Russia AOS2 Key Dates

Question 1

Constituent Assembly Elections Begin

Answer 1

12th November 1917

Question 2

Kadet Party Banned (Leaders Arrested)

Answer 2

28th November 1917

Question 3

Ceasefire with Germany

Answer 3

2nd December 1917

Question 4

Cheka Created

Answer 4

7th December 1917

Question 5

Constituent Assembly Convened and Dissolved

Answer 5

5th-6th January 1918

Question 6

Change to Gregorian Calender

Answer 6

1st February 1918 becomes 14th February 1918

Question 7

Germany Army Resumes Offensive after Peace Talks Breakdown

Answer 7

18th February 1918

Question 8

Red Army Founded

Answer 8

23rd February 1918

Question 9

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

Answer 9

3rd March 1918

Question 10

Bolshevik Party Rename to Communists

Answer 10

8th March 1918

Question 11

Capital Moved to Moscow

Answer 11

12th March 1918

Question 12

Left SRs Leave Sovnarkom

Answer 12

15th March 1918

Question 13

State Capitalism Established

Answer 13

April 1918

Question 14

Czech Legion Revolt

Answer 14

22nd May 1918

Question 15

Terror Campaign (Decree on Red Terror)

Answer 15

5th September 1918 - 1921

Question 16

Right SRs & Mensheviks Expelled from Soviet CEC

Answer 16

14th June 1918

Question 17

Decree on Nationalisation (Establishment of War Communism)

Answer 17

28th June 1918

Question 18

Left SRs Expelled from Soviet CEC

Answer 18

9th July 1918

Question 19

Tsar Nicholas & Family Executed

Answer 19

17th July 1918

Question 20

Civil War

Answer 20

1918-1922 (note dates may vary)

Question 21

Lenin Assassination Attempt (Fanya Kaplan)

Answer 21

30th August 1918

Question 22

WW1 Formally Ends

Answer 22

11th November 1918

Question 23

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk Renounced

Answer 23

13th November 1918

Question 24

Grain Requisitioning Squads Begin Prodrazverstka (‘Food Quota Seizures’)

Answer 24

January 1919

Question 25

Russo-Polish War

Answer 25

26th April 1920 (Invasion of Ukraine by Poland) -18th March 1921 (Treaty of Riga)

Question 26

Armistice Signed with Poland

Answer 26

12th October 1920

Question 27

Kronstadt Sailors Call for New Government in ‘What We Are Fighting For’

Answer 27

1st March 1921

Question 28

Red Army Begin Attack on Kronstadt

Answer 28

7th March 1921

Question 29

Famine of 1921

Answer 29

June & July 1921

Question 30

Cheka Renamed GPU

Answer 30

6th February 1922

Question 31

USSR Formed

Answer 31

23rd September 1922

Question 32

GPU (previously Cheka) Renamed OGPU

Answer 32

6th July 1923

Question 33

Lenin Dies (boohoo)

Answer 33

21st January 1924

Question 34

Lenin’s Funeral

Answer 34

27th January 1924

Question 35

Tenth Party Congress (NEP Introduced)

Answer 35

8th - 16th March 1921

Question 36

The Petropavlosk Resolution (15 Point List of Kronstadt Demands)

Answer 36

28th February 1921

Question 37

The Socialist Fatherland is in Danger! Decree

Answer 37

21st February 1918

Question 38

Decree on Suppression of Hostile Newspapers

Answer 38

27th October 1917

Question 39

Decree on the Eight-Hour Day

Answer 39

29th October 1917

Question 40

Decree on Peace / Decree on Land

Answer 40

26th October 1917

Question 41

Kronstadt Revolt Suppressed

Answer 41

16th March 1921