Short Note on ‘Bloody Sunday’
The incident of Bloody Sunday in 1905 was significant because it initiated a series of events which came to be known as the Revolution of 1905.
Strikes took place all over the country and student walk-outs forced universities to close down.
Professionals and middle class workers demand for a constituent assembly led to the creation of Duma or Russian Parliament.
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A new form of organisation called ‘Soviets’ developed. They became instruments of political power and played a decisive role in the upheaval of 1917.