Bloody Sunday (1905)
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Bloody Sunday, also known as Red Sunday, was the series of events on Sunday, 22 January 1905 in St Petersburg, Russia, when demonstrators, led by Father Georgy Gapon, were fired upon by soldiers of th
Crowd of petitioners, led by Father Gapon, near Narva Gate, St. Petersburg
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Georgy Gapon, a Russian Orthodox priest, led the workers' procession to present a petition to the tsar on January 22 [O.S. January 9] 1905, known as Bloody Sunday
Still from the Soviet movie Devyatoe Yanvarya ("9th of January") (1925) showing a line of armed soldiers facing demonstrators at the approaches to the Winter Palace in St Petersburg
Soviet painting of the Bloody Sunday massacre in St Petersburg
Russian Revolution
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The Russian Revolution was a period of political and social change in Russia, starting in 1917. This period saw Russia abolish its monarchy and adopt a socialist form of government following two succe
Bloody Sunday (1905)
…historians such as Lionel Kochan in his book Russia in Revolution 1890–1918 view the events of Bloody Sunday to be one of the key events which led to the Russian Revolution of 1917. After the emancipation of the serfs in 1861 by Tsar Alexander II of Russia, there emerged a new peasant working class in Russia's industrializing…
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After the capture of the Winter Palace 26 October 1917
Lavr Kornilov troops lay down their arms