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

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Why did Tsarism survive the 1905 revolution but not the 1917 Tsarist Russia had had many problems. The Tsars was strictly autocratic and yielded absolute power; but his government was inefficient and corrupt, reforms were unsuccessful and reversed by succeeding Tsars. At a time where other western European powers were advancing in science, Russia was left behind in its firm, age-old traditions. There was widespread discontent among all the classes of Russian society and Lenin, the founding father of the Russian Soviet believed that Russia needed two revolutions before a communist state could be ushered: one from feudal to industrial and then from industrial to communist. The revolution did not take place overnight. It took almost 17years for the Russians to topple the Tsarist system. The gap between the rich and the poor was too wide. There was no middle class, no natural leaders of the society. Industrialization had rapidly spread and while the factory owners kept accumulating wealth, the factory workers were rendered poor and poor. They were made to work inhumane hours and conditions. Most of the people were outraged at this exploitation but had no means to vent their fury. There were 20 or so national minorities like the Armenians, the Fins, the Latvians, and the Poles etc who resented 'Russification'. The Jews felt prosecuted under the" pogroms ". The revolutionaries actually encouraged mass discontent in order to speed up the revolution; this was one reason why they didn't like reforms. The Russo-Japanese war finished in 1905 and by the treaty of Portsmouth in the same year, Russia didn't have to pay Japan any indemnities. This meant that there were no additional taxes on the peasants to compensate for the diminishing state
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revenues. The soldiers were available to keep law and order and were moved away from the Eastern border. Also, losing the war to an Asian nation was a national humiliation and the Russians were united by this defeat. The main reason why the revolution of 1905 wasn't successful is because there were so many doubts, in the minds of the disunited. For example people wondered if Father Gapon was really a priest or a secret Russian secret police agent. People also wondered about the Tsars involvement, though he wasn't there personally on that fateful  Sunday, his guards fired on the ...

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