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Does the history of Russia between 1905 and 1917 suggest that peaceful evolution towards constitutional government was possible?
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Does the history of Russia between 1905 and 1917 suggest that peaceful evolution towards constitutional government was possible? The October Manifesto of 1905 created for the first time a form of organization, which may be recognised as a legal political party. These 'parties' were split between Social Democrats (Bolshevik and Menshevik groups), Socialist Revolutionary groups, Liberals (such as the Kadets) and the rightists. Each socialist facet of the political proto-system, and also Tsar Nicholas II, promoted some form of radical social and political change within Russia. The Social Democrats assumed a Marxist viewpoint that a bourgeois revolution would beget a working class proletariat uprising in the very near future; the Socialist Revolutionaries were of the opinion that their strength from the October 'victory' had to be consolidated and used to build up a revolutionary support base; and the Tsar was intent on dispensing with politicians and rescinding his 'unnecessary' weakness shown...
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