Russian Revolution AOS 1 Dates

Question 1

1902

Answer 1

Lenin publishes ‘What is to be done.’ Lenin’s plan for Russia and Marxism.

Question 2

1904-1905

Answer 2

Russo-Japanese War. Russia suffers a humiliating defeat.

Question 3

22 January 1905

Answer 3

Bloody Sunday. Father Gapon and Russian workers protest peacefully outside the Tsar’s palace and come presenting a petition. Tsar’s guard opens fire killing 200, injuring 800.

Question 4

June 1905

Answer 4

Mutiny on Battleship Potemkin. Illustrates the extent of unrest in the armed forces.

Question 5

October 1905

Answer 5

St Petersburg Soviet established. Alternative government by the workers.

Question 6

October 1905

Answer 6

October Manifesto. Creation of a representative body, the Duma. Looks to be the beginning of democracy.

Question 7

April 1906

Answer 7

Fundamental Laws. Duma’s power is limited to an advisory body. Tsar remains the autocrat.

Question 8

May 1906

Answer 8

Sacking of Witte. Replaced by Stolypin, begins agrarian reforms.

Question 9

April-June 1906

Answer 9

First Duma. Dominated by Cadets and Social Revolutionaries, attempted to pass reforms. Dissolved, for being to radical.

Question 10

February-June 1907

Answer 10

Second Duma. Dominated by Cadets and SR’s criticised the repression and poor administration of the army resulted in its dissolution

Question 11

June 1907

Answer 11

Electoral reforms. Changed voting franchise to heavily favour property owners. Reduce peasant, workers and ethnic minority vote.

Question 12

1907-1912

Answer 12

Third Duma. Dominated by Octoberists and Rightists.

Question 13

September 1911

Answer 13

Assassination of Stolypin.

Question 14

1912-1917

Answer 14

Fourth Duma. Ultra Conservative.

Question 15

August 1914

Answer 15

Outbreak of World War 1

Question 16

August 1915

Answer 16

Tsar becomes commander of the Armed forces. All military defeats are blamed on the Tsar.

Question 17

23 February 1917

Answer 17

International Women’s Day March. It was joined by many workers, is considered the beginning of the revolution. Many anti-Tsar, pro-revolution speeches were given. Clashes with police and Cossacks.

Question 18

25 February 1917

Answer 18

General Strike in Petrograd. Many from the army join the protestors, protesting against the Tsar.

Question 19

27 February 1917

Answer 19

February Revolution. Petrograd now officially controlled by the striking workers with the assistance of troops from the Petrograd garrison.

Question 20

1 March 1917

Answer 20

Abdication of the Tsar. 300 years of Romanov rule ends.

Question 21

2 March 1917

Answer 21

Soviet Order Number 1. Declares that all orders to the army from the PG are only to be obeyed “when they do not contradict the orders of the Soviet”.

Question 22

3 March 1917

Answer 22

Provisional Government formally declared. Dual authority established.

Question 23

4 April 1917

Answer 23

April Thesis. Lenin’s plan for revolution. ‘Peace, Bread, Land.’

Question 24

18 June 1917

Answer 24

June Offensive. Provisional Government continues WW1, results in 400,000 deaths, many from the army leave.

Question 25

3-5 July 1917

Answer 25

July Days. Large discontent with Provisional government. Not a lot of Soviets ready to begin a revolution. Lenin and other key Bolsheviks go into hiding.

Question 26

9 August 1917

Answer 26

Constituent Assembly elections postponed. This illustrates that the Provisional Government is like the Tsarist government.

Question 27

25-30 August 1917

Answer 27

Kornilov Affair. Keresnky relies on the Bolshevik red amry to defend Petrograd.

Question 28

October 24- November 2 1917

Answer 28

October Revolution. The presentation of the Trotsky-planned coup to the All-Russian Congress of Soviets led to a walk-out of SRs and Mensheviks, leaving the Bolsheviks (and Left SRs) virtually unopposed.