Key Dates

Question 1

1894

Answer 1

Nicholas becomes tsar

Question 2

January 1905

Answer 2

Bloody sunday

Question 3

October 1905

Answer 3

October manifesto

Question 4

July 1914

Answer 4

WW1 starts, russia declares war on Germany and Austria-Hungary

Question 5

26th august 1914

Answer 5

Battle of Tannenburg: major losses for Russia

Question 6

2nd Sept 1914

Answer 6

Mesurian Lakes

Question 7

what does Nicholas make himself in 1915?

Answer 7

Commander and chief of the army

Question 8

December 1916

Answer 8

Rasputin is murdered

Question 9

What happened in January 1917?

Answer 9

Workers strikes

Question 10

February 1917

Answer 10

February Revolution begins

Question 11

3rd March 1917

Answer 11

Nicholas’ abdication

Question 12

what 2 things were established on the 1st-2nd of March 1917?

Answer 12

Provisional Government
Order no.1

Question 13

what was started on the 12th March 1917?

Answer 13

Petrograd Soviet

Question 14

april 16th 1917

Answer 14

Lenin returns from exile

Question 15

what did lenin publish in april 1917?

Answer 15

April theses

Question 16

june 1917

Answer 16

first all russian congress soviet

Question 17

1st-19th july 1917

Answer 17

kerensky offensive

Question 18

3rd-5th July 1917

Answer 18

july days

Question 19

18th july 1917

Answer 19

Kerensky made prime minister

Question 20

26th-30th august 1917

Answer 20

Kornilov coup

Question 21

what organisation is established in august by Trotsky?

Answer 21

The Red Guard

Question 22

26th September 1917

Answer 22

Trotsky made chairman of pet.sov committee

Question 23

9th OCTOBER 1917: what does trotsky establish in petrograd?

Answer 23

creates military revoloutionary centre to protect petrograd

Question 24

10th OCTOBER 1917: what does lenin do after returning x2?

Answer 24

harangues the central committee all night

Question 25

16th OCTOBER 1917: what is established by trotsky and Dzerzhinsky?

Answer 25

military revoloutionary committee

Question 26

23rd OCTOBER 1917:

Answer 26

Kerensky tries to control bolseviks by shutting down their newspapers

Question 27

24th OCTOBER 1917: (rev day 1)

Answer 27

Kronstadt sailors and bolsheviks start taking over key buildings with the Red guard

Question 28

25th OCTOBER 1917: (rev day 2)

Answer 28

1. kerensky attempts to rally military support -leaves Petrograd 2. Revoloutionaries go to winter palace. 3. battleship aurora shoots, starts the rev 4. red guard enters easily 5. 2nd congress covened - no lenin. 6. protests break out in the streets

Question 29

26th OCTOBER 1917: (rev day 3)

Answer 29

arrest of remaining prov.gov members 2nd congress: lenins decree on peace voted unanimously.

Question 30

which decree was passed on the 26th october 1917?

Answer 30

Peace

Question 31

which decree was passed on the 27th october 1917?

Answer 31

Land