Russia AOS1: Key Dates Flashcards
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Nicholas II becomes Tsar of Russia
1894
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Sergei Witte Industrial Reforms:
- Built Trans-Siberian Railway
- Stabilised Russian Economy
- Created poor working conditions, severe overcrowding
1893-1903
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Russo-Japanese War
1904-1905
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Alexander II (Nicholas II’s grandfather): Emancipation Edict
1861
- Establishment of mir: Village Commune
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Zemstvos: Elected local council
- Control over local finance, health care, education, maintenance, etc.
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Bloody Sunday
9 January 1905
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Battle of Tsushima
- Russian navi demolished in 24 hours by Japanese navy
May 1905
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Mutiny of the battle ship Potemkin
July 1905
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Army troops mutiny and control section of Trans-Siberian Railway
September 1905
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Establishment of St Petersburg Soviet by Trotsky
October 1905
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General Strikes halt the Russian economy
October 1905
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Tsar Nicholas II releases the October Manifesto
17 October 1905
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Tsar Nicholas II releases Fundamental State Laws
April 1906
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First Duma
April-July 1906
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Second Duma
February-June 1907
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Tsar changes electoral laws
1907
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Third Duma
1907-1912
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Fourth Duma
1912-1917
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Stolypin first in Office
July 1906
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Lena Goldfields Massacre
April 1912
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Stolypin Assassinated
October 1911
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Increase in strikes
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Russia enters WW1
1 August 1914
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WW1 - by 1915:
- No. men killed
- No. men captured
WW1 - by 1915:
- No. men killed: 4 million
- No. men captured: 16 million
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Bolshevik ideology spreads through the army (Ruzski)
- ‘The influenceo f Bolshevik ideas is spreading very rapidly’ ~General Ruzski
December 1916
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Tsar Nicholas II becomes Commander of Russian Army
August 1915
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International Women’s Day strike - 90,000 strikers
23 February 1917
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Day that the soldiers began to join protesters
26 February 1917
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Tsar approves formation of Provisional Gov’t
1 March 1917
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Tsar Nicholas Abdicates
2 March 1917
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Formation of Provisional Gov’t
27 February 1917
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Formation of Petrograd Soviet
28 February 1917
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Soviet Order No. 1 Released
- Ordered that any military orders given by the Prov Gov’t ‘shall be executed only in such cases as they do not conflict iwth the orders and resolutions of the Soviet’
1 March 1917
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June Offensive
18 June 1917
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Lenin Returns to Russia
April 1917
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Lenin releases April Theses
- No support for the Provisional Gov’t
- It must be explained to the masses that the Soviet… [is] the only possible form of the revolutionary gov’t…
- Confiscation of all landed estates… Disposal of land to be put in charge of the local soviets
4 April 1917
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July Days
July 1917
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Kornilov Revolt
August 1917
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October Revolution
24 October 1917
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Bolsheviks consolidate power
2 November 1917
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Bolsheviks take over Moscow
31 October 1917
