Original sentence: Although put down with a blend of accommodation and savagery, the Revolution did increase the pace of reform in Russia, but not enough to prevent the second revolution which overturned the Romanovs in 1917, and the Revolution of 1905 was often looked back on by the Bolsheviks as an initial popular antecedent to their own revolution.It was not controlled or managed, and it had no single cause or aim, but instead was the culmination of decades of unrest and dissatisfaction stemming from the autocratic rule of the Romanov dynasty and the slow pace of reform in Russian society.The Russian Revolution of 1905 was an empire-wide struggle of both anti-government and undirected violence which swept through vast areas of Russia in 1905.The direct cause was the abject failure of the Tsar's military forces in the initially-popular Russo-Japanese War, which set off a series of revolutionary activities, sometimes by mutinous soldiers and other times by revolutionary societies
Edited sentence: Although unrest had been a regular part of the Russian Empire, seriou.Both the state and the church were subordinate to this autocracy, which in 1905 was headed by Nicholas II, of the House of Romanov.Five percent of Russia's population consisted of the nobles, who owned most of the land (and had, until 1861, owned the peasants).The peasants, with the small, but growing industrial working class (proletariat), made up the remaining 95 percent of the Russian populace.Their land, labour and goods were fiercely controlled at the aristocracy, and their socio-economic conditions were usually poor.{The Tsars (or Czars, as it is spelt in English), Russia's monarchs (being the equivalents of chiefs, kings or pharaohs), governed with an iron fist -- just as the Bourbons, Louis' and Hapsburgs did in other countries