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  • Bloody Sunday: On January 22nd 1905, the Tsar ordered his army (the Cossacks) to gun down protestors who, led by Father Gapon, had come to the Winter Palace, to peacefully ask for better living and working conditions.

Short-term causes

  • Relaxed Censorship
  • Plehve - an minister whose policies were so unpopular that the opposition parties decided to work together to overthrow the government
  • Japanese war - war between Russia and Japan, in which thousands of Russian soldiers died.

Long-term causes

  • The autocratic and incompetent leadership of Tsar Nicolas II
  • Awful living and working conditions compounded with a lack of opportunity and education
  • Opposition parties, namely Cadets, Mensheviks, Bolsheviks and Socialist Revolutionaries
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