On January 9, 1905 (Bloody Sunday) in St. Petersburg, around 150,000 lower-class Russian citizens peacefully demonstrated for better working and living conditions but were fired upon by the military, killing 40 people and injuring hundreds, which sparked further violent demonstrations and marked the beginning of the Russian Revolution. The revolution climaxed in October and September after Tsar Nicholas failed to take the uprising seriously and address citizens' grievances around unfair treatment by the nobility and corrupt government that taxed lower classes more with few benefits in return.

2. The Russian revolution
started on January 9th 1905,
which was a Sunday.
The “bloody Sunday”
started in St. Petersburg
(Russia).

3. Many Russian citizens ( mostly peasants and the
worker class) were treaded unfairly. The type of
government got corrupted by the nobility and
tsars; the lower classes had to work a lot but
didn’t get a lot out of it, the government put
higher taxes on the lower classes then on the
upper classes.

4. On January 9th about 150,000 people of the lower
class started the revolution as a peaceful
demonstration for better working and living
conditions. But the Russian government felt
attacked so it send back the military, which killed
about 40 people and injured many hundred
people.

5. Later on that same day, people started a more
violent demonstration; the citizens broke into rich
peoples houses, destroyed many public area and
fought with stones and sticks. The demonstration
turned into a revolution.

6. Tsar Nicholas got informed about the starting
revolution early enough. The world expected
stronger leader ship from him, but he wasn’t able
to meet these expectations
because he didn’t take the
up coming revolution serious.
In December he shut down the
Workers council -> but the soviets
(worker council) started fighting
Against the bolshewikies

7. After the revolution climaxed on October and
September, a middle class social group gained
power in Russia. Russian society stopped
working because millions of workers started
protesting.
The October manifesto, were reforms and rules
including ; civil liberties, limited
monarchy, legalization of trade unions and
different political parties

8. After the October manifesto comes out the
conservative government began to react with
violence and fighting.
There was a big division among conservatives
and revolutionaries in Russia