The Following Is an Excerpt from an Eyewitness Account of Bloody

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The following is an excerpt from an eyewitness account of Bloody Sunday, one of the events that sparked the Russian Revolution of 1905 (Evaluating the Evidence 23.2) : "The soldiers of the Preobrazhensky regiment, without any summons to disperse, shoot down the unfortunate people as if they were playing at bloodshed. Several hundred fall; more than a hundred and fifty are killed. They are almost all children, women, and young people. It is terrible. Blood flows on all sides. At 5 o'clock the crowd is driven back, cut down and repelled on all sides. The people, terror-stricken, fly in every direction. Scared women and children slip, fall, rise to their feet, only to fall again farther on. At this moment a sharp word of command is heard and the victims fall en masse. There had been no disturbances to speak of. The whole crowd is unarmed and has not uttered a single threat."
The author of this account was determined to make the point that

• A)the Tsar was personally responsible for the violence of Bloody Sunday.
• B)the Tsar's authority rested on a strong response to the protestors.
• C)most of the protestors were professional revolutionaries and agitators.
• D)the protestors were peaceful and had done nothing to provoke the soldiers' attack.

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