Ideas derived from Bakunin, Marx and also from the liberal democratic parties of Britain and France that found a growing number of supporters in universities, the 'zemstva' and amongst the industrial workers. As Russia experienced the most rapid expansion in its trade and industry of any western nation, these groups gained an increasingly important economic position. They demanded a political voice.
The events of 1905 had shocked the nation and it has been seen that the 1905 revolution certainly failed for the reasons explained above. They could serve to bind it together to build a new consensus or they could act as a symbol inspiring future conflict.
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