1881 Was The Main Cause Of The 1905 Revolution

How accurate is it to say that the growth of reformist groups in the years from 1881 was the main cause of the 1905 revolution?

In some ways it is accurate to say that the growth of reformist groups in the years from 1881 was a significant cause of the 1905 revolution because they stirred up discontent amongst industrial workers and peasants. The social revolutionaries’ party was formed from ‘the peoples will’. These were a radical party that came around in the 1860’s. They split from the peoples will to form the SR. The majority of the SR consisted of the educated middle class; their aims were for the control of Russia to be in the hands of the people. Another reformist group is the Social Democrats Party that was also formed from the peoples
In the countryside the living conditions for the peasants were deteriorating due to some failed harvests. These failed harvests (e.g. the famine of 1891) caused there to be economic hardship amongst the peasants. This hardship caused the peasants to start taking notice and listening to the views of some radical and extremist parties and they shared similar views. This caused there to be an increased political participation amongst the peasants. Another factor that caused dissatisfaction among the peasants was the bloody Sunday massacre. On Sunday 9th of January 1905 father Gapon lead a peaceful protest towards the winter palace in St. Petersburg. However, the tsar was not at his palace yet had sent out instructions to crush any opposition towards him and his ruling. As the crowd continued towards the palace the army shot down and killed many protestors. This brutality was inhumane and ghastly causing many more people to question the tsar’s rule as he shot down people who were proudly holding his picture to signify their love for him however wanted to discuss change. This highlighted the futility of
The assassination alexander 2nd persuaded his following generations (alexander 3rd and Nicholas 2nd) to follow a way of rule that meant that all reformist groups were repressed. It became a criminal offence to oppose the tsar or/and his government. There were Okhrana spies all over Russia that infiltrated and destroyed reformist and extremist groups. This policy weakened the main reformist groups, the populists, socialist revolutionaries and social democrats, but also forced them underground in any way, a further incentive to the reformists. The reformists hated that they were suppressed by the government and that the government now had power people’s opinions by making it illegal to oppose the tsar. The effects of the Russo-Japanese war and the Potemkin mutiny had a great significance to the 1905 revolution as the Japanese forces defeated the Russian armies which humiliated Russia. This defeat also meant that there was a great unrest within the government and within the faith that the people had in the government. The failure of the war undermined support for the tsar and gave encouragement to revolutionaries. This gave the revolutionaries an incentive to