Write a short note on 1905 revolution in Russia
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It included worker strikes, peasant unrest, and military mutinies. It led to Constitutional Reform including the establishment of the State Duma, the multi-party system, and the Russian Constitution of 1906. The 1905 revolution was spurred by Russian defeat in the Russo-Japanese war (1904-05).
This all began in Petrograd on Jan. 22 when troops fired on a defenseless crowd of workers, led by a priest, were marching towards the Winter Palace which led to many casualities and this event was known as "Blody Sunday" and in succeeding months it was followed by a series of strikes, riots, assassinations, naval mutinies, and peasant outbreaks. These disorders, coupled with the disaster of the Russo-Japanese War (1904–5), which revealed the corruption and incompetence of the czarist regime, forced the government to ensure the establishment of a consultative duma. This was The Russian Revolution of 1905.