ODJEK RUSKE DEMOKRATSKE REVOLUCIJE 1905. U RADNIČKIM POKRETIMA SRBIJE I HRVATSKE
THE EFFECT OF THE RUSSIAN DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTION OF 1905 ON LABOR MOVEMENTS IN SERBIA AND CROATIA

Summary/Abstract: Labor movements in various parts of Yugoslavia were more influenced by European labor movements, such as those of Austria, Germany, France, England etc. than by Russian labor movements. A change in the relations became evident only at the beginning of the 20c., with the appearance of articles in Serbian and Croatian socialist papers dialing with the topic of the Russian labor movement. Initially, in the period preceding the war between Russia and Japan in 1904, these articles most often gave news of unrest among workers, students and secondary-school pupils. Socialist papers in Serbia and Croatia especially followed and reported unrest and demonstrations in Petrograd, Rostov-on-Don, Baku and other cities. During the war between Russia and Japan the news were more frequent and given at greater length since at the time the Serbian and Croatian proletariat gave their anti-war moral support to the Russian proletariat. The anti-war support was significant as there was imminent danger that the conflict could spread to other countries. The Serbian socialists approached the question of the war between Russia and Japan from a wider viewpoint. Russia, due to its inner crisis and the repressive tzarist regime could not expect other than defeat from the war. Because of its own revolutionary situation and pressure from England, France and America, Russia was forced to accept peace imposed on it in 1905 in Portsmouth by which it lost a great part of its territory. Consequently Russia's domestic situation became even more difficult and revolutionary activity more pronounced, causing stronger echoes of the Russian democratic revolution in Yugoslavia. In the course of the Russian democratic revolution the workers of Serbia and Croatia, as part of the international proletariat, gave their moral and material support to Russian workers while their papers »The Workers’ Paper«, »Worker«, »Free Word«, »Red Freedom«etc. wrote extensively about the revolutionary events.

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