The Russo-Japanese War for the Peasants

The russian army was primarily composed of peasant conscripts. The lived reality of the russo japanese war for the peasants was watching husbands, sons, brothers and fathers taken off to go fight a war that was quickly revealed to be as pointless as it was incompetently led. By the spring of 19 o five, many workers who had personally witnessed events of the previous winter were now coming back home with lurid tales of murder and revolution. This led the peasants to start participating in these moment events in two ways. First, village councils would get together and come up with their own petitions to send the czar,. featuring their own demands, more land, cheaper rent, higher