key dates Flashcards

1
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Crimean war

A

1853-56

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2
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Alexander II becomes tsar

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1855

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3
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emancipation edict announced

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1861

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4
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polish revolt/start of emancipation

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1863-64

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5
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zemsvo law and legal reforms/school boards

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1864

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6
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easing of censorship under Alexander II

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1863

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7
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first assassination attempt of Alexander II

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1866

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8
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Russo-Turkish war

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1877-78

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9
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growth of opposition - narodniks, land and liberty, people’s will

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1874-81

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10
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loris malenkov proposal. Alexander II assassinated, Alexander III and the reaction

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1881

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11
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factory inspectorate established

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1882

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12
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peasant land bank

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1883

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13
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land captains

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1889

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14
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famine in seventeen provinces of russia

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1898

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15
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imposition of the medele’ev tariff

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1891

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16
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witte’s great spurt

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1892-3

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17
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rouble placed on gold standard/first census

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1897

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18
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Nicholas II becomes tsar

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1894

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19
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formation of the SDs

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1894

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20
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formation of the SRs

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1901

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21
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SDs split into bolsheviks and mensheviks

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1903

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22
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Russo-Japanese war

23
Q

bloody sunday and october revolution

24
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fundamental laws, start of stolypin’s reforms and the first duma

25
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world war I

A

1914-18 (russia left in 1917)

26
Q

feburary revolution and provisional government decree on land. start of civil war. war communism

27
Q

constituent assembly/constitution formed

28
Q

kronstadt rising/famine - 8m dead/economic collapese/NEP and gosplan

29
Q

declaration of the 46

30
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lenin dead/constitution

31
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1920s famine

32
Q

first 5 year plan

33
Q

mass collectivisation and dekulakisation

34
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1930s famine - 5m dead

35
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the great terror

36
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stalin’s constitution

37
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the winter war

38
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world war II - stalingrad/kursk/leningrad

39
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yalta and potsdam

40
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cold war starts/long telegram/iron curtain speech

41
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tightening of censorship. famine in ukraine

42
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leningrad purged. formation of comecon

43
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formation of east and west germany and china becomes communist

44
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korean war

45
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doctor’s plot

46
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creation of the warsaw plact

47
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hungarian uprising

48
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khrushchev’s rise to power. virgin land scheme

49
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denunciation of stalin in secret speech

50
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khrushchev’s maise growing campaign

51
Q

worker’s riot in novercherkassk

52
Q

cuban missile crisis

53
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agricultural crisis - soil erosion - virgin land scheme

54
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khrushchev falls from power - brezhnev takes power