Why was the revolution of 1905 called "the dress rehearsal for the 1917 revolution"? the actors, the masses, peasant unions, and soviets, were all the same with unresolved issues. the japanese were ready to battle again. enough time had passed. the czar's image was no longer tarnished by bloody sunday. the duma was a failure.

i confess that there are several parts of this constitution which i do not at present approve, but i am not sure i shall never approve them: for having lived long, i have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which i once thought right, but found to be otherwise. it is therefore that the older i grow, the more apt i am to doubt my own judgment, and to pay more respect to the judgment of others.

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