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W??kn?ss?s in th? Russi?n gov?rnm?nt ?nd ?conomy ?t th? st?rt of th? tw?nti?th c?ntury m??nt discont?nt gr?du?lly gr?w with most Russi?n p?opl?. Work?rs w?r? p?id v?ry littl? ?nd oft?n h?d to work ov?r 11 hours ? d?y. Only h?lf of th? f?rming l?nd w?s own?d by th?15 million p??s?nt f?mili?s, whil? th? oth?r h?lf w?nt to just 300,000 l?ndlords. In ?ddition, th? Russi?ns lost th? Russo-J?p?n?s? w?r, ?nd this humili?ting d?f??t w?s bl?m?d on th? Ts?r ?nd his gov?rnm?nt. Wh?n prot?stors m?rch?d to th? Ts?r's p?l?c? in St P?t?rsburg in 1905 with ? p?tition for full civil lib?rti?s ?nd b?tt?r rights, soldi?rs fir?d upon th?m ?nd 1000 ?r? thought to h?v? b??n kill?d. "Bloody Sund?y", ?s it w?s c?ll?d, prompt?d ? w?v? of prot?sts ?nd th? ?ss?ssin?tion of th? gov?rnor of Moscow, Duk? S?rg?i. In r?spons? th? Ts?r did introduc? d?mocr?tic r?forms th?t includ?d th? s?tting up of th?...

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