1.4 Gapon and Bloody Sunday
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Lecture 4. Gapon and Bloody Sunday (January 9, 1905)
Will January 9, 1905, mark the point of no return for the Russian Empire?
Who was Georgy Gapon really: a provocateur, a charismatic priest, or an organizer of the labor movement?
Svyatopolk-Mirsky's "Autumn Spring": What were the liberals hoping for?
Could the bloodshed of January 9 have been avoided, and was the "absent" monarchy its cause?
How is "John Grafton" connected to radicalization, and why did the smuggling scheme fail?
Gapon after January 9: a new star of the opposition or a disappointment for the political community?
Drama in Ozerki: What's myth and what's truth in the "planned murder" theory?
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00:00 "Bloody Sunday." Who is Georgy Gapon?
01:40 Sergei Zubatov – Head of the Moscow Security Department. The Creation of Workers' Mutual Aid Organizations
05:02 Zubatov's Trade Unions
06:45 The Acquaintance of Zubatov and Gapon
08:36 Zubatov's Dismissal and the Labor Movement's Transition to Gapon's Leadership
09:28 How Was the First Trade Union Created?
13:23 How Did Gapon Play on Two Fronts?
14:41 Dismissal of workers from the Putilov factory and the rise of Gapon's authority
16:51 Plan for a peaceful revolution
18:42 Gapon's radical attitudes and joining the Socialist Revolutionary movement
21:20 The threshold of disaster: Nicholas II rejected reforms on December 12, 1904
22:50 Demand for an eight-hour workday
23:36 A set of democratic demands: Gapon's petition to Nicholas II
27:45 Strike at the Putilov factory and industrial shutdown on January 8, 1905
28:29 Incident at the blessing of the waters on January 6 (19), 1905
31:39 January 9, 1905 – the beginning of the First Russian Revolution: preparation and course of events
36:27 Why did the first shots begin and there were casualties?
41:41 The first barricade clashes in Russian history
42:50 The shooting of workers at the Winter Palace
46:14 The Commission for the Study of the Labor Question
47:02 Georgy Gapon – a defrocked priest and state criminal
49:45 A meeting of Russian factory workers in St. Petersburg
51:15 Gapon and the organization of arms smuggling on the steamship "John Grafton"
53:46 The quarrel between Gapon and Azef
55:10 The trade union's demand for monetary compensation from the government
57:30 Pyotr Rachkovsky, Pyotr Rutenberg, and Georgy Gapon's political games
01:00:39 How did they decide to get rid of Gapon?
01:02:10 The assassination of Gapon
01:04:40 The consequences of the events of January 9, 1905