Timeline

Question 1

What happened in 1874?

Answer 1

Populist campaigns for “Go To The People”

Question 2

What happened in 1861?

Answer 2

Serf Emancipation

Question 3

What happened in 1855?

Answer 3

Alexander II becomes Tsar

Question 4

What happened in 1881?

Answer 4

Alexander II bombed

Question 5

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

Answer 5

Sergei Witte

Until 1903

Question 6

What took place across Russia between 1891-92?

Answer 6

Famine

Question 7

What was founded in 1898?

Answer 7

Social Democratic Working Party (SDs)

Question 8

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

Answer 8

Industrial unrest

Question 9

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

Answer 9

Social Democratic Workers’ Party

Bolsheviks and Mensheviks

Question 10

What War took place in 1904?

Answer 10

Russo-Japanese War

Question 11

What massacre happened in January 1905?

Answer 11

Bloody Sunday

Question 12

What Soviet is formed under the October Manifesto of 1905?

Answer 12

St Petersburg Soviet

Question 13

Who carries out agrarian reform from 1906-11?

Answer 13

Stolypin

Question 14

What massacre/strike took place in 1912?

Answer 14

Lena goldfields strike

Question 15

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

Answer 15

1st August

Question 16

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

Answer 16

The armed forces

Duma

Question 17

What happens due to unrest in February 1917?

Answer 17

Strikes in Petrograd

Question 18

What Soviet is formed on the 27th February 1917?

Answer 18

Petrograd Soviet

Question 19

What Government is formed in March 1917?

Answer 19

Provisional Government

Question 20

Which Tsar abdicated in March 1917?

Answer 20

Nicholas II

Question 21

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

Answer 21

Anti-government demonstrations

July Days and Kornilov Affair

Question 22

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

Answer 22

Bolsheviks

Question 23

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

Answer 23

Provisional Government

Bolshevik government

Question 24

What was established in December 1917?

Answer 24

Cheka

Question 25

What Assembly was forcibly dissolved in January 1918?

Answer 25

Constituent Assembly

Question 26

What War started in 1918?

Answer 26

Civil War

Question 27

What Policy was introduced in 1921?

Answer 27

NEP - New Economic Policy

Question 28

Which key figure died in 1924?

Answer 28

Lenin

Question 29

What Plan was activated in 1928?

Answer 29

First Five-Year Plan

Question 30

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

Answer 30

Mass collectivisation | Liquidation

Question 31

What took place between 1932-33?

Answer 31

Famine

Question 32

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

Answer 32

"Show trial" | Zinoviev and Kamenev

Question 33

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

Answer 33

Great Terror

Question 34

Who invades Russia in 1941? What city is seized?

Answer 34

Nazis | Leningrad

Question 35

What Battle takes place in 1942?

Answer 35

Battle of Stalingrad

Question 36

What War ends in 1945?

Answer 36

Second World War

Question 37

What Affair takes place in 1949?

Answer 37

Leningrad Affair

Question 38

What Plot took place in 1952?

Answer 38

Doctors' Plot

Question 39

Who dies in 1953?

Answer 39

Stalin

Question 40

What scheme begins under Khrushchev in 1954?

Answer 40

"Virgin Lands" scheme

Question 41

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

Answer 41

Khrushchev's "secret speech" | De-Stalinisation

Question 42

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

Answer 42

Pasternak

Question 43

What work did Solzhenitsyn published in 1962?

Answer 43

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Question 44

Who is removed from power in 1964?

Answer 44

Khrushchev