HISTORY
WORLD WAR I AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
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Bloody Sunday
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pogrom
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March Revolution
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World War I
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -When the procession of workers reached the Winter Palace it was attacked by the police and the Cossacks. Over 100 workers were killed and about 300 wounded. This incident came to be known as Bloody Sunday.
Detailed explanation-3: -On January 22, 1905, a group of workers led by the radical priest Georgy Apollonovich Gapon marched to the czar’s Winter Palace in St. Petersburg to make their demands. Imperial forces opened fire on the demonstrators, killing and wounding hundreds.