Editing October Manifesto (section)

==Effects==
The Manifesto enjoyed a short-lived success. The strikes and much of the violence ended almost as soon as it was published.<ref name="Eidelman"/> Enthusiasm swept the nation as people realised their new-found freedom and the idea of having representation in the government.<ref name="Eidelman"/> This manifesto also sprouted the [[Union of October 17|Octobrists]].

However, some of the population opposed the reforms. October 19–20 marked the [[second Kishinev pogrom]] against the Jewish community there, which started as a protest against the Manifesto.

The immediate success of the Manifesto, however, was followed by a return to the cycle of strikes and violence as the autocracy gradually reaffirmed its power. Within months, executions of armed revolutionaries were numbering more than a thousand.<ref name="Fitzpatrick"/> The government began suppressing political parties; by 1906–07 much of Russia was under [[martial law]]. This was relaxed after the end of the revolution in 1907.<ref name="Fitzpatrick"/>