key dates Flashcards
Crimean war
1853-56
Alexander II becomes tsar
1855
emancipation edict announced
1861
polish revolt/start of emancipation
1863-64
zemsvo law and legal reforms/school boards
1864
easing of censorship under Alexander II
1863
first assassination attempt of Alexander II
1866
Russo-Turkish war
1877-78
growth of opposition - narodniks, land and liberty, people’s will
1874-81
loris malenkov proposal. Alexander II assassinated, Alexander III and the reaction
1881
factory inspectorate established
1882
peasant land bank
1883
land captains
1889
famine in seventeen provinces of russia
1898
imposition of the medele’ev tariff
1891
witte’s great spurt
1892-3
rouble placed on gold standard/first census
1897
Nicholas II becomes tsar
1894
formation of the SDs
1894
formation of the SRs
1901
SDs split into bolsheviks and mensheviks
1903
Russo-Japanese war
1904-5
bloody sunday and october revolution
1905
fundamental laws, start of stolypin’s reforms and the first duma
1906
world war I
1914-18 (russia left in 1917)
feburary revolution and provisional government decree on land. start of civil war. war communism
1917
constituent assembly/constitution formed
1918
kronstadt rising/famine - 8m dead/economic collapese/NEP and gosplan
1921
declaration of the 46
1923
lenin dead/constitution
1924
1920s famine
1927-8
first 5 year plan
1928-9
mass collectivisation and dekulakisation
1929-41
1930s famine - 5m dead
1932-4
the great terror
1938-40
stalin’s constitution
1936
the winter war
1939-40
world war II - stalingrad/kursk/leningrad
1943
yalta and potsdam
1945
cold war starts/long telegram/iron curtain speech
1946-7
tightening of censorship. famine in ukraine
1946
leningrad purged. formation of comecon
1949
formation of east and west germany and china becomes communist
1949
korean war
1950-3
doctor’s plot
1953
creation of the warsaw plact
1955
hungarian uprising
1956
khrushchev’s rise to power. virgin land scheme
1953-4
denunciation of stalin in secret speech
1956
khrushchev’s maise growing campaign
1953
worker’s riot in novercherkassk
1962
cuban missile crisis
1962
agricultural crisis - soil erosion - virgin land scheme
1953
khrushchev falls from power - brezhnev takes power
1965