Jun 27, 2025
This map illustrates the Russian Revolution of 1905, a wave of political and social unrest across the Russian Empire following defeat in the Russo-Japanese War (1904-5). The revolution was sparked by Bloody Sunday on 22 January 1905, when peaceful protesters marching to present a petition to Tsar Nicholas II (reign 1894-1917) were fired upon in St. Petersburg. What followed were mass strikes, peasant...