During the war, the Bloody Sunday at St Petersburg had shocked the Russian population when 46the soldiers opened the fire against their own population. The subsequent losses of the warincreased the political pressure on the tsar and his government, because the ordinary people werenot willing to support an imperialist war at the edge of the world just for the fame and dreams ofthe royal ruler. Consequently, the steady growth of the revolutionary movement was highly 47related to the war itself. If the soldiers were sent to Manchuria there was no sufficient securityagainst a possible revolution and the increasing number of rebellions due to recruitment attemptsof the government underlined this development – one counted 107 violent incidents connected tothe recruitment of new troops between September and December 1904. Finally, it was internal 48reasons that led the tsar to seek peace and in October 1905, the October Manifesto was granted to Sakurai, Human Bullets, xv. 45 For a description what happened on Bloody Sunday see George Gapon, The Story of My Life (New York: E.P. 46Dutton & Co., 1906), 174-185. John Bushnell, “The Specter of Mutinous Reserves: How the War Produced the October Manifesto,“ in The 47Russo-Japanese War in Global Perspective. World War Zero Vol. 1, ed. John W. Steinberg et al., History of WarfareVol. 29 (Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2005), 334. Ibid. 335.