The Russian Revolution of 1905, also known as the First Russian Revolution, was a wave of mass political and social unrest that spread through vast areas of the Russian Empire. It included labor strikes, peasant unrest, military mutinies, and the formation of grassroots councils (soviets) of people's power. It is widely felt that the 1905 revolution set the stage for the 1917 Russian Revolutions, and for Bolshevism to emerge as a distinct political movement. Lenin later called it "The Great Dress Rehearsal", without which the "victory of the October Revolution in 1917 would have been impossible".

The 1905 revolution was spurred by the Russian defeat in the Russo-Japanese War, which ended in the same year, but also by the growing realization by a variety of sectors of society of the need for reform in the face of agrarian crisis, economic stagnation, and political repression. However, it is generally felt that the detonator of the insurrection were the events of “Bloody Sunday”, in which a mass demonstration -led by priest and police agent, Georgy Gapon- which had sought to petition the Tsar for relief, was fired upon by the troops, killing hundreds of marchers.

There followed clashes in St. Petersburg, and spreading unrest throughout the rest of the Russian Empire. Strikes spread in three great waves: January, October, and November. In June the crew of the battleship Potemkin famously mutinied against their officers. There were further clashes in St. Petersburg in December.

The rebellion did not overthrow the autocracy, but by late 1905 the Tsar felt obligated by events to agree to constitutional reforms, including the establishment of the State Duma, a multi-party political system, and the Russian Constitution of 1906.

Documents Russian Revolution of 1905

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  • Stoatmilk [he/him]
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    11 months ago

    Trying to google if dogs in China understand the difference between commands with only a different tone, and wording the search extra carefully so the CIA agent assigned to track me doesn't think I'm wondering how they teach dogs Chinese

    • buckykat [none/use name]
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      11 months ago

      Dogs absolutely understand tone in english why wouldn't they understand it in chinese?

      • Stoatmilk [he/him]
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        11 months ago

        I mean like, if I went to China and said to some dog "左" (zuǒ, left) instead of "坐" (zuò, sit), would the dog be confused about what I am trying to say?

        • GinAndJuche
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          11 months ago

          Dogs have been selectively bred for thousands of years to vibe with humans. I think they understand.

          • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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            11 months ago

            They have had 40k years to learn. That's a lot of years. And they hang out with people who use all kinds of languages, not just indo-european ones.

    • viva_la_juche [they/them, any]
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      11 months ago

      It’d take some heavier study to be sure but I’d imagine dogs don’t have much capacity for distinguishing phonemic tonality. They recognize “tone” as in anger and happy and stuff for sure but their brains aren’t really tuned for speech in that way. They’d probably pick up on a few things taking in body language and other stuff into account as well but I doubt their understanding of human speech is sophisticated enough for differentiating one tone from another. At least broadly maybe some super smart border collie could learn idk