Dates 1895-1918

Question 1

Nicholas 11 reinstatement of the Fundamental Laws

Answer 1

April 23rd 1906

Question 2

1st Duma opens

Answer 2

April 27th 1906

Question 3

2nd Duma Opens

Answer 3

20th February 1907

Question 4

2nd Duma Dissolves

Nicholas reinstates laws that cause the “collage” system to be used for elections.

Answer 4

3rd of June 1907

Question 5

The Lena Goldmines Massacre

Answer 5

4th of April 1912

Question 6

Russia Enters WW1

Answer 6

1st of August 1914

Question 7

Battle of Tannenberg

Answer 7

28-31st of August 1914

Question 8

Battle of Musurian

Answer 8

14th of September 1914

Question 9

140,000 people strike on the anniversary of Bloody Sunday, Begins the February Revolution

Answer 9

9th of January 1917

Question 10

International Woman’s Day Protest and Strikes

Answer 10

23rd of February 1917

Question 11

Nicholas 2nd Abdicate.

Answer 11

2nd of March 1917

Question 12

Lenin’s Speech at Finland Station

Answer 12

3rd of April 1917

Question 13

The Petrograd uprising causes the liberal coalition in the Provisional Government to collapse.
Kerensky becomes prime minister, leading a cabinet filled with socialists.

Answer 13

8th of July 1917

Question 14

The ‘Kornilov affair’.
General Kornilov declares his intention to march on Petrograd and free the country from radical socialists. He claims to have the approval of the Provisional Government, though this is unclear.

Answer 14

25th August 1917

Question 15

700,000 railway workers on strike; leading Bolsheviks released from prison.

Answer 15

1st-4th of September 1917

Question 16

October Revolution begins.
The Bolshevik Central Committee declares that “an armed uprising is inevitable”. The Petrograd Soviet creates Military Revolutionary Committee (MRC).

Answer 16

10th of October 1917

Question 17

The MRC arrests Provisional Government members in the Winter Palace, except for Kerensky, who has fled.

Answer 17

26th of October 1917