Russian Revolution Dates Flashcards
Nicholas II becomes Tzar of Russia
1894
Foundation of the Social-Democrat Workers’ Party
1898
Formation of the Socialist Revolutionists or Socialist Agrarians Party
1901
First Revolution
1905
Foundation of the Saint Petersburg Soviet by Trostky
1905
Russia intervenes in WW1
August 1914
Spontaneous revolution in Petrograd
February 1917
Abdication of the Tzar
March 1917
Provisional Government
March-October 1917
Bolshevik Revolution
October 1917
Creation of the secret political police known as the Checa
December 1917
Brest Litovsk Peace Treaty
March 1918
Dissolving of the Constitutional Assembly
June 1918
Execution of Nicolas II
July 1918
Russian Civil War
1918-1921
Foundation of the Komiterm or Third International
March 1919
NEP (New Political Economy) (Y-Y)
1921-1928
Birth of the USSR
December 1922
Lenin Dies
January 1924
USSR First Constitution
January 1924
Fight for Power between Trotsky and Stalin (Stalin wins) (Y-Y)
1923-1929
Trotsky kicked out of USSR
1929
Joseph Stalin’s Economic Plan: First five-year plan
1929-1933
Agrarian collectivization and Complete State Control of the Economy
1929
Great Famine
1932
Second five-year plan
1934-1938
Establishment of secret Soviet Police (NKVD)
1934
Second Constitution
January 1936
Moscow Trials
1936-1939
Third Five-Year Plan
1939-1941