Dates

Question 1

When was the Crimean War

Answer 1

1953-56

Question 2

Emancipation of privately owned serfs?

Answer 2

1861

Question 3

Polish rebellion?

Answer 3

1863

Question 4

Emancipation of state serfs?

Answer 4

1866

Question 5

Establishment of Peasant’s Land Bank

Answer 5

1883

Question 6

When did oil extraction in Baku begin?

Answer 6

1871

Question 7

Great Famine?

Answer 7

1891-1892

Question 8

Russo-Japanese War

Answer 8

1904-1905

Question 9

What year did Witte introduce a new rouble?

Answer 9

1897

Question 10

What year did Russian hit 60,000km of railway?

Answer 10

1905

Question 11

By what year was Russia 5th largest industrial power?

Answer 11

1914

Question 12

How much did grain production rise annually from 1900-1914?

Answer 12

56m tonnes to 90m tonnes

Question 13

What year was the law passed outlawing marriage to foreigners?

Answer 13

1947

Question 14

First five-year-plan?

Answer 14

1928-32

Question 15

Second five-year-plan?

Answer 15

1933-37

Question 16

Third five-year-plan?

Answer 16

1938-42

Question 17

Fourth five-year-plan?

Answer 17

1946-50

Question 18

Fifth five-year-plan?

Answer 18

1951-55

Question 19

When was the Cheka created?

Answer 19

1917

Question 20

Politburo created?

Answer 20

1919

Question 21

USSR formed?

Answer 21

1922

Question 22

When were the May Laws established?

Answer 22

1881-82

Question 23

When were land captains established?

Answer 23

1889

Question 24

When were the SRs established?

Answer 24

1899

Question 25

When does Stolypin implement reforms?

Answer 25

1906-11

Question 26

When was the Lena Goldfields Massacre?

Answer 26

1912

Question 27

What year did Lend-Lease scheme abruptly end?

Answer 27

1947

Question 28

What decentralisation measure were put in place in 1957?

Answer 28

Moscow ministers abolished. USSR divided into 105 economic regions each with own economic council

Question 29

What year did the USSR launch the first satellite?

Answer 29

1957

Question 30

Year and name of first human in space?

Answer 30

1961, Gagarin

Question 31

Year and name of first nuclear powered ship?

Answer 31

1959, ‘Lenin’

Question 32

1961, church facts (2)

Answer 32

Children banned from church services. Forbidden for parents to teach religion to their children.

Question 33

Number of churches by 1965?

Answer 33

Under 8000

Question 34

What year were wage differentials, bonuses, opportunities for better housing as a reward to skill introduced?

Answer 34

1931

Question 35

1941, percentage of 9-49 that were literate in towns?

Answer 35

94%

Question 36

1941, percentage of 9-49 that were literate in countryside?

Answer 36

86%

Question 37

1882 how many nobles had businesses in Moscow?

Answer 37

700

Question 38

How many middle class in 1897?

Answer 38

Only 500,000

Question 39

When was sickness and accident insurance introduced?

Answer 39

1912

Question 40

Ukraine famine from kulak deportation and drought?

Answer 40

1932-33