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However, the emancipation imposed harsh economic conditions on the peasants and did not satisfy their need for farmland. The poverty was causing major problems for the peasants and their employers and the country in general. The peasants were unrest and wanted their way of life to be improved drastically. There was all instability amongst students, business community and the intelligentsia who felt they were being ignored and they weren't being allowed much political influence. The revolution caused more people to strike and begin to realise that Russia needed change in order to be able to reform in an industrial, social and economic sense. In October of 1905 Nicholas published an October Manifesto promising basic rights like the freedom of speech and religion etc... Russia was currently paralysed by strikes and something needed to be done, with the help of Sergei Witte the manifesto was published. A key part of this was the proposal to form a Duma, a parliament, which could help govern Russia.
The peasants' main problem, their desperate need for land, was not dealt with and the police regime that had come into maturity in the 1880s did not change. Trade Unions had been made legal in principle, but the police frequently closed down individual unions. Political parties were legal and even revolutionary socialists could win seats in the Duma, but the members of revolutionary socialist parties were no less liable to arrest than before and their leaders were forced to emigrate to avoid imprisonment or exile within Russia. After order was eventually restored the autocracy and regime has lost a lot of support and were severely resented. The regime had executed 15,000 people, shot or wounded at least 20,000 and exiled 45,000. The problems in Russia were not solved by the 1905 revolution because the people had 2 more revolutions in February and October of 1917 and then there was a civil war in 1918 - 1920. Despite this the regime regained strength despite losing support...

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