Does the Russian revolution still happen if Russia won the Russo-Japanese war

No idea about the period or anything, but could it have been they got arrested not because they were prominent leaders of the revolution but because they were Jewish and it was a good occasion as any to round them up?
It would make sense they'd be scapegoated, no?

Anti-Semitism was a policy of Nicholas and Alexander III. It certainly led to a lot of resentment in the Jewish community and when the violence broke out, it's logical that Jews would be more likely to participate.

Possible that the Jews were singled out as a group? Maybe but:

The violence is most intense in areas of large Jewish populations

The authorities generally realized that anti-Semitic violence had to be contained not out of love of the Jews but because after they beat up the Jews, they might turn on us

Non-official sources point to the prominence of Jews in many of the revolutionary movements


The original point wasn't the Revolution was a Jewish revolt but that a lot of Jews were driven to opposition to the regime and therefore participated in the violence. As long as Nicholas pursued such policies and he stubbornly pursued them to the end of the regime, these resentments would remain. By analogy, suppose an outbreak of violence happened in America in the 1930's over the depression. Would it stun us to find out that large segments of the black community took part to press the issue of Jim Crow?
 
Not at all. The violence is sporadic, disorganized and lacked focus There is simply much discontent among Russian Jews and they are very disproportionately represented among the people condemned

Can you please do what I keep asking for and provide the absolute numbers? It is pointless to keep talking about disproportional percentage: it can be a percentage of 10, of 100, of 1,000, etc. Yes, there were plenty of Jews in various terrorist organizations/parties (and among those who participated in the terrorist actions) but they did not represent a significant percentage of the people who participated in the revolutionary activities in 1905.
 
I didn't say I wrote the timeline (though I thought it was pretty good). Russia is going to be screwed in ww1 even more, I agree with that. But a victory in war could gain some prestige for Tsar Nickolas II

And such a prestige may result in WWI not happening (at least in OTL time) because Nicholas would not have to back Serbia to save his prestige already damaged during his earlier reign. So you can speculate in any way.
 
And such a prestige may result in WWI not happening (at least in OTL time) because Nicholas would not have to back Serbia to save his prestige already damaged during his earlier reign. So you can speculate in any way.

Or can happen earlier, during the Bosnian crisis...that period had seen so many close call to a war that almost impossible avert it
 
Or does it still happen?

I think the Revolution was inevitable. In 1916 the Russian people were stuck in war that seemed to be going nowhere, millions died, starvation was taking hold and the Czar would find it hard to keep the status quo. I think that the communist position would be lessoned and we may see a national Bolshevism faction rise instead
 
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