Russian Revolution (Logan's Earth)

Russian Revolution
Bloody Sunday Demonstrations (1905)
Date 22 January 1905 – 13 February 1908 Location Russian Empire
Belligerents
Russian Soviet Labour Republic Russian Social Democratic Labour Party Social Revolutionary Party Union of Russian Anarchists	Russian Empire	Ukrainian People's Republic Democratic Republic of Kryvia Transcaucasian Federative Republic Emirate of Bukhara Empire of Great Manchuria Ukrainian People's Republic Khanate of Khiva Emirate of Turkestan (Ottoman Puppet) Baltic Federation
Commanders and leaders
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Viktor Mikhailovich Chernov Lev Davidovich Bronstein Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili Georgy Apollonovich Gapon Ivan Vasilievich Babushkin Yakov Mikhailovich Sverdlov Julius Martov Pavel Axelrod Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin	Tsar Nicholas II Sergei Yulyevich Witte Dmitri Feodorovich Trepov Sergey Semyonovich Khabalov	(WIP)

The Russian Revolution was a political and societal revolutionary war that began on 22 January 1905. A wave of mass political and social unrest then began to spread across the vast areas of the Russian Empire. The unrest was directed primarily against the Tsar, the nobility, and the ruling class. It included worker strikes, peasant unrest, and military mutinies. The 1905 revolution was mostly set off by the international humiliation that resulted from the Russian defeat in the Russo-Japanese War, which ended in the same year. Calls for revolution were intensified by the growing realisation by a variety of sectors of society of the need for reform.

How the Russian Revolution Happened

In December 1904, a strike occurred at the Putilov plant (a railway and artillery supplier) in St. Petersburg. Sympathy strikes in other parts of the city raised the number of strikers to 150,000 workers in 382 factories. By 21 January [O.S. 8 January] 1905, the city had no electricity and newspaper distribution was halted. All public areas were declared closed. Semi-Controversial Orthodox priest Georgy Gapon, who headed a police-sponsored workers' association, led a huge workers' procession to the Winter Palace to deliver a petition to the Tsar on Sunday, 22 January [O.S. 9 January] 1905. The troops guarding the Palace were ordered to tell the demonstrators not to pass a certain point, according to Sergei Witte, and at some point, troops opened fire on the demonstrators, causing between 200 (according to Witte) and 1,000 deaths. The event became known as Bloody Sunday, and is considered by many scholars as the start of the active phase of the revolution. In June and July 1905, there were many peasant uprisings in which peasants seized land and tools. The Supreme Workers' and Peasants' Soviet of Russia was created as a legislature, made up of around 750 delegates across the Russian Empire. An Election was held in early 1906, with the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party winning, with Julius Martov and Vladimir Lenin taking joint-control of the Soviet. The Soviet voted to form a new government, the Russian Soviet Labour Republic, and the capital was placed in St. Petersburg. The Russian Soviet Labour Republic, in response to the popular demand for political representation, introduced a progressive constitution that guaranteed civil liberties, universal suffrage, and the separation of powers. This constitutional framework aimed to establish a democratic centralist and inclusive political system, allowing for diverse voices to be heard. The government of the Soviet prioritized industrial development, investing in modernization and technological advancements. The rights of workers were also a central focus, with the implementation of labor laws, improved working conditions, and the establishment of workers' councils to ensure their active participation in decision-making processes.