Comment Historical sidenote (Score 1) 172
The 1905 incident wasn't Bolshevik - the Bolsheviks hadn't even split from the Mensheviks at that point. The Russian socialists were only marginally involved in 1905. It is historically known as "Bloody Sunday," when tsarist troops fired upon thousands of peaceful, unarmed protestors. It essentially marked when the Russian people really started hating Nicholas II, even though he had nothing to do with the incident.