Russian Revolution Timeline Flashcards
Abdication of Tsar Nicholas II
2nd March 1917
Provisional Government Formed
2nd March 1917
Rasputin Murdered
16th December 1916
Brusilov Offensive
4th June - 20th September 1916
Nicholas II becomes Commander-in-Chief
22nd August 1915
Kerensky becomes Prime Minister
8th July 1917
Kornilov Affair
19th - 30th August 1917
July Days
3rd - 6th July 1917
Bloody Sunday
9th July 1905
Treaty of Portsmouth
5th September 1905
Socialist Revolutionaries Formally Established
1901
Kornilov appointed Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces
18 July 1917
Bolsheviks achieve majority in Moscow Soviet
2nd September 1917
Bolsheviks gain majority in Petrograd Soviet
13th September 1917
Kornilov appointed supreme commander of the Armed Forces
18th July 1917
Serf emancipation
1861
Communist Manifesto is published
1848
Severe famine
1891 - 1892
Construction of the trans-siberian railway begins.
1891
Witte initiates rapid industrialisation - ‘Great Spurt’
1893 - 1893
Coronation of Tsar Nicholas and Tsarina Alexandra, Khodynka Field Tragedy
1896
Social Democratic Workers Party Founded
1898
Social Democrats split into Bolshevik and Menshevik factions
1903
Japanese attack on Port Arthur, China sparks Russo-Japanese War
8th February 1904
Port Arthur surrenders to Japanese
20th December 1904
Dismissal of 4 workers from Putilov Steelworks in St Petersburg
December 1904
Kadets ormed
12th - 18th October 1905
October Manifesto
17th October 1905
Octobrists formed
October 1905
Moscow Soviet formed
21st November 1905
Fundamental Laws
23rd April 1906
First Duma Opens
27th April 1906
Stolypin as prime minister
June 1906
First Duma Dissolvde
8th July 1906
Second Duma Opens
20th February 1907
Second Duma Dissolved
3rd June 1907
Third Duma Opens
7th November 1907
Stolypin assassinated
1st September 1911
Fourth Duma Convened
15th November 1912
Germany declares war on Russia
1st August 1914
Battle of Tannenburg
26th - 31st August 1914
Masurian Lakes
15th September 1914