Why did the Tsar survive the 1905 revolution but not the 1917 revolution?

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Why did the Tsar survive the 1905 revolution but not the 1917 revolution?

Introduction

        Many different tsars have ruled over Russia since 1547. The tsars were like kings,  they had the power to do as they pleased.  All the tsars dealt with any problems with an immediate, forceful strike against them.  

When Tsar Nicholas II  came to power he appeared to be a good ruler, he was hard working and loyal to his family. But he also lacked in confidence and love for the job.  He confessed he didn’t know how to rule a country.  During tsar Nicholas II’s reign he suffered many embassising events such as the two wars.    This lead to the tsar’s popularity to decrease.  Nicholas II survived the first revelution but not the 1917 revolution for the following reasons.

The 1905 revolution was wide spread affecting many people and killing many.  There were strikes and riots in the towns and cities all over the country, and peasants turned against the landowners in the countryside.  The riots and strikes were mostly from civilians who wanted the tsar to change their living and working conditions; the revolution was sparked of by the events of bloody Sunday.  The aims of the 1905 revelution were for civil liberty, a Duma and for all laws to be made by the Duma

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The 1917 revolution was not as widespread as the 1905 revolution but this time members included civilians, deserted soldiers and members of the government.  The revolution involved strikes and demonstrations mainly around the city of Petrograd (the capital of Russia).  The demands of the revolution were better living and working conditions as well as other things, and above all the people wanted the tsar to resign.  The Tsar was generally unliked by his government and armed forces as well as Russia’s people.

The October manifesto was a list of rights put forward by the protestors of 1905 that the ...

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