econd reform to come about after emancipation was the introduction of jury trials, independent judges, and professional lawyers. These reforms all served to reshape the economy with the new abs!
             ence of serfdom. Russia began to look toward the west for ideas of industrialization and capitalism and with it came the revolutionary ideology needed to carry out there this achievement.
             Government began to promote industrialization to help their ailing economy, and this sent the starving peasants into the urban centers in search of work. The jobs gave low wages and the peasants suffered under oppressive condition. While the peasants starved, the rising professional and business classes wanted a Western parliamentary rule because they were unhappy with the long tsarist regime. This unhappiness began the formation of the parties that would run the revolutions of 1917. Populist groups formed in the countryside, and soon joined the radical social workers groups to form the Socialist Revolutionary party. The Marxist Social Democratic Labor party was also established and later split into two factions: the Mensheviks and the Bolsheviks. Middle class liberals also formed the Constitutional Democratic Party (CADETS).
             Along with this new political disorder, came numerous loses in the Russo-Japanese war and with it cam the revolution of 1905. There were riots, strikes, and a call for civil liberties from the tsarist regime. The Revolution of 1905 is considered practice for the Revolutions of 1917. Nicholas II reluctantly granted the peasants with a range of civil liberties but not enough to sate the their hungry desire for liberty.
             As the final stroke of unhappiness, Russia entered into World War I, already economically and politically unstable. The entrance into WWI caused all land reform to be suspended and new political restrictions were imposed. This came just shortly before the gaining of some civil liberties from Nicholas II. R...