The 1905 Revolution: Bloody Sunday to the October Manifesto

Before 1917, there was 1905. This episode explores the first Russian Revolution — a nationwide uprising that shook the tsarist autocracy to its core. Lucas and Luna trace the path from the Bloody Sunday massacre in January, when Father Gapon led peaceful workers to the Winter Palace only to be met with gunfire, through the summer wave of strikes and peasant unrest, to the October General Strike that forced Nicholas II to issue the October Manifesto. Along the way they examine the role of the newly formed soviets, the rise of Sergei Witte as chief minister, the brutal suppression of the December uprising in Moscow, and the Fundamental Laws that gutted the promised reforms. How close did the tsar come to losing everything in 1905? And why did the revolution ultimately fail — only to return twelve years later with far greater force?

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