Highlight the impact of Bloody Sunday which took place in Russian society

Highlight the impact of Bloody Sunday which took place in Russian society.

Bloody Sunday started a series of events that came to be known as the 1905 Revolution.

The impacts of the events of ‘Bloody Sunday’ on Russian society were as follows :

  1. Strikes took place all over the country and universities closed down.
  2. Students staged walkouts, complaining about the lack of civil liberties.
  3. Lawyers, doctors, engineers and other middle class workers established the Union of Unions and demanded a Constituent Assembly.
  4. A large number of trade unions and factory committees of factory workers came into existence. But after 1905, they worked unofficially, as they were declared illegal.
  5. The Tsar bowed to pressure of various groups and allowed the creation of an elected Consultative Parliament or Duma. However, he dismissed the first and re-elected the second one. Later, he changed the voting laws and packed the third Duma with conservative politicians while liberals and revolutionaries were kept out.