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266: 772:'s apartment—bombs were made in the study and food for the revolutionaries in the kitchen. Gorky disliked the Bolsheviks' dogmatic collectivism but saw them as allies against backward peasants and the Tsar. The Joint Council of Volunteer Fighting Squads armed the workers with 800 stockpiled weapons. They constructed barricades from whatever they could find, including overturned trams. 2,000 men held the barricades with 200 guns. The police tried to dismantle them but failed. Students and even some 733:"Victory?!...That for us is not the point at all...We should not harbour any illusions, we are realists, and let no-one imagine that we have to win. For that we are still too weak. The point is not about victory but about giving the regime a shake and attracting the masses to the movement. That is the whole point. And to say that because we cannot win we should not stage an insurrection-that is simply the talk of cowards." 349: 77: 36: 322: 179: 757:, troops continued to shell the building from the afternoon of 3 December until the early morning of 4 December. The shelling resulted in most workers' deaths. The people of Moscow planned a strike on 5 December and called a general strike on 7 December. The strike remained peaceful until 9 December. 786:
December 11: The Bolsheviks issued a handbook on street fighting. The military wing of the Moscow Committee of the Social-Democratic Workers' Party sent out a pamphlet to its members during the uprising: "Comrades, our top-priority task is to hand power in the city over to the people. In the section
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Nicholas II's government knew an uprising was brewing and allowed it to come to fruition as a justification to crush the revolutionaries. The Tsar wrote to his mother: "Although the events in Moscow are very distressing and cause me much pain, it seems to me that they are for the best."
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there was limited hope for a socialist revolution, but the rebels in Moscow could have taken the Kremlin. They failed because each rebel area looked after its own and did not consider the city as a whole. The main rebel district was
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remained in government hands. This allowed the Semyonovsky Regiment to arrive from St. Petersburg on 15 December and destroy the uprising. The Moscow garrison remained unused due to the government's fear of a mutiny.
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December 12: Six out of seven railway stations and many districts were under revolutionary control. Fifty officers were seized as they arrived by train. Troops and artillery were hemmed in the squares and
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On 3 December, about 150 representatives of Moscow's worker squads gathered at Fidler's technical school, which served as the worker's ministry of war. Despite the besieged group having a
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to separate the middle and upper classes from the workers and peasants, whose social and political demands remained unanswered. Socialists continued to encourage revolutionary movements.
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December 18: General Min, commander of the Semyonovsky Regiment, ordered the last assault: "Act without mercy. There will be no arrests."
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December 15: The head of the Moscow Okhrana was assassinated. The Moscow Soviet held its last meeting. The
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8 November]. He immediately called for an armed uprising, indifferent to whether or not it succeeded:
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December 19: The Moscow Committee of Social-Democratic Workers' Party ordered its comrades back to work.
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of the Imperial Guard arrived in Moscow by rail from Saint Petersburg to reinforce the local garrison.
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Less than a year later, on 13 August 1906, General Min was assassinated by Socialist Revolutionaries.
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T. Shanin, Russia, 1905-1907: Revolution as a moment of truth, Two Volumes, Macmillan Press, 1986
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35 soldiers were killed, while 1,059 rebels were killed, including 137 women and 86 children.
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On 10 December, the Socialist Revolutionaries bombed the Moscow headquarters for the
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of Workers' Deputies coordinated the uprising. The governor of Moscow, Vice Admiral
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uprising played an important role in fostering revolutionary sentiment among
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we have seized we'll establish an elected government and introduce the
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who were angered at the government's violence joined the workers.
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workers. The Moscow revolutionaries gained experience during the
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district between 7 and 18 December 1905, was the climax of the
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The final provocation for the uprising was the arrest of the
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1905 Russian Revolution

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