A brilliant civil servant in the reign of Alexander I, Speransky, pointed out that there were only two estates in Russia: the slaves of the Sovereign and the slaves of the landlord. The former are called free in relation to the latter; but in fact there were no free men in Russia, except the beggars and the philosophers. That is to say, throughout the 19th century, the peasants who were mostly serfs, contributed the majority …
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…the Russian government. Finally, the revolution was caused by the defeat of the Russians in the Russo-Japanese War. Nevertheless, if the Russian government had a firm, clear-cut and far-reaching policy in solving the questions of serfdom and in dealing with the workers, the 1905 Revolution might be prevented to a certain extent. This is to say, "The Russian government policy towards the peasants and the workers was largely responsible for the outbreak of the Revolution of 1905.