Dates Flashcards
Land Captains replaced the…
Elected Justices of the Peace
Alexander III became Tsar in…
1881
Land Captains were created in…
1889
Major famine in Russia occurred in…
1881
What were the land captains?
Aristocrats appointed by the Tsar
Could overrule the zemstva and change peasant farmers with minor offences
Nicholas II became tsar in…
1894
The social Democratic Party formed in…
1898
The social Democratic Party followed the political beliefs of…
Karl Marx
The socialist revolutionary party formed in…
1901
The socialist revolutionary party grew out of the….
Populists
Believed revolution would begin in the countryside
The socialist revolutionary party aimed to:
Redistribute land to peasants
Improve living and working conditions in towns
Overthrow tsarism by force
Russo-Japanese war began in…
1904
Why was the Russo-Japanese war a short-term factor of the revolution?
-suffered humiliating defeats: lost port Arthur
Jan 9th 1905:
Bloody Sunday
Bloody Sunday was:
Soldiers guarding the winter palace open fired, killing 100s of unarmed people
Tsar agreed to the October manifesto in:
October 1905
The October manifesto led to:
Strengthened Nicholas’ position
Army & police remained loyal
Opposition groups split
Political parties taken by surprise and didn’t coordinate effective opposition)
What broke some of the priorities made in the October manifesto?
Fundamental law
When was the Fundamental Law issued?
1906
What did the fundamental law reassert?
The tsar’s authority
The first Duma began in…
1906
Why did the 1st Duma dissolve?
Nicholas refuses their demands and it was dissolved after 72 days
Stolypin was prime minister:
1906-1911
2nd Duma began
Feb 1907
What did the 2nd Duma do?
Passed important land reform proposals by stolypin
But it remained in a state of almost constant uproar
The 2nd Duma ended
June 1907
The 3rd Duma began:
November 1907
The 3rd Duma was..
More right-wing, and prepared to work with government rather than oppose it
The 3rd Duma ended in
1912
Redemption payments abolished in…
1907
Stolypin was assassinated in…
1911
Could never develop his reforms, long-term effects never realised
4th Duma began in…
1912
4th Duma worked with the government until…
WWI broke out
WWI began in..:
1914
Zemgor was formed in…
1915
The zemgor was an organisation that helped…
The government in WWI
1915, Nicholas II appointed himself…
Supreme commander of the armed forces
By appointing himself supreme commander of the armed forces it meant he was away from Petrograd for…
Long periods of time
Tsar abdicated in…
March 1917
How was the tsar forced to abdicate?
Mutinous troops stopped train
Told to abdicate in favour of his son
His brother then refused
The 1st provisional government was formed in…
3rd march 1917
1st provisional government formed was mainly made up of…
Kadets and other liberal parties
No lawful authority
Would govern until a CA was elected
Lenin returned to Petrograd from exile in…
3rd April 1917
On Lenin’s return he published the…
April theses
The April theses was a policy statement of Lenin’s calling for ?
Revolution
June offensive was in…
June 1917
The June offensive was an…
Attack led by Brusilov against Austria-Hungarian and German forces
The July days was in…
July 1917
The July days was a series of…
Demonstrations agains provisional government
2nd provisional government began in…
8th July 1917
Kornilov affair was in…
August 1917
In Kornilov affair:
General kornilov was believed to order troops to march on the capital
Kerensky panicked and joined forces with Petrograd soviet
Rebellion collapsed
Kornilov dismissed and arrested
Why did the kornilov affair weaken the PG?
Leading Bolsheviks released from prison
Bolsheviks seized power in…
October 10th 1917
October revolution began in…
24th October 1917
The All Russian Congress of Soviets was announced as the new Russian government in…
26th October 1917
Cheka formed in..
December 1917
Constituent assembly dissolved in….
Jan 1918
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was signed…
March 1918
The treaty of Brest-Litovsk had many disadvantages:
Lost vast areas of land
1/3 agricultural land
1/2 heavy industry 90% coal mines
War communism ran between…
1918-21
War communism was the Bolshevik’s economics policy during civil war.
Party had control of:
Industry
Grain requisitioning
Ban on private enterprise
Red terror was between:
1918-1922
Tambov rising occurred :
1920-21
What was the Tambov rising?
1000s peasants rebelled - resistance to grain requisitioning
Kronstadt rising occurred:
1921
What was the Kronstadt rising?
1000s of workers and sailors demanded end to war communism
What replaced war communism?
New Economic Party
