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Social Studies, 13.01.2021 14:00, t0ri21

Sire – We working men of St. Petersburg, our wives and children, and our helpless parents, aged men and women, have come to you, O Tsar, in search of justice and protection. We have been impoverished and oppressed, and excessively burdened with hard work and labor. We have been treated with contempt. We are not recognized as human beings, but are treated as slaves who must suffer in silence. . . . We ask for a representative legislature . . . liberty of speech and of the press . . . equality of all persons before the law . . . the repeal of [unfair taxation] . . . an eight-hour working day . . . and a normal working wage.
—"The St. Petersburg Workmen’s Petition
to the Tsar,”
January 22, 1905

What is the author’s main purpose in this passage?

O To ask the tsar for greater freedoms and improved working conditions
O To encourage the wealthy landowners to support land reform
O To order the tsar to step down and create a new government
O To persuade the people to support the Bolsheviks

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