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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  • Poogona [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    That's what these particles do, they jiggle

    The idea is that with a very simple equation that governs their movement, (essentially "move back and forth unless they are near another particle which changes their trajectory a little" so they try not to collide) amazing patterns emerge that in some ways mimic structures like cells. All the "life" stuff is a little sensationalist but it does an incredible job of showing how complexity emerges out of extremely simple rules and interactions.

    This site just lets you alter the rules a little, so that maybe the particles don't perfectly jiggle or that they don't avoid each other as well. They behave really differently with small changes.

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Just gonna take a few rules and you know, emerge some complexity.

      There was an ancient game called sim-life that was all about animals jiggling and changing directory. Iirc the gameplay was a lot fo trying to design an ecosystem that wouldn't snowball in to collapse.

      • Poogona [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        Yeah yeah "game of life" stuff had a short blast of popularity back in the day according to my dad, but that was from an era when everyone was obsessed with lame-ass selfish gene theory. My hope is that these kinds of studies could help us study human behavior on the species-wide scale some day in my lifetime, or maybe help us model the earliest biological interactions in another planet's ecosystem or something cool like that