HISTORY
WORLD WAR I AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
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Gave people basic civil rights and created the Duma
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Looked to Rasputin for advice
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Crushed the rebellion with force
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Killed Lenin
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Detailed explanation-1: -This event became known as Bloody Sunday and is seen as one of the key causes of the 1905 Revolution. The aftermath brought about a short-lived revolution in which the Tsar lost control of large areas of Russia. The revolution failed but it served as a serious warning of what might happen in the future.
Detailed explanation-2: -By the spring of 1915 the Duma had become a focal point of opposition to the imperial regime. At the outset of the March Revolution of 1917, it established the Provisional Committee of the Duma, which formed the first Provisional Government and accepted the abdication of Nicholas II.
Detailed explanation-3: -Bloody Sunday, Russian Krovavoye Voskresenye, (January 9 [January 22, New Style], 1905), massacre in St. Petersburg, Russia, of peaceful demonstrators marking the beginning of the violent phase of the Russian Revolution of 1905.
Detailed explanation-4: -The killing of people, many of whom had seen the Tsar as their “Little Father", resulted in a surge of bitterness towards Nicholas and his autocratic rule. A widely quoted reaction was “we no longer have a Tsar".