Russia Flashcards
In 1917, ___% of population were peasants
80
In WW1, price of food and fuel increased by ____%
400
____ million peasants sent to war
15
In WW1, Russia spent _______ million roubles
17,000
In WW1, Russia spent ___ times more
8
Before WW1, _____ wagons of grain a month arrived in Moscow
2200
After WW1, _____ wagons of grain a month arrived in Moscow
700
Tsar leaves Petrograd to visit army HQ
22 Feb 1917
250,000 people demonstrated
23-25 Feb 1917
Soldiers ordered to open fire on demonstrators, 40 killed
26 Feb 1917
Some regiments disobey orders to open fire
27 Feb 1917
Tsar abdicated
2 Mar 1917
Order Number 1
1 Mar 1917
Kornilov Revolt
Aug 1917
By April, Bolsheviks had ______ members
75,000
July Days: _ July and _ July
3 and 7
When hiding in Finland, Lenin wrote “_______________”
State and Revolution
Lenin secretly returned to Petrograd
10 Oct 1917
By Oct 1917, Bolsheviks had ________ members
340,000
Kerensky failed crack-down of Bolsheviks
24 Oct 1917
Bolsheviks captured the Winter Palace
25 Oct 1917
Decree of Peace
8 Nov 1917
Decree of Land
8 Nov 1917
Tsar and family murdered by Bolsheviks
17 July 1918
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk date
Mar 1918
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk: 4 points
- Russia lost all western lands
- Russia lost 62 million people
- Russia lost 27% of all farmland and 74% of iron and coal
- Russia pay Germany 300 million roubles
All non-Bolshevik propaganda banned
Dec 1917
Constituent Assembly shut down
Jan 1918
SRs and Mensheviks arrested
June 1918
Start of Red Terror
Sep 1918
All other political parties banned
1921
End of Red Terrir
Feb 1919
________ - ________ killed in Red Terror
50,000 - 140,000
Kronstadt Mutiny
Mar 1921
War Communism introduced
1918
NEP _____-_____
1921-1924
Women declared equal with men
1917
Zhenotdel, new women’s organisation, established
1919
Abortion legalised
1920
Kollontai made first female ambassador in the world, in Norway.
1923
Women can own property in a relationship
1926
Church land seized
1917
Lenin increased persecution of Orthodox Church
1922
Death of Lenin
Jan 1924
Trotsky loses his job as Commissar for War
1925
United Opposition formed
1926
United Opposition defeated
1927
Zinoviev, Kamenev and Trotsky expelled from Communist Party
1927
Bukharin expelled from Politburo
1929
Trotsky expelled from the USSR
1929
Ex-Mensheviks shots
1931
Murder of Kirov
1934
First show-trials: Zinoviev and Kamenev shot
1936
Order 00447
1937
Bukharin show-trial
1938
Yezhov arrested
Nov 1938
In 1939, ___ million still in labour camps
7
By 1941, ____ Churches remained open
500
In 1914, there were _______ Churches
54,000
New Soviet Constitution
1936
Urals-Siberian Method
1927-28
Stalin launched a campaign to liquidate the kulaks
Dec 1929
30,000 kulaks killed
1930-31
Stalin’s “dizzy with success” speech
1930
Great Famine caused by collectivisation
1932-33
June 1933, _____ died in Ukraine every day from hunger
28,000
First 5 Year Plan
1928-32
Second 5 Year Plan
1933-37
Third 5 Year Plan
1938-41
Stakhanov mined 14 times his quota
31 Aug 1935
In 1928, ___ million people were unemployed
1.3
In 1928, ___ million industrial workers
4.6
1940s, ___ million industrial workers
12.6
Internal passports
1932
By 1934, ___ million internal passports issued
27
In the first 6 months of 1933, ______ peasants arrested for escaping collective farms
400,000
In 1928, coal production ____ million tonnes
35.4
In 1936, coal production ____ million tonnes
64.3
Abortion banned
1936
Mothers with 6 or more kids received _____ roubles a year for 5 years
2000
Divorces cost money
1936
First divorce costs ___ roubles
50
Second divorce costs ___ roubles
150
1937, Women made up ___% of industrial workers
40
Western nationalities purged
1935-36
_______ Soviet-Koreans exiled to Kazakhstan
170,000
Hundreds of thousands of Soviet-Germans exiled to Siberia
1941
