Russian Revolution: Events dates Flashcards
Russo-Japan War
1904-05
Bloody Sunday
9 January 1905
October Manifesto
17 October 1905
Fundamental State Laws
23 April 1906
First Duma
April to July 1906
Second Duma
February to June 1907
The Third Duma
1907-12
Fourth Duma
1912-17
Lena River Massacre
17 April 1912
118 strikes in St Petersburg
June 1914
Germany declared war on Russia
19 July 1914
Battle of Tannenberg
18 August 1914
Battle of Masurian Lakes
2 September 1914
Tsar appoints himself Commander in Chief of the Russian Armed Forces
5 September 1915
Food riots
1914-16
Strikes in Petrograd
(Febuary revolution)
February - March 1917
Fighting in Petrograd escalates
(Febuary revolution)
February 1917
Tsars train halted
14 March 1915
Tsar Nicholas abdicates
15 March 1917
Provisional Government
March 1917 – October 1917
October Revolution
25 October 1917
Constituent assembly meets and is dissolved
January 1918
Treaty of Brest Litovsk
3 March 1918
Treaty of Versailles
28 June 1918
Decree on Private ownership
6 December 1917
Decree on Religion
9 February 1918
CHEKA formed
December 1917
Russian civil war
1918-1921
Attempt on Lenins life
30 August 1918
Tsar Nicholas II an family asassinated
July 1918
Polish-Soviet war
February 1919- March 1921
War Communism
June 1918 to March 1921.
Treaty of Riga
March 1921
Kronstadt Uprising
7 March 1921 – 17 March 1921
Bread rations cut by 1/3
(War Communism)
January 1921
10,000 workers march on strike in Moscow
23 February 1921
Martial Law declared in Petrograd
25 February 1921
The Kronstadt Revolutionary Committee publishes ‘What Are We Fighting For?’
March 1921
Tenth Party Congress
8 –16 March, 1921
New Economic Policy (NEP)
March 1921 – 1928
Famine is at its peak in Russia
June – July 1921
Lenins death
24 January 1924
Sovnarkrom established
October 1917
June Offensive
18 June 1917
Grain requisitioning
(War communism)
1918-1921
Bogorodsk Rebellion
1 October 1915 (Food riot)
Kornilov affair
27 Aug 1917 – 13 Sept 1917
July days
16-20 July 1917