Key dates Flashcards
Emancipation Edict
1861
Crimean war
1853-56
Censorship reforms
1860s
Education reforms
1864
Military reform
1874 (1861-81)
Assassination attempt on Alexander II
1866
The ‘reaction’
1866-81
Nicholas I death
1855
Alexander II death
1881
Alexander III death
1894
NIcholas II death
1917
Treaty of Paris
1856
Local government reform
1864
Judicial reform
1864-5
Polish revolt
1863
Trial of Vera Zasulich
1878
Trial of 50
1877
Manifesto of unshakeable autocracy published
1881
Law on Exceptional Measures
1881
Statute on police surveillance
1882
Land captains appointed
July 1889
Peasant zemstvo vote reduced
1890
redemption payments reduced
1881
Polish intellectuals allowed to form Agricultural society
1857
Pogroms
1881-4
Mass disturbances due to russification
June 1888
‘Great’ Volga famine
1891-2
1st noble land bank
1885
Decembrist uprising
1825
Land owners first allowed to sell land
1803
Orlov committee set up to discuss emancipation
1857
50% of peasantry produce a surplus
1878
1000 peasant disturbances due to emancipation
1861
Public budget set
1862
Universities given more autonomy
1863
Zemstvo established
1864
Second assassination attempt on Alexander II
1867
Zemstvo system set up for towns
1870
Bunge finance ministers
1881-7
Vyshnegradsky finance minister
1889-92
Witte finance minister
1892-1904
Stolypin prime minister
1906-11
All appointments to uni have to be approved
1884
von Reutern finance minister
1862-78
Oil extraction begins in Caspian sea
1871
Naphtha extraction company established
1879
John Hughes asked to organise coal mine in the Donbass
1868
Hughes and welsh miners build iron mine
1870
Factory act to improve working conditions
1882
import tariffs raised
1878
Redemption payments lowered
1886
Poll tax abolished
1886
Vyshnegradsky takes loans from France
1888
Russian Budget surplus
1892
Laws to restrict working hours for women, and to prevent child labour
1882-90
Education restricted for jews
1887
Jews have to live in the pale of settlement
Jews cant vote in local elections
Jews must adopt christian names
1893
Tchaikovsky circle meet in st peters
1868-9
Das Kapital published
1867
Emancipation of Labour founded by Plekhanov
1883
Emancipation of Labour joins SDs
1903
Land and LIberty formed
1876
Land and Liberty splits into Black partition and the people’s will
1879
Chernyshevsky published what is to be done
1863
Bakunin and NEchaev publish Catechism of a revolution
1869
Working day reduced to 11.5 hours
1894
Unions introduced in Moscow by Zubatov
1901
Textiles workers in St Petersburg strike
1896 and 7
Strikes peak with nearly 100000 workers
1899
International recession causes economic depression
1900-8
Zubatov dismissed after general strikes
1903
Russo-japanese war
1905
Union of liberation push for a constitutional monarchy
1904
Gapon forms the assembly of russian workers
April 1904
Father Gapon leads procession to winter palace, fired upon
Jan 1905
1905 revolution
1905 Jan- Oct
October manifesto
october 1905
opposition splits into octobrists and kadets
1905
troops sent in to stop peasant violence in the countryside
1906
Nicholas issues fundamental laws
pril 1906
SD founded
1898
SD splits into bolsheviks and mensheviks
1903
1st Duma
April-July 1906
2nd Duma
Feb-June 1907
3rd Duma
1907-12
4th Duma
1912-1917
Railway doubled (decade)
1890s
Trans siberian railways
1906
Witte adapts gold standard
1894
Stolypin appointed minister of the interior
1906
Stolypin assassinated
1911
Stolypin orders court marshalling of peasants
1906
Particularly good harvest
1913
Russia becomes world’s largest grain exporter
1909
More state and crown land available to buy
1906
Land made personal property
1906
Peasants could withdraw from the Mir and consolidate their land into larger farms
1906
All communes which hadn’t redistributed land since 1861 abolished
1910
2nd Peasants Land bank
1906
Equal rights for peasants
1906
Redemption payments officially abolished
1907
Mir abolished
1910
SD formed
1898
SR formed
1899
Nicholas rejects request for national zemstvo
1895
Struve forms Union of Liberation
1903
Liberals split into Kadets and OCtobrists
1905
SD splits into bolsheviks and mensheviks
1903
Stolypin assassinated
1911
Cultural ‘silver age’
1894-1914
Declaration of WW1
July 1914
Battle of Tannenberg
August 1914
Battle of Masurian lakes
September 1914
Russia matches german production of shells
1916
Brusilov campaign
June 1916
Nicholas makes himself supreme leader of the army
March 1915
1 million Russians killed and 1 million Russians captured
May- December 1915
Civilian authority replaced with military command on the home front
July 1914
Zemgor formed
June 1915
Progressive Bloc formed
August 1915
Duma closed
September 1915
Rasputin assassinated
30th December 1916
1.5 million soldiers desert the army
1916
30,000 strike in Moscow, 145000 strike in Petrograd
Jan 2 1917
128000-240000 women and coal miners march through Petrograd
Feb 23 1917
Half of Petrograd on strike
Feb 25 1917
Petrograd garrison mutinies and joins protesters
Feb 27 1917
Tsar’s train stopped en route to petrograd
Feb 28 1917
Tsar abdicates
March 2 1917
Inflation almost hits 400%
1916
Progressive Bloc established
1915
Duma establishes temporary governing body
Feb 27 1917
Brusilov campaign
June 1916
Military command introduced
July 1914
Zemstvo and town dumas form to join the Zemgor
June 1915
Congress of representatives of industry and business established to organise war production
1914
July days
3-7 July 1917
Failed Kerensky offensive
June 1917
Kornilov affair
10th-13th September 1917
Lenin returns to Petrograd after July days
7th October 1917
Kerensky sends radical troops away from Petrograd, and MRC established
9th October 1917
15/ 18 armed units in Petrograd support Bolsheviks
23rd October 1917
Bolsheviks capture Petrograd, Kerensky flees and the power is transferred to the soviets
24-25th October 1917
Second congress of soviets ‘approves’ the October revolution
26th October
Decree on Peace
27th October 1917
Decree on Land
27th October 1917
Degree on worker’s control
November 1917
Degree on the rights of the people of Russia
November 1917
Cheka established
9th December 1917
Constituent assembly elections
November 1917
Constituent assembly closed and protestors fired on
5th January 1918
