... to pay redemption payments to their landlords and heavy land taxes to the government. However, due to poor harvests and insufficient farmland, the redemption payments and land taxes became a large burden of the peasants. As a result, discontent of peasants increased. In addition, the revolutionary activities had been generated in the 19th century. The Populists, the Liberals and the limited Marxists, they later increased their activities and even set up their own political party in late 19th and 20th century. Their opposition seemed to be suppressed, but in fact they were just went underground in Alexander III's time. Their discontent were never stopped, it had been long generated. Only their discontent reached its climax during Nicholas II's time, and this potential danger turned to be a revolution due to the Bloody Sunday Incident and the defeat in Russo-Japanese War. The 1905 Revolution finally stopped. The Czarist Regime did not collapse. The ...

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