Key Dates

Question 1

When was the emancipation of the Serfs?

Answer 1

1861

Question 2

When were the May Laws?

Answer 2

1882 (repealed 1905)

Question 3

When was the Okhrana’s University Statute implemented?

Answer 3

1884

Question 4

When did Nicholas II become Tsar?

Answer 4

1894

Question 5

When did Zubatov introduce Police Socialism into the Okhrana?

Answer 5

1896

Question 6

When were the Social Democrats formed?

Answer 6

1898

Question 7

When did General Bobrikov abolish the Finnish legal system and replace it with Russian law?

Answer 7

1899

Question 8

When were the Social Revolutionaries formed?

Answer 8

1902

Question 9

When was the League of Liberation formed?

Answer 9

1903

Question 10

When did the Okhrana implement their Temporary Regulations?

Answer 10

1903

Question 11

When did the Social Democrats split into the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks?

Answer 11

1903

Question 12

When was General Bobrikov assassinated?

Answer 12

1904

Question 13

When was the League of Liberation’s first programme?

Answer 13

1904

Question 14

When did the Social Revolutionaries assassinate the Minister of the Interior?

Answer 14

1904

Question 15

When was the Ukase issued?

Answer 15

1904

Question 16

When was the Russo-Japanese War?

Answer 16

1904-1905

Question 17

When did the Russians surrender Port Arthur to the Japanese?

Answer 17

January 1905

Question 18

When was Bloody Sunday?

Answer 18

January 1905

Question 19

When was the Battle of Tsushima?

Answer 19

May 1905

Question 20

When was the mutiny of Battleship Potemkin?

Answer 20

June 1905

Question 21

When was the August Manifesto?

Answer 21

August 1905

Question 22

When was the Jewish Massacre in Odessa?

Answer 22

October 1905

Question 23

When was the St. Petersburg Soviet set up?

Answer 23

October 1905

Question 24

When was the October manifesto?

Answer 24

October 1905

Question 25

When was the Union of Russian People set up?

Answer 25

November 1905

Question 26

When was the Electoral Law issued?

Answer 26

December 1905

Question 27

When was the first Duma?

Answer 27

1906

Question 28

When were the Fundamental Laws introduced?

Answer 28

1906

Question 29

When was the Vyborg Manifesto issued?

Answer 29

1906

Question 30

When did Stolypin introduce the Wager on the Strong?

Answer 30

1906

Question 31

When did Stolypin declare a state of emergency?

Answer 31

August 1906

Question 32

When was Stolypin’s first phase of repression?

Answer 32

1906-1907

Question 33

When was the Second Duma?

Answer 33

1907

Question 34

When was Stolypin’s electoral law?

Answer 34

1907

Question 35

When was Stolypin’s 2nd phase of repression?

Answer 35

1907-1914

Question 36

When was the Third Duma?

Answer 36

1907-1912

Question 37

When was the Fourth Duma?

Answer 37

1912-1917

Question 38

When did the SRS found out Azef was a police informant?

Answer 38

1909

Question 39

When was Stolypin assassinated?

Answer 39

September 1911

Question 40

When were the newspapers Pravda and Luch founded?

Answer 40

1912

Question 41

When was the Lena Goldfields massacre?

Answer 41

April 1912

Question 42

When did Germany declare war on Russia?

Answer 42

July 1914

Question 43

When was St Petersburg renamed Petrograd?

Answer 43

August 1914

Question 44

When was the Battle of Tannenburg?

Answer 44

August 1914

Question 45

When was the Battle of the Masurian Lakes?

Answer 45

September 1914

Question 46

When was the Zemgor established?

Answer 46

1915

Question 47

When was the Great Retreat?

Answer 47

Late 1915

Question 48

When did the Tsar become commander-in-chief?

Answer 48

1915

Question 49

When was the 4th Duma recalled and the Progressive Bloc formed?

Answer 49

1915

Question 50

When was the Brusilov Offensive?

Answer 50

June 1916

Question 51

When was the Leapfrog of Ministers?

Answer 51

1916

Question 52

When was Rasputin assassinated?

Answer 52

December 1916