Key dates Flashcards
1861
the emancipation of the serfs
1904
Russo-Japanese war- 120k Russian casualties
1905 revolution and tsars responses
- 22nd Jan 1905: bloody sunday
- 1905: revolution, 2mil on strike by october
- oct 1905: october manifesto, civil liberties, free speech, Duma
- April 1906: fundamental laws
key events of the duma
- May 1906: 1st duma, 2 months, 50/50 elected/chosen
- 1907: 2nd duma, 4 months, no kadets
- 1907-1912: 3rd duma, all right wing
amount of people on strike each year
(1912-1914)
1912:
- Lena goldfields massacre, 270 killed
- 2000 on strike
1913:
- 2400 on strike
1914:
- 1 mil on strike
early ww1
- 1914: Battle of Tannenberg, 30,000 casualties
- 1915: tsar takes control of army
- 1916: Brusilov offence, 500k-1mil casualties
February revolution
(1917)
- Jan: 150,000 on strike (bloody Sunday anniversary)
- 14th Feb: news of bread ration drop, 100,000 on strike
- 23rd feb: womens day 90,000 strike
- 25th feb: 250,000 on strike
- 26th feb: rodziankos telegram
- 27th feb: soilders mutiny, duma dissolved
- 2nd march: Tsar resigns
era between feb and oct revolution 1917
- April: Lenin returns, April thesis
- June: vote of confidence for PG
- June: summer offensive
- July days
- august kornilov affair
- Sept: Bolsheviks dominate petrograd soviets
- 10th Oct: Lenin returns
October revolution 1917
- 25th oct storming of the winter palace
- oct: banned opposition press, decree on land
- nov: elections, SRs=53%, bol=24%
- Dec: cheka established
1918
- Jan: 1st and only constituent assembly meeting
- March: treaty of Brest-Litovsk
civil war 1918-1921
- July 1918: Tsar executed
- 1918: Omsk + komuch fail to link, fight and revolt
- June 1918 war communism + red terror
- 1920-21: Tambov revolt
- 1921: kronstadt rebellion
consilidation of power
(1921-24)
1921:
- NEP, no grain requesitioning, private land, trade, some industry
- ban on factions, 1 party state
1922:
- GPU, stalin is general secretary, Lenins testament
1923:
- scissor crisis
power struggle
(1924-29)
1924:
- Lenin dies L+Z+K triumvirate
- Z+K campaign against T and block lenins testimant
1925:
- lenin peruses SIOC + NEP
1926:
- united opposition
1928-29:
- Great turn
- rapid industrialisation, Bukharin defeated + removed from politburo
- Lenin undisputed leader
Collectivisation
(1930-41)
- March 1930: dizzy with success, 58% collectivised
- Oct 1930: 20% collectivised, allowed private plots
- 1932: theft of grain = 10yrs prison, internal passports, selling food before quota = 10yrs prison
- 1932-34: famine, 7 million peasants dead
- 1938: 48% harvesting done mechanically + 72% ploughing
- 1941- 100% collectivised
5yr Plans
(1928-41)
- 1928-32: 1st 5yr plan, electricity x3, coal and iron x2
-1932-37: 2nd 5yr plan, self sufficient in metal + machine tools
1934-36: the 3 good years, better standard of living + light industry, moscow metro complete - 1938-41: 3rd 5yr plan, cut short due to war
- 1938-40: spending on war doubled, t-34 tank
