The Russian Revolt of 1905
The Russian revolt of 1905 included mass political unrest, which in turn, included terrorism, strikes, military mutinies, and urban demonstrations. This led the tzarist government to establish a limited constitutional monarchy including a duma which a parliament.
The Use of Democracy
The use of democracy is designed to prevent the worst of the above. The educated use practice of democracy can prevent the most of the negative and bad imaginable.
Nicolas II
The October Manifesto of 1905 in Russia was issued by tzar Nicolas II. Sergei Witte was influential in its production. I pledged to grant civil liberties to the people including: freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and freedom of assembly and also provided broad participation in the Duma. No law could come into force without the consent of the duma. The tzar retained veto power.
Nicolas II was Nicolai II Alexandrovich Romanov. He was the last tzar of the nearly300 years of the Romanov dynasty rule of Russia. Sergei Witte was a Russian statesman who served as first prime minister of the Russian empire, replacing the tzar as head of government. Witte had a good understanding of the use of republicanism, but may have lacked enough understanding of all the powers extent in Russia.
Organized Powers
The still well organized powers in Russia brutally suppressed constitutional law, congressional power, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, participation in the Duma, and similar activities.
American People
The America people still have much to learn about the practice of republicanism and democracy. Americans can still co-operate socially, but are now finding it difficult to organize effectively.
Governance Was Collapsing
Tsar Nicolas II abdicated in 1917. The Russian people were unprepared to govern, governance was collapsing. Powerful people tried to use war to pull the country together. They failed. The people began to look to the far right and far left. The happy medium, the golden mean, was lost. The had to little practice a self-governance.
The Bolsheviks
The Bolsheviks were a small well organized group of persons with some understanding of governance took power. They were mostly a small faction of the Marxist Russian Democratic Labor Party. The were well organized and founded the Soviet Union.
Self-Governance
We have more to learn about self-governance. The Russians had a lot to learn of republican governance and still do. They have not practiced ongoing self-care. We seem to have forgotten how to practice republican governance much less democratic governance.
The Russian People
The Russian people did withstand counter revolution, experimental economic police, rapid expansion, war, Stalin, and more war. It was brutal, brutal do, in great part, to the lack of practice in governance of large parts of the Russian people as much as to any resistance.
As time went on, imperialism and capitalism did not seem to work for them and they had not learned how to work a republic or a democracy. They seemed to have their idea of democracy a social democracy to make it included all of them.
The great mass of the Russian people seem to have moved from being peons to being pawns. Oh, when will they ever learn. When will we ever learn to play our own game. When will we learn to take care of ourselves politically, socially, civically, civicly? (civicly should be a word.)
There is a lot for us to learn and to remember. Luckily there are plenty of us to do so and we still remember a lot about co-operation.
Thank you for reading.
rcs