Book contents
- Revolutionary World
- Revolutionary World
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Global Revolution
- 1 The Atlantic Revolutions
- 2 The Revolutionary Waves of 1848
- 3 The Worlds of the Paris Commune
- 4 The Global Wave of Constitutional Revolutions, 1905–1915
- 5 The Global Red Revolution
- 6 The Wilsonian Uprisings of 1919
- 7 The Third World Revolutions
- 8 The Global Islamic Revolution
- 9 The Anticommunist Revolts of 1989
- 10 The Arab Uprisings
- Islands of Global Revolution
- Index
4 - The Global Wave of Constitutional Revolutions, 1905–1915
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Book contents
- Revolutionary World
- Revolutionary World
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Global Revolution
- 1 The Atlantic Revolutions
- 2 The Revolutionary Waves of 1848
- 3 The Worlds of the Paris Commune
- 4 The Global Wave of Constitutional Revolutions, 1905–1915
- 5 The Global Red Revolution
- 6 The Wilsonian Uprisings of 1919
- 7 The Third World Revolutions
- 8 The Global Islamic Revolution
- 9 The Anticommunist Revolts of 1989
- 10 The Arab Uprisings
- Islands of Global Revolution
- Index
Summary
On Monday, October 30, 1905, late in the afternoon, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia signed a one-page document promising to respect civil rights, share power with a parliament, and hold free elections. “There was no other way out than to cross oneself and give what everyone was asking for,” Nicholas wrote to his mother two days later. General strikes gripped the major cities of his realm; his government’s finances were a shambles; his sole candidate to lead a hard-line crackdown had refused the job that very morning, threatening to kill himself in the tsar’s presence if reforms were not granted.
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- Revolutionary WorldGlobal Upheaval in the Modern Age, pp. 111 - 129Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021