Dates

Question 1

When were Russia defeated in the Crimean War?

Answer 1

1856

Question 2

When was the emancipation of the serfs?

Answer 2

1861

Question 3

When was the Zemstvo law and legal reforms?

Answer 3

1864

Question 4

When were censorship regulations eased?

Answer 4

1865

Question 5

When was the first assassination attempt against Alexander II?

Answer 5

1866

Question 6

When did opposition groups such as the Narodniks, Land and Liberty and Peoples’ Will grow?

Answer 6

1874-81

Question 7

When was Alexander II assassinated?

Answer 7

1881

Question 8

When was ‘the Reaction’?

Answer 8

1881

Question 9

When was the Peasants Land Bank created?

Answer 9

1883

Question 10

When was the accession of Alexander II (the Tsar Liberator)?

Answer 10

1855

Question 11

When was the failed attempt to assassinate Alexander III?

Answer 11

1887

Question 12

When were land captains introduced?

Answer 12

1889

Question 13

When was there famine in 17 of Russia’s 39 provinces?

Answer 13

1891

Question 14

When was Witte’s ‘Great Spurt’?

Answer 14

1892-1903

Question 15

When was the accession of Nicholas II?

Answer 15

1894

Question 16

When were the Social Democrats formed?

Answer 16

1898

Question 17

When were the Social Revolutionaries formed?

Answer 17

1901

Question 18

When did the Social Democrats split into Bolsheviks and Mensheviks?

Answer 18

1903

Question 19

When was the Russo Japanese War?

Answer 19

1904-05

Question 20

What three things happened in 1905?

Answer 20

Bloody Sunday, 1905 revolution, October manifesto

Question 21

When were Stolypin’s reforms?

Answer 21

1906-1911

Question 22

When did the Four Dumas meet?

Answer 22

1906-14

Question 23

What happened in 1917?

Answer 23

February Revolution, the Dual Power, the October Revolution

Question 24

What happened in 1918?

Answer 24

The Constituent Assembly, the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

Question 25

When was the Civil War?

Answer 25

1918-21

Question 26

When was War Communism?

Answer 26

1918-21

Question 27

What happened in 1921?

Answer 27

The Kronstadt Rising, famine and economics collapse (5 million died of starvation and disease)

Question 28

When was the New Economic Policy?

Answer 28

1921-27

Question 29

When did Lenin die?

Answer 29

1924

Question 30

When was Stalin in power?

Answer 30

1928-53

Question 31

When was the introduction of the first five year plan and collectivisation?

Answer 31

1928-29

Question 32

What happened in 1932-1934?

Answer 32

Famine (5 million died of starvation and disease)

Question 33

When was the Great Terror?

Answer 33

1934-40

Question 34

When was the Great Patriotic War?

Answer 34

1941-45

Question 35

When was censorship tightened?

Answer 35

1946

Question 36

When was Keushchev’s rose to power?

Answer 36

1954-56

Question 37

When did Stalin die?

Answer 37

1953

Question 38

When did Khrushchev denounce Stalin?

Answer 38

1956

Question 39

When was the Krondstadt rebellion?

Answer 39

1921

Question 40

Production boosting incentives during NEP?

Answer 40

Piece rates

Bonuses

Question 41

What was the focus of the first two 5 year plans?

Answer 41

Heavy industry