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"A strike at the Putilov industrial plant spread, and by mid-January, 80,000 workers were idle and the city was without electricity or newspapers. Father Georgi Gapon, an orthodox priest who had founded a workers organization, announced a demonstration to the tsars Winter Palace in January 1905 to petition Nicholas II for an end to the war and the restoration of the eight-hour day. . . . Most historians believe around 1000 died. The slaughter caused outrage, transforming the strike wave into the 1905 revolution." [Furtado: 1001 Days] "The Russian Revolution of 1905 was a wave of mass political and social unrest that spread through vast areas of the Russian Empire, some of which was directed at the government. 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 not only spurred by the Russian defeat in the Russo-Japanese war (1904–1905), but also the growing realisation of the need for reform . . . While the Tsar managed to keep his rule, the events foreshadowed those of the Russian revolution twelve years later . . ." [Wikipedia]