Russia Timeline Flashcards
WW1
1914
Advance into AuG
Aug
1914
Battle of Tannenburg
Aug
1914
Battle of Mansurian Lakes
Dec
1914
Aug forced RU retreat
May
1915
Tsar commands RU
Aug
1915
DE+Ah controlled 13% of RU
1915
Brusilov offensive
June
1916
All gains lost
WInter
1916
Harsh winter
1917
Rodzianko told Tsar that he could not rely on closest supporters
Feb 14
1917
Strike at Putilov engineering works, want higher wages because of inflation
Feb 18
1917
Many women joined 100000 strikers in Petrograd
Feb 23
200000 strikers
Feb 24
1917
Strikes all over the city, 300000 demostrators, no newspapers, public transport, police sympathise with protestors
Feb 25
1917
Tsar told army to restore order, some deserted
Feb 26
Buildings looted, Petrograd garrison mutinied, Tsar ordered Duma to dissolve, 12 refused and formed the provisional Committee, first meeting of Petrograd Soviet
Feb 27
1917
Soviet issues newspapers, declaring intentions of removing old system of govt
Feb 28
1917
PS ordered SONI
March 1
1917
Tsar abdicates
March 2
1917
PC=>PG
March 3
1917
Lenin returns from exile with the April Thesis
April
1917
July Days
July
1917
40 Bolshevik newspaper
July 1917
Lenin in exile again
July
1917
Kornilov revolt
Sept
1917
Trotsky, chair of Petrograd Soviet
Sept 25
1917
250000 Bolsheviks in party
Oct 7
1917
Lenin got Bolshevik Central Committee to agree to an uprising
Oct 10
1917
Army loyal to Trotsky
Oct 21
1917
Kerensky shut down Bolshevik newspaper
Oct 24
1917
Trotsky+MRC surround Winter Palace
Oct 24
1917
Kerensky fled, Women’s Battalion surrendered
Oct 25
1917
Winter Palace taken, PG arrested, Bolshevik majority
Oct 26
1917
Elections for CA
Nov 17
1917
Closed CA
Jan 18
1918
Treaty of Brest Litovsk signed
March
1918
Civil war
1918
War Communism
1918
Rebellion in the Tambov region
1920
Kronstadt mutiny
March
1920
Death of Lenin
1924
