1. Modernization was needed to make Russia a world power and increase its military strength. Also, industrialization would prevent peasants from starving, and factories would give unemployed people places to work.
2. IF all the peasents lived in cities, it would be easier for them to make a concerted revolt. The peasents might need to be better educated, which made them more likely to challenge the Tzar. Most industrialized countries at the time had parliaments.
3. Witte invested in railways and other industries.
4. It was not successful because in 1902 there were peasent revolts and there was wide-spread violence due to a bad harvest.
1. Longterm causes: Alienated intelligentsia, revolutionaries, opression of minorities, opression of peasents, and oppression of workers. SHort-term causes: Bloody sunday
2. The catalyst for the 1905 revolution was the Russo-Japanese war. The war caused shortages in food and fuel, as well as high prices and unemployment.
3. Wide-spread strikes throughout the country forced it to a stand-still. The Tsar had lost control of the country.
4. A parliament that would be elected by the people, civil rights, the right to form political parties, an end to press censorship.
a)duma
b)the duma was fake,
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