Revolution imagery
The initiation of the Russian Poland rebellion is best described using historical imagery, which takes readers back to the triggering factors that resulted in the rebellion. The author writes, "The origins of the Revolution of 1905 in Russian Poland can be traced back to developments in the final phase of an earlier but far different upheaval, the January Insurrection of 1863-1864. As tsarist Russia suppressed this last of a series of challenges by the Polish nobility, orszlachta, to its hegemony in central Poland, it set in motion forces that were to reshape Polish society and redefine Polish politics for decades to come.”
Bloody Sunday
In the early 19th century, the demonstrations in Russia were a daring move by the protesters who knew well that the empire did not tolerate such acts. Going against the empire was not different from signing a death sentence. Therefore, the outcome was messy and bloody. The author says, "Beginning with Bloody Sunday, the infamous massacre of working-class demonstrators in St. Petersburg on January 22, industrial labor played an undeniably significant role in the Revolution of 1905 in European Russia. The outrage after Bloody Sunday, expressed in massive strikes and demonstrations throughout the empire, indeed became the spark that ignited Russia’s subsequent bourgeois-democratic revolution.”
The Carrot and stick imagery
In the early months of 1905, the rate of upheavals and revolution was gaining momentum, and the government had to think about how to calm the situation tactfully. The carrot-and-stick imager illustrates how the government handled the upheaval in the Polish provinces. The author writes, “The carrot-and-stick approach was the result not of a carefully considered policy but of inconsistent attitudes within the government about how best to deal with the crisis in the Polish provinces. Generally, the central government in St. Petersburg inclined toward compromise in the linguistic, cultural, and religious spheres, a tendency that, if realized in full, could have satisfied the national aspirations of most politically conscious Poles.”
