key dates

Question 1

1855

Answer 1

Alexander II becomes Tsar (political)

Question 2

1856

Answer 2

Crimean war ends (foreign policy)

Question 3

1861

Answer 3

abolition of serfdom (social)

Question 4

1863-64

Answer 4

Polish revolt (political)

Question 5

1866

Answer 5

attempted assassination of Alex II (political)

Question 6

1881

Answer 6

Alexander II assasinated and Alex III succeeds (political)

Question 7

1882

Answer 7

may laws (social)

Question 8

1883

Answer 8

peasants land bank created (economic)

Question 9

1883

Answer 9

Nobles’ land bank was created (economic)

Question 10

1889

Answer 10

Land captains established (economic)

Question 11

1891-92

Answer 11

Famine (economic)

Question 12

1894

Answer 12

Death of alexander III and Nic II succeeds (political)

Question 13

1898

Answer 13

Social democratic workers’ party founded (political)

Question 14

1899

Answer 14

social revolutionary party established (political)

Question 15

1904

Answer 15

Russo- japanese war begins (foreign policy)

Question 16

1905- July

Answer 16

Bloody sunday massacre

Question 17

1905- Aug

Answer 17

Russo- Japanese war concluded

Question 18

1905- Oct

Answer 18

october manifesto

Question 18

1914

Answer 18

Germany declares war on Russia (foreign policy)

Question 19

1915

Answer 19

Tsar assumed command of army (political)

Question 20

1916

Answer 20

murder of rasputin (political)

Question 21

1917- feb

Answer 21

february revolution

Question 22

1917- april

Answer 22

april thesis

Question 23

1917- july

Answer 23

july days

Question 24

1917- aug

Answer 24

kornilov attempted coup

Question 25

1917- oct

Answer 25

october revolution

Question 26

1917- nov

Answer 26

armistice ends war

Question 27

1918

Answer 27

• constituent assembly dissolved (political)
• treaty of brest- litovsk (foreign policy)
• civil war begins (economic)

Question 28

1921

Answer 28

• Ban of factions (political)
• treaty of Riga; civil war ends (foreign policy)

Question 29

1921-22

Answer 29

great famine (economic)

Question 30

1922

Answer 30

constitution of USSR adopted (political)

Question 31

1924

Answer 31

lenin dies (political)

Question 32

1926

Answer 32

united opposition formed (political)

Question 33

1928- 32

Answer 33

first five year plan (economic and political)

Question 34

1929

Answer 34

• final defeat of opposition brings Stalin to power
• call for collectivisation and dekulkisation (economic)

Question 35

1932- 33

Answer 35

famine in Ukraine (economic)

Question 36

1933-37

Answer 36

second five year plans (economic)

Question 37

1934

Answer 37

assassination of Kirov (political)

Question 38

1936

Answer 38

new soviet constitution (political)

Question 39

1936-38

Answer 39

Stalin’s purges (political)

Question 40

1937- 38

Answer 40

height of great terror (social)

Question 41

1938-42

Answer 41

Third Five year plan (economic)

Question 42

1941

Answer 42

Nazi invasion of USSR (Foreign policy)

Question 43

1945

Answer 43

end of second world war (foreign policy)

Question 44

1946

Answer 44

beginning of Zhdanovschina (social)