Russia AoS1: Contribution of 1905 to February 1917?

[ben92]

'Using three or four points, explain how the Tsarist regime's response to 'Bloody Sunday' in 1905 contributed to the development of a revolutionary situation between 1905 and February 1917.'

What do you guys think of my plan to answer this question

1. disillusionment in liberals which led people to turn to B'ism (post-3rd duma 1912-14 militancy, duma failure to accomplish much)

2. displayed unwillingness of tsar to reform (ambiguity about bulygin duma, constant dissolution of dumas), giving impetus to revolution (turned to revolutionarys and the Bolsheviks - 1912-14 militancy in which Bolsheviks control almost all soviets)

3. strained military loyalty - R-J war mutinies following Bloody Sunday, was critical in february 1917 when the army defected to the protesters instead of repressing them

4. muzhiks [russian: peasants] largely ignored by OM until after they revolted, stolypin reforms fail or at least don't succeed by the time of his assassination,  would return to devastate in feb given they made up a lot of the mutinous petrograd military garrison

Let me know if I've made anything unclear.

[ben92]

'Using three or four main points, explain why the 1905 revolution failed to topple tsardom.'

1. Protesting forces were separate and did not identify with one another - e.g. even with the UoU the liberals/working class/peasants/soldiers never united or acted as one force

2. The OM 'bought out' the liberals and to some extent the working class while completing ignoring the peasants (no concessions in the OM) and revolutionary working class (e.g. December shut-down of the Moscow Soviet). In this way, the tsar succeeded in dividing the would-be revolutionaries.

3. Despite the disaster of the R-J war, the army stayed loyal and destroyed the soviet and marched against protesters unlike in February 1917 where their defection was instrumental in bringing about the tsar's abdication

4. The influence of the revolutionaries was minute - liberals drove 195, and the soviet's called for revolution went unheeded, was destroyed and received nothing from the October Manifesto