Ivan Vasiliev3 January 1905
Putilov dismissals help ignite the strike wave before Bloody Sunday.
Russia · Revolution / Revolution of Russia. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
Putilov dismissals help ignite the strike wave before Bloody Sunday.
Attempts to contain the strike and petition movement before the march.
Permits a petition but tries to restrict the workers' route.
Encourages women and families to join the peaceful procession.
Is absent from the capital as troops confront petitioning workers.
Military repression helps turn protest into revolution.
Bloody Sunday turns reform pressure into national crisis.
Earlier police-union experiments collapse under the crisis.
Denounces the shootings and is arrested during the aftermath.
Is arrested after condemning the Bloody Sunday shootings.
Interprets the massacre as the opening of revolution.
Mensheviks analyse the massacre as a mass political awakening.
Liberal opposition gains strength after the massacre.
Becomes associated with repression after the massacre.
Is dismissed after the crisis caused by Bloody Sunday.
Troops fire on workers marching to the Winter Palace.
Uses the crisis to press demands for constitutional reform.
Warns that repression alone cannot stabilise the empire.
Returns to Russia after the revolutionary crisis begins.
Later leads the Soviet born from the revolutionary wave.
Interprets the new Soviet movement as a revolutionary opportunity.
Builds Bolshevik organisation during the upheaval after January.
Sees terrorist politics gain support after the massacre.
Called by the Tsar to address unrest after Bloody Sunday.
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