At the turn of the 20th century you have working class revolutions and uprisings throughout Russia. Violent responses from the empire and tsar further propagated the conflict. One such instance was Bloody Sunday (1905) where workers going on strike at the Tsars winter palace were shot and killed. Ultimately the Tsar had to make agreements to introduce a parliamentary aspect to the Russian government in the form of the Duma. The Duma started off as an advisory Council and ultimately became a legislative council where members were elected by various electorates across Russia. Early on in the history of the Duma a large and influential Ukrainian caucus emerged with the objective of first obtaining Ukrainian cultural autonomy and then Ukrainian territorial autonomy. Eventually Tsar Nicolas the second got upset with the performance of the Duma and re-organized it to favor representatives from land holding backgrounds thus diminishing the influence of Ukrainians in the Duma. Also Russia was fighting the Russo-Japanese war. Ukraine now only able to influence the government through the constitutional democratic party which represented a portion of the Ukrainophile‘s interests.
