, wanted a constitution that guaranteed rights to everyone, fair legal system.
Afraid of radical revolutionaries.
Back
Card 5
Front
Proletariat (lower classes) should rise up and overthrow the government.
Russian Social Democratic Party followed Marxist ideals.
Mensheviks and Bolsheviks.
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