Russian consequences dates Flashcards
October 27 1917
- decrees on land and the press
- Sovnarkom and Central Executive Committee formed
31 October 1917
fighting in Moscow between Milrevcom and pro-PG forces
2 November 1917
- Milrevcom troops gain grain control in Moscow
- Declaration of the Rights of the People of Russia decree
10 November 1917
formal ranks and titles abolished
12 November 1917
elections for constituent assembly begin
14 November 1917
state bank refuses to hand money to government
22 November 1917
criminal justice system replaced by people’s courts
28 November 1917
Kadets banned and leaders arrested
December 2 1917
ceasefire with Germany
5 December 1917
decree on marriage
7 December 1917
Cheka created
9-10 December 1917
left SRs enter Sovnarkom
14 December 1917
banks nationalised
16 December 1917
formal ranks and saluting abolished in armed forces
1 January 1918
assassination attempt on Lenin
5 January 1918
constituent assembly opens
6 January 1918
constituent assembly dissolved by government
8 January 1918
this all-russian soviet congress declares ‘soviet republic’
21 January 1918
foreign debts cancelled
23 January 1918
decree on separation and church and state
28 January 1918
ukraine declares independence and this is not recognised
1 feb 1918
Gregorian calendar introduced
18 feb 1918
fighting with Germany resumes after stalled talks in Brest-Livosk
3 march 1918
Brest-Livosk signed by Sovnarkom
8 march 1918
bolshevik SDs change name to communist party
10 march 1918
Russian capital moved to Moscow
15 march
left SRs withdraw from Sovnarkom
April 1918
formal recognition of state capitalism
23 feb 1918
Red Army founds
22 may 1918
Czech Legion overthrows soviets along trans-siberian
8 June 1918
formation of SR-dominated komuch
11 June 1918
formation of committees of poor
14 June 1918
rights SRs and Mensheviks expelled from soviets
28 June 1918
war communism begins
July 1918
class based rationing begins
5-6 July 1918
SR uprising, von Mirbach assassinated
9 July 1918
left SRs expelled from soviets
17 July 1918
tsar and family executed
19 July 1918
constitution ratified by fifth congress of soviets
2-4 august 1918
American and British troops land at Vladivostok
30 august 1918
Petrograd Cheka chief assasinated, Kaplan wounds Lenin
5 septemer 1918
decree on red terror
23 September 1918
kombucha becomes provincial all-russian government
11 November 1918
armistice between central powers and allies
13 November 1918
soviets renege treaty of Brest-livosk
18 November 1918
kolchak overthrows provincial all-russian government
21 November 1918
private trade banned
30 November 1918
ban on Mensheviks lifted
2 December 1918
committees of poor dissolved
January 1919
- decossakisation begins
- grain requisitioning begins
feb 1919
ban on SRs lifted
4 march 1919
kolchak’s campaigns in Siberia and urals begin
2-6 march 1919
first congress of comintern
April 1919
first subbotnik (communist Sunday)
11 April 1919
forced labour camps begin
may 1919
first campaign by yudenich against Petrograd
15 may 1919
hyperinflation after state bank told to print more money
June 4 1919
mahkno’s green uprising in Ukraine begins
November 1919
second campaign against pertogrwad by yudenich
7 feb 1920
execution of kolchak
26 April 1920
polish-soviet war begins
august 1920
outbreak of green resistance in Tambov
October 12 1920
armistice between Poland and Russia
15 oct 1920
communism and the family by kollontai
14 November 1920
last of white armies leave Crimea
feb 1921
mass strikes in Moscow and petrograd
feb 22 1921
GOSPLAN planning commission established
1 march 1921
Kronstadt sailors call for soviets without communists
7 march 1921
launch of red army assume on Kronstadt
8-16 march 1921
NEP introduced in tenth party congress
17 march 1921
red army captures Kronstadt
18 march 1921
treaty of Riga between Poland and Soviet Union
July and July 1921
disastrous harvest and severe famine
august 24 1921
execution of poet Nikolai Gumilev
6 feb 1922
Cheka renamed GPU
26 feb 1922
church resists confiscation of riches for famine relief
16 march 1922
trade agreement with Britain
3 April 1922
Stalin appointed general secretary
26 may 1922
Lenin’s first stroke
may to September 1922
repression and deportation of soviet intellectuals
6 June 1922
start of SRs ‘show trials’
23 September 1922
USSR formed
15 December 1922
Lenin’s second stroke
25 December 1922
lenin dictates testament
4 jan 1923
lenin urges removal of Stalin from genera; secretary role
10 march 1923
third stroke
17-25 April
scissors crisis analysed by trotsky
jan 21 1924
lenin dies
23-27 jan 1924
mourners pay respects to Lenin’s corpse in Moscow
26 jan 1924
Petrograd renamed leningrad
may 1924
13th party congress
oct 1924
red army reorganised and troop numbers reduced
17 December 1924
Stalin espouses theory of socialism in one country
1926
- revised decree o n marriage, the family and guardianship
- trotsky, zonoviev and kamenev unite against stalin
jan 1925
trotsky replaced as commissar for war
April 1925
stalingrad
December 1925
further industrialisation backed by 14th party congress
oct and nov 1927
zinoviev, kamenev and trotsky expelled from party
1928
new economic policy abandoned by Stalin