Glenn E. Curtis' "Russia, A Country Study: The Last Years of the Autocracy"
Read this article to get a more extensive understanding of the Revolution of 1905 and of the ways in which it affected the Tsarist regime in the years leading up to the First World War. Focus especially on the question of authority: who had the authority to govern? Could the Duma carry out reforms?
Click http://countrystudies.us/russia/7.htm link to open resource.