Russia AOS2 Key Dates Flashcards
Constituent Assembly Elections Begin
12th November 1917
Kadet Party Banned (Leaders Arrested)
28th November 1917
Ceasefire with Germany
2nd December 1917
Cheka Created
7th December 1917
Constituent Assembly Convened and Dissolved
5th-6th January 1918
Change to Gregorian Calender
1st February 1918 becomes 14th February 1918
Germany Army Resumes Offensive after Peace Talks Breakdown
18th February 1918
Red Army Founded
23rd February 1918
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
3rd March 1918
Bolshevik Party Rename to Communists
8th March 1918
Capital Moved to Moscow
12th March 1918
Left SRs Leave Sovnarkom
15th March 1918
State Capitalism Established
April 1918
Czech Legion Revolt
22nd May 1918
Terror Campaign (Decree on Red Terror)
5th September 1918 - 1921
Right SRs & Mensheviks Expelled from Soviet CEC
14th June 1918
Decree on Nationalisation (Establishment of War Communism)
28th June 1918
Left SRs Expelled from Soviet CEC
9th July 1918
Tsar Nicholas & Family Executed
17th July 1918
Civil War (R)
1918-1922 (note dates may vary)
Lenin Assassination Attempt (Fanya Kaplan)
30th August 1918
WW1 Formally Ends
11th November 1918
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk Renounced
13th November 1918
Grain Requisitioning Squads Begin Prodrazverstka (‘Food Quota Seizures’)
January 1919
Kronstadt Sailors Call for New Government in ‘What We Are Fighting For’
1st March 1921
Red Army Begin Attack on Kronstadt
7th March 1921
Famine of 1921
June & July 1921
Cheka Renamed GPU
6th February 1922
Lenin Dies (boohoo)
21st January 1924
Lenin’s Funeral
27th January 1924
Tenth Party Congress (NEP Introduced)
8th - 16th March 1921
The Petropavlosk Resolution (15 Point List of Kronstadt Demands)
28th February 1921
The Socialist Fatherland is in Danger! Decree
21st February 1918
Decree on Suppression of Hostile Newspapers
27th October 1917
Decree on the Eight-Hour Day
29th October 1917
Decree on Peace / Decree on Land
26th October 1917
Kronstadt Revolt Suppressed
18th March 1921
Decree on Marriage
December 1917
Kronstadt Revolt
1st - 18th March 1921