Russia AOS1: Key Dates Flashcards

1
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Key Dates

Nicholas II becomes Tsar of Russia

A

1894

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2
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Sergei Witte Industrial Reforms:

  • Built Trans-Siberian Railway
  • Stabilised Russian Economy
  • Created poor working conditions, severe overcrowding
A

1893-1903

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3
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Russo-Japanese War

A

1904-1905

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4
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Alexander II (Nicholas II’s grandfather): Emancipation Edict

A

1861

  • Establishment of mir: Village Commune
  • Zemstvos: Elected local council
    • Control over local finance, health care, education, maintenance, etc.
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5
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Key Dates

Bloody Sunday

A

9 January 1905

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6
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Battle of Tsushima

  • Russian navi demolished in 24 hours by Japanese navy
A

May 1905

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7
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Mutiny of the battle ship Potemkin

A

July 1905

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8
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Army troops mutiny and control section of Trans-Siberian Railway

A

September 1905

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9
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Establishment of St Petersburg Soviet by Trotsky

A

October 1905

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10
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General Strikes halt the Russian economy

A

October 1905

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11
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Tsar Nicholas II releases the October Manifesto

A

17 October 1905

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12
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Tsar Nicholas II releases Fundamental State Laws

A

April 1906

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13
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Key Dates

First Duma

A

April-July 1906

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14
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Second Duma

A

February-June 1907

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15
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Key Dates

Tsar changes electoral laws

A

1907

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16
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Third Duma

A

1907-1912

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17
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Fourth Duma

A

1912-1917

18
Q

Key Dates

Stolypin first in Office

A

July 1906

19
Q

Key Dates

Lena Goldfields Massacre

A

April 1912

20
Q

Key Dates

Stolypin Assassinated

A

October 1911

21
Q

Key Dates

Increase in strikes

A

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22
Q

Key Dates

Russia enters WW1

A

1 August 1914

23
Q

Key Dates

WW1 - by 1915:

  • No. men killed
  • No. men captured
A

WW1 - by 1915:

  • No. men killed: 4 million
  • No. men captured: 16 million
24
Q

Key Dates

Bolshevik ideology spreads through the army (Ruzski)

  • ‘The influenceo f Bolshevik ideas is spreading very rapidly’ ~General Ruzski
A

December 1916

25
Q

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Tsar Nicholas II becomes Commander of Russian Army

A

August 1915

26
Q

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International Women’s Day strike - 90,000 strikers

A

23 February 1917

27
Q

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Day that the soldiers began to join protesters

A

26 February 1917

28
Q

Key Dates

Tsar approves formation of Provisional Gov’t

A

1 March 1917

29
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Tsar Nicholas Abdicates

A

2 March 1917

30
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Key Dates

Formation of Provisional Gov’t

A

27 February 1917

31
Q

Key Dates

Formation of Petrograd Soviet

A

28 February 1917

32
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Key Dates

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’
A

1 March 1917

33
Q

Key Dates

June Offensive

A

18 June 1917

34
Q

Key Dates

Lenin Returns to Russia

A

April 1917

35
Q

Key Dates

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
A

4 April 1917

36
Q

Key Dates

July Days

A

July 1917

37
Q

Key Dates

Kornilov Revolt

A

August 1917

38
Q

Key Dates

October Revolution

A

24 October 1917

39
Q

Key Dates

Bolsheviks consolidate power

A

2 November 1917

40
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Key Dates

Bolsheviks take over Moscow

A

31 October 1917