The Russian Workers Strike and the Intelligencia

bloody sunday triggered vast wave of protest, workers strikes, street demonstrations and demands for economic and political reform. This wave of protest spread through three principal channels, the workers, the intelligencia and this whole other can of worms that i've been giving short shrift to in the series so far. But one channel these mass protests in january and february 19 o five did not travel through was the peasantry. We are not here talking about people throwing up barra ades and storming fortresses. These were peaceful strikes, not insurrectionary uprisings,. The local authorities had no coherent plan for dealing with any of it. As we saw last week, initial attempts to