Russia dates Flashcards

1
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Crimean War

A

1854-56

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2
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Emancipation of the Serfs

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1861

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3
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Assassination of Alexander II

A

1881

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4
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Reign of Alexander III

A

1881-1894

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5
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Witte’s reforms

A

1894-1906

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6
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Jewish Bund formed

A

1897

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7
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SD party formed

A

1898

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8
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SR party formed

A

1901

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9
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SD’s split into Bolsheviks and Mensheviks

A

1903

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10
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Russo-Japanese War

A

1904-5

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11
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Kadets formed

A

1905

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12
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Octobrists formed

A

1905

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13
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Bloody Sunday

A

22nd January 1905

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14
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Unions of Unions formed

A

May 1905

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15
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Potemkin mutiny

A

June 1905

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16
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October manifesto

A

October 1905

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17
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Moscow Soviet set up

A

November 1905

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18
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First Duma

A

1906

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19
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Stolypin as chief minister

A

1906-1911

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20
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Fundamental Laws issued

A

1906

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21
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Second Duma

A

1907

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22
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Third Duma

A

1907-1912

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23
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Goldfields episode

A

1912

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24
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Fourth Duma

A

1912-1914

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25
Q

Germany declare war on Russia

A

1st August 1914

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26
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Russias full mobilisation orders are given

A

30th June 1914

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27
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Fourth Duma reconvened

A

June/July 1915

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28
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Progressive Bloc formed in Duma

A

25th June 1915

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29
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Nicholas II becomes commander-in-chief of army

A

22nd August 1915

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30
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Putilov strikes

A

18th February 1917

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31
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February revolution

A

18th February - 4th March 1917

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32
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International Womens day leads to widespread strikes

A

23rd February 1917

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33
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Nicholas is prevented from returning to Petrograd

A

28th February 1917

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34
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Provisional Government formed from the Duma commitee

A

2nd March 1917

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35
Q

Tsars abdication made public

A

4th March 1917

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36
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Lenins April Thesis

A

4th April 1917

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37
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Bolsheviks Red Guards formed

A

20th April 1917

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38
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Start of Russian offensive against Austria

A

16th June 1917

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39
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Failure of the July Days

A

3rd-6th July 1917

40
Q

Kornilov Affair

A

1st September 1917

41
Q

Bolshevik uprising against Kerenskys government

A

25th-26th October 1917

42
Q

Establish Sovnarkom

A

26th October 1917

43
Q

Congress of Soviets passed decrees on peace and land

A

26th October 1917

44
Q

Lenin takes power in the name of the Soviets

A

27th October 1917

45
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Bolsheviks issues decrees on land and workers

A

November 1917

46
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Cheka created

A

December 1917

47
Q

Russian Civil War

A

1918-1920

48
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War communism

A

1918-1921

49
Q

Bolshevik dissolve the constituent assembly

A

January 1918

50
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Red Army established

A

January 1918

51
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Decree on separation of church and state

A

January 1918

52
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Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

A

March 1918

53
Q

Decree on Nationalism

A

June 1918

54
Q

Forced grain requisitions

A

July 1918

55
Q

Murder of the Tsar and his family

A

July 1918

56
Q

Comintern established

A

March 1919

57
Q

Bolshevik remained the Communist Party

A

1919

58
Q

Krondstadt Rising

A

March 1921

59
Q

Introduction of the NEP

A

1921

60
Q

Decree against factionalism

A

1921

61
Q

Soviet state becomes USSR

A

December 1922

62
Q

Scissor crisis

A

1923

63
Q

Death of Lenin

A

1924

64
Q

Trosky stops being war commisionar

A

1925

65
Q

Kamanev and Zinoviev united opposition

A

1925

66
Q

Trotsky joins Kamanev and Zinoviev on the left political bloc

A

1926

67
Q

Komsomol created

A

1926

68
Q

Trotsky dismissed form central committee

A

1927

69
Q

Trotsky sent into exile

A

1927

70
Q

Stalin attacks Right over agricultural policy

A

1928

71
Q

Collectivisation begins

A

1928

72
Q

First 5 year plan

A

1928

73
Q

New religious persecution campaigns

A

1928

74
Q

Rasputin murdered

A

1st December 1916

75
Q

Leading figures on the right are finally defeated and demoted in CSPU

A

1929

76
Q

Trial of the Ryutin group

A

1932-1933

77
Q

Start of second Five Year Plan

A

1933

78
Q

Purges being under Yezhov

A

1933

79
Q

Legal system brought under Stalins control

A

1933-34

80
Q

Assassination of Kirov

A

1934

81
Q

Stakhanovite movement

A

1935

82
Q

New Soviet Constitution

A

1936

83
Q

Family laws restricting abortion, divorce and homosexuality

A

1936

84
Q

Housewives movement

A

1936

85
Q

Show trials

A

1936-1938

86
Q

Repression of Soviet creative artists

A

1936-1939

87
Q

Great Purge of the party, army and the people

A

1936-1939

88
Q

Start of 3rd FYP

A

1938

89
Q

Literacy rates reach 88%

A

1940

90
Q

500 churches are open, compared to 50,00 in 1917

A

1940

91
Q

German invasion and occupation of Russia

A

1941

92
Q

Purges remove those who undermine the war effort

A

1941-1945

93
Q

Purges of the Soviet people who were thought to support Germany

A

1945

94
Q

Leningrad Affair leads to another purge of the party

A

1949

95
Q

Doctors plot means a purge of the medical profession

A

1953

96
Q

Stalin dies

A

1953