Ben Dunn TO WHAT EXTENT DO YOU AGREE WITH TROTSKY'S ASSESSMENT OF THE 1905 REVOLUTION? Trotsky wrote, "Although with a few broken ribs, Tsarism came out of the experience of 1905 alive and strong". Russia in 1905 under the autocratic rule of Tsar Nicholas ll was becoming increasingly unstable and the government was unable or unwilling to tackle the people's grievances. Lower class people in the industrial centres and in rural Russia had an awful way of life …showed first 75 words of 1973 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1973 total…others like him were not even in the country and other potential adversaries were, for the time being, appeased. The time was not right for a full-scale revolution and the uprisings were really no more than a wake up call for Tsardom. However, it was the beginning of the end and 12 years later after the Great War had further dented the confidence of the Russian people, the time came for revolution and everything changed forever.