By mid-October 1905, the star was in danger from a general strike across the empire. Liberals and workers had come together and had paralysed the autocracy. The fate of the Tsarist regime hung in balance. But by the end of 1906 Nicholas II was once again in firm control. He had achieved this recovery by a combination of concessions and repressive force. Although the political parties shared the same ultimate goal of overthrowing the existing order; Tzardom, they were divided from one another. The Liberals, the Mensheviks, the Bolsheviks and the Social Revolutionaries had different political programmes. In 1905 each political party made its own struggles against Tzardom. Therefore, the Tsarist government could suppress these political parties one by one. Besides the division between the political parties, there were many disagreements within each of the political parties: the right-wing Liberals disagreed with the radical Liberals, the Mensheviks disagreed with the Bolsheviks, and the Social Revolutionaries disagreed with the radical Social Revolutionaries. The inside division within each party massively weakened the strength of its struggle against Tzardom. And therefore meant that the groups were easily little worry for the tsar.
The chief driving force of the 1905 Revolution was the main population, the peasants. But this class were not properly led by the political parties to seize power. Both the Social Democrats and Social Revolutionaries had wrong conceptions of the role they should take in the 1905 Revolution. They believed that the middle class revolution should take over the socialist revolution and that they should wait for the liberals to establish a middle class government in 1905. Thus they did not make use of the potential revolutionary strength of the masses to capture power from the Tzarist government as soon as the 1905 Revolution broke out. But the Liberals were too weak in number that they could not become an independent political force to replace the Tzarist government. The tsar then, could easily repress them
The political programmes of the political parties failed to secure wholehearted support from the masses because their programmes did not represent the wishes of the masses. The Liberals did not include social and economic reforms in their programme. The programme of the Social Democrats spoke in favour of the establishment of a Socialist State through a class struggle but few of the workers understood revolutionary theories and they just wanted a better economic livelihood. The Social Revolutionaries wished for the control of land, or at least have a say in how it is run, but the peasants just wanted the division of large estates among themselves. In 1917 the Bolsheviks could secure temporary support from the masses because Lenin changed part of the Bolshevik programme. He promised 'Land and Peace' to the people.