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Tsarist And Communist Russia - 1855-1964 > Timeline > Flashcards

Timeline Flashcards

1
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What happened in 1874?

A

Populist campaigns for “Go To The People”

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2
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What happened in 1861?

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Serf Emancipation

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3
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What happened in 1855?

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Alexander II becomes Tsar

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4
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What happened in 1881?

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Alexander II bombed

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5
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Who became Minister of Finance in 1892? How long were they in this position for?

A

Sergei Witte

Until 1903

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6
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What took place across Russia between 1891-92?

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Famine

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7
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What was founded in 1898?

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Social Democratic Working Party (SDs)

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8
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What type of unrest existed in Russia from 1901-05?

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Industrial unrest

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9
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What Party split into two groups in 1903? What 2 groups did they become?

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Social Democratic Workers’ Party

Bolsheviks and Mensheviks

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10
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What War took place in 1904?

A

Russo-Japanese War

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11
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What massacre happened in January 1905?

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Bloody Sunday

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12
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What Soviet is formed under the October Manifesto of 1905?

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St Petersburg Soviet

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13
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Who carries out agrarian reform from 1906-11?

A

Stolypin

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14
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What massacre/strike took place in 1912?

A

Lena goldfields strike

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15
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What date does Germany declare War on Russia on in 1914?

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1st August

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16
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What does the Tsar assume command of in September 1916? What does he suspend?

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The armed forces

Duma

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17
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What happens due to unrest in February 1917?

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Strikes in Petrograd

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18
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What Soviet is formed on the 27th February 1917?

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Petrograd Soviet

19
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What Government is formed in March 1917?

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Provisional Government

20
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Which Tsar abdicated in March 1917?

A

Nicholas II

21
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What demonstrations take place in July 1917? What are 2 key examples of this?

A

Anti-government demonstrations

July Days and Kornilov Affair

22
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Who seizes key Petrograd landmarks between 24th-25th October 1917?

A

Bolsheviks

23
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What government members are arrested between the 25th-27th October 1917? What type of government is announced?

A

Provisional Government

Bolshevik government

24
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What was established in December 1917?

A

Cheka

25
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What Assembly was forcibly dissolved in January 1918?

A

Constituent Assembly

26
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What War started in 1918?

A

Civil War

27
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What Policy was introduced in 1921?

A

NEP - New Economic Policy

28
Q

Which key figure died in 1924?

A

Lenin

29
Q

What Plan was activated in 1928?

A

First Five-Year Plan

30
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What mass process started in 1929? What was called for with the Kulaks?

A

Mass collectivisation

Liquidation

31
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What took place between 1932-33?

A

Famine

32
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What famous trial took place in 1936? What 2 key figures were killed?

A

“Show trial”

Zinoviev and Kamenev

33
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What act of Stalin’s was at its height during 1937-38?

A

Great Terror

34
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Who invades Russia in 1941? What city is seized?

A

Nazis

Leningrad

35
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What Battle takes place in 1942?

A

Battle of Stalingrad

36
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What War ends in 1945?

A

Second World War

37
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What Affair takes place in 1949?

A

Leningrad Affair

38
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What Plot took place in 1952?

A

Doctors’ Plot

39
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Who dies in 1953?

A

Stalin

40
Q

What scheme begins under Khrushchev in 1954?

A

“Virgin Lands” scheme

41
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What speech takes place in 1956? What process begins following this?

A

Khrushchev’s “secret speech”

De-Stalinisation

42
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Who is awarded the Nobel Prize for their work Dr Zhivago in 1958?

A

Pasternak

43
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What work did Solzhenitsyn published in 1962?

A

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

44
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Who is removed from power in 1964?

A

Khrushchev

Tsarist And Communist Russia - 1855-1964 (39 decks)

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