Russian Revolution AOS 2 Dates

Question 1

November 10th 1917

Answer 1

The new government abolishes all tsarist ranks, titles and privileges.

Question 2

November 12th 1917

Answer 2

Elections for the Constituent Assembly commence. These elections take a week to complete and produce a voter turnout of 44 million people.

Question 3

November 19th 1917

Answer 3

A Bolshevik delegation begins peace negotiations with German offices at Brest-Litovsk

Question 4

December 7th 1917

Answer 4

Lenin decrees the formation of the CHEKA, a small agency led by Dzerzhinsky and tasked with combating counter-revolutionary activity. It begins with 26 agents.

Question 5

December 9th 1917

Answer 5

Members of the Left SRs are admitted to Sovnarkom, the executive government body of the new government.

Question 6

January 19th 1918

Answer 6

Bolshevik guards close down the new Constituent Assembly after just one day. The assembly is effectively dissolved and does not meet again.

Question 7

February 1918

Answer 7

Bolshevik edicts enforce the separation of church and state; religious worship becomes a matter of choice.

Question 8

February 10th 1918

Answer 8

The offical formation of the Red Army. Leon Trotsky is appointed war commissar.

Question 9

March 3rd 1918

Answer 9

Trotsky signs the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, ending Russia’s involvement in WW1. The treaty surrunders large amount of land, people and resources to the Germans.

Question 10

March 6th 1918

Answer 10

The Bolshevik party changes its offical name to the Russian Communist Party.

Question 11

April 1918

Answer 11

British and French troops land in outlying port cities, the first instances of foreign intervention in the Russian Civil War.

Question 12

May 14th 1918

Answer 12

A 30,000 strong Czech Legion, making its way through Russia joins counter-revolutionaries determined to remove the Soviet government.

Question 13

June 1918

Answer 13

The Czech Legion, along with SRs and other White forces, put an end to Bolshevik control in many rural areas.

Question 14

June 28th 1918

Answer 14

Vesenkha, the Soviet economic committee announces its policy of ‘war communism’

Question 15

July 1918

Answer 15

The CHEKA, now numbering more than 10,000 personnel, respond to the Moscow uprising by purging and executing Left SRs.

Question 16

July 17th 1918

Answer 16

The Romanov family and their entourage are shot by a local CHEKA detachment while under house arrest in Ekaterinburg.

Question 17

July 1918

Answer 17

US President Woodrow Wilson approves a 5,000 strong American force to support the White Army in northern Russia.

Question 18

August 19th 1918

Answer 18

Lenin issues his famous ‘hanging order’ demanding the public execution of a hundred kulaks in Penza.

Question 19

January 1919

Answer 19

The Sovnarkom formally announces the beginning of prodrazvyorstka.

Question 20

January 1919

Answer 20

The Mensheviks are granted legal status as an offical party and are allowed to publish a newspaper.

Question 21

February 1919

Answer 21

The CHEKA closes down the Menshevik newspaper after it published strong criticism of Bolshevik policy.

Question 22

February 1920

Answer 22

White army commander Kolchak is captured and executed.

Question 23

April 1920

Answer 23

Fighting intensifies in Poland, where the Poles drive back the Red Army and reclaim more territory.

Question 24

November 1920

Answer 24

Most major fighting in the Civl war is concluded, though localised skirmishes and peasant uprisings still continue.

Question 25

February 28th 1921

Answer 25

Rebellious sailors in Kronstadt meet, vote to form their own soviet and call for “Soviet without Bolsheviks.” They draw up a 15-point list of demands for the national government and ready themselves to fight against a Red Army incursion.

Question 26

March 1921

Answer 26

The Tenth Party Congress of the Communist Party. Lenin announces the New Economic Policy (NEP) and demands an end to factionalism in the party. Red Army troops enter the streets of Kronstadt and arrest the last rebel sailors.

Question 27

August 1921

Answer 27

An American famine relief group agrees to distribute millions of tons of grain in Russia.

Question 28

February 1922

Answer 28

The Soviet Government replaces the CHEKA with a new security agency, the OGPU, which is also headed by Dzerzhinsky.

Question 29

April 1922

Answer 29

Joseph Stalin is appointed General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

Question 30

December 1922

Answer 30

Lenin proclaims the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, a federation of all Soviet States.

Question 31

March 1923

Answer 31

Lenin suffers a third stroke that leaves him paralysed and barley able to speak.

Question 32

May 1923

Answer 32

Lenin is removed to a party sanatorium, Stalin is given responsibility for attending to his security, medical needs and well being.

Question 33

October 1923

Answer 33

The ‘scissors crisis’ a gross difference between the availability of agriculture and manufactured goods, reaches its peak.

Question 34

January 1924

Answer 34

Lenin passes away after a fourth severe stroke. He is later embalmed and preserved in a mausoleum in Red Square, while the city of Petrograd is renamed Leningrad in his honour.

Question 35

February 1924

Answer 35

The USSR is formally recognised by Great Britain and other Commonwealth Nations.