Timeline Flashcards
1
Q
When was Russia defeated in the Crimean war?
A
1856
2
Q
When was the State Bank established?
A
1860
3
Q
When was Serfdom abolished?
A
March 1861
4
Q
When was ‘Young Russia’ published and what did it call for?
A
1862
- Argued reform was essential + revolution was necessary for change
5
Q
When did Universities become self-governing bodies?
A
1863
6
Q
When was the January Uprising?
A
1863
7
Q
When was the Zemstva created?
A
1864
8
Q
When were the Military and Judicial reforms?
A
1864
9
Q
When were the Censorship reforms?
A
1865
10
Q
When was the first assassination attempt on AII?
A
April 1866
11
Q
When did the nobles, misters etc believe reform had gone too far and encouraged AII to replace liberal ministers when conservative ones?
A
1866
12
Q
When was trial by jury removed for political crimes?
A
1869
13
Q
When was there substantial government investment in railway construction?
A
1870-73
14
Q
When was oil pumped from the sea port of Baku?
A
1871
15
Q
When were Universities banned from including any subject which involved critical thinking?
A
1871
16
Q
When was military service expanded to all classes?
A
1874
17
Q
When was the Populist ‘Go the People Campaign’?
A
1874:
- Encouraged peasants to rise up against the regime
18
Q
When was the trial of the 193?
A
1877
19
Q
When was the group ‘Land and Liberty’ set up?
A
1877
20
Q
When was the Russo-Turkish war?
A
1877-1878
21
Q
When did ‘Land and Liberty’ spilt into ‘The Black Partition’ and ‘The People’s Will’
A
1879
22
Q
When did the Peoples Will declare the Tsar had to be removed?
A
1879
23
Q
When was there a poor harvest + famine?
A
1879-80
24
Q
When was AII assassinated by the Peoples Will?
A
1881
25
When did AIII order the execution of those responsible for his fathers death?
1881
26
When did Russification begin?
1881
27
When was the Okhrana given martial powers?
1882
28
When were 'closed' court sessions reintroduced?
1885
29
When were women and children banned from working at night?
1885
30
When was there increased military spending?
1885
31
When were Land Banks created?
1885
32
When did Ivan Vyshengradsky become minister of finance?
1886
33
When did Russia acquire a loan from France to improve finances and gold reserves?
1888
34
When were Land Captains set up?
1889
35
When were peasant's votes in elections reduced?
1890
36
When did work being on the Trans-Siberian Railway?
1891
37
When was there a big famine?
1891-92
38
When did the M/C become dissatisfied with AIII and wanted a voice in government?
1891
39
When did Russia continue to export grain leading to Vyshengradsky's dismissal?
1891
40
When were children under 12 and women not allowed to work in mines?
1892
41
When did Witte become Minister of Finance?
1892
42
When did AIII die from kidney failure?
1894
43
When was Lenin exiled to Siberia?
1895
44
When did the General Union of Jewish Workers form?
1897
45
When did Witte introduce a new rouble backed by the Gold Standard?
1897
46
When did the Russia Social Democratic Worker's party form?
1898
47
When was Lenin realised from exile and travelled to Switzerland?
1900
48
When was the average working day 11 hours?
1900
49
When was there a poor harvest causing rural violence?
1901
50
When was there a world wide depression?
1901
51
When did the Socialist Revolutionary Party form?
1901
52
When was the Commission on Agriculture established by Stolypin?
1902
53
When was most of the Trans-Siberian Railway completed?
1902
54
When did Rasputin arrive in Russia?
1903
55
When did the Social Democrats split?
1903
56
When did Father Gapon from the Assembly of Russian Workers Union?
1903
57
When was the Russo-Japanese war?
1904-05
58
When did Port Arthur fall to the Japanese?
1904
59
When was Bloody Sunday?
1905
60
When was Duke Alexandrovic assassinated (NII uncle)
1905
61
When were there big general strikes in Moscow?
October 1905
62
When were the October and November Manifestos?
1905
63
When were the Fundamental Laws introduced?
1906
64
When was Witte dismissed?
1906
65
When were military courts created?
1906
66
When were peasants given the right to leave the Mir?
1906
67
When did the first Duma begin and end?
May-July 1906
68
When did the second Duma begin and end?
February-June 1907
69
When did the third Duma begin?
June 1907
| - dominated by nobles
70
When was Stolypin assassinated?
1911
71
When was a workers health insurance system introduced?
1912
72
When did the fourth Duma begin?
1912
73
When was the celebration of the 300th anniversary of the Romanov Dynasty?
1913
74
When were the Octoberists ordered into investigation by Rasputin?
1913
75
When was Franz Ferdinand assassinated?
June 1914
76
When did NII decide to support Serbia?
July 1914
77
When did Germany declare war on Russia?
August 1914
78
When was the progressive bloc formed?
1915
79
When did NII take personal charge of the army?
September 1915
80
When was Rasputin assassinated?
1916
81
When did a large number of Russia soldiers desert?
1916
82
When did workers take to the streets of Petrograd?
January 1917
83
When was the Annual Women's Day march?
23rd February 1917
84
When was the fourth Duma ordered to disband but it refused?
26th February 1917
85
When was NII forced to abdicate?
2nd March 1917
86
When did the PG form, led by Price Lvov?
March
87
When were Soviets established?
March
88
When were Land Committees set up?
April
89
When did peasants begin to seize land?
April
90
When did Lenin return to Russia?
3rd April
91
When was Lenin's April Thesis published?
7th April
92
When did Trotsky return to Russia?
May
93
When did the PG decide to remain in the war?
May
94
When were factory owners still allowed to decide working hours and conditions?
May
95
When did 175,000 workers go on strike?
June
96
When was the June Offensive?
June
97
When did Trotsky join the Bolsheviks?
July
98
When were the July Days?
3rd-7th July
99
When did Prince Lvov resign?
4th July
100
When were the Bolsheviks arrested?
5th July
101
When did Kerensky become Prime Minister?
18th July
102
When was Kornilov's attempted coup?
26th-30th August
103
When were the Bolsheviks released?
August
104
When did Trotsky become leader of the Petrograd Soviet?
September
105
When was Kornilov arrested?
September
106
When did Lenin return to Petrograd?
October
107
When was the Bolshevik revolution?
24th October
108
When was the Land Decree and the Decree on Peace?
1917
109
When were reforms made to private ownership, marriage and divorce and the legal status of women?
December 1917
110
When was the Cheka formed?
1917
111
When were the Vesenka and Sovnarkom founded?
1917
112
When did elections begin for the Constitute Assembly?
November 1917
113
When did the Bolsheviks close down the CA?
January 1918
114
When was the Church and State separated?
February 1918
115
When was the Red army formed?
1918
116
When was the Treaty of Brest-Litvosk?
March 1918
117
When did War Communism begin?
June 28th 1918
118
When were the Romanovs killed?
July 1918
119
When was there an assassination attempt on Lenin?
August 1918
120
When were there peasant revolts against War Communism?
January 1918
121
When did the Mensheviks gain legal status?
January 1919
122
When did the Cheka close down the Menshevik paper after anti-Bolshevik material was published?
February 1919
123
When did most of the fighting in the Civil War end?
November 1920
124
When did the Kronstadt soldiers list demands for the Bolsheviks?
Feb 1921
125
When were the NEP and the ban on factions announced?
March 1921
126
When did nations supporting the Whites lift trading blockades?
1921
127
When was the Cheka replaced by the OGPU?
1922
128
When was Stalin appointed General Secretary?
1922
129
When did Lenin proclaim the USSR?
December 1922
130
When was Lenin's testament?
1922
131
When did Lenin and Stalin's relationship breakdown?
January 1923
132
When was Lenin's third stroke?
March 1923
133
When was the Scissors Crisis?
October 1923
134
When was the platform of 46 letter?
October 1923
135
When did Lenin die?
January 1924
136
When was the USSR recognised by the UK?
February 1924
137
When did Stalin Publicly attack Trotsky for being unfaithful to 'Leninism'?
1924
138
When did Stalin announce 'Socialism in One Country'?
1924
139
When did Stalin ally with Bukharin and attack Zinoviev?
1925
140
When did Stalin attack the 'united opposition' of Zinoviev, Kamenev, and Trotsky?
1926
141
When were Zinoviev, Kamenev, and Trotsky expelled from the party?
1927
142
When did the first 5 year plans begin?
1928
143
When did Collectivisation begin?
1928
144
When was Bukharin removed from the Politburo?
1929
145
When was 'liquidation of the Kulaks announced'?
1929
146
When did Stalin achieve 'supreme power'?
1929
147
When was the famine?
1930-32
148
When was Kirov murdered leading to the Great Terror?
1934
149
When were Zinoviev, Kamenev, and others arrested and accused for the death of Kirov?
1935
150
When was the first show trial (Zinoviev and Kamenev)?
1936
151
When did the Great Terror end?
1939
152
When was the Nazi-Soviet Pact?
August 1939
153
When did WWII start?
September 1939
154
When was Trotsky assassinated?
1940
155
When did Hitler invade the USSR?
1941
156
When did Stalin meet with Roosevelt and Churchill?
1943
157
When was the battle of Stalingrad?
1943
158
When did WWII end?
1945
159
When did the Soviets seize power in Czechoslovakia?
1948
160
When was the blockade of East Berlin?
1948
161
When did the USSR explode their first A-bomb?
1949
162
When did Stain die?
1953
163
When was the announcement of the Jewish 'Doctors Plot' causing plans for a new wave of terror?
1953
164
When did Khrushchev become First Party Secretary?
1953
165
When was Beria arrested and then executed?
June + December 1953
166
When did the Virgin Lands Scheme begin?
1954
167
When did Malenkov resign as Chairman of the Council of Ministers?
1955
168
When was the Secret Speech + DeSalinisation?
1956
169
When did experiments begin with the MTS?
1957
170
When was there decentralisation of light industry?
1957
171
When was Sovanarhozy set up?
1957
172
When did Molotov and others try to dismiss Khrushchev with a vote of 8-4?
June 1957
173
When did Khrushchev assume the role of Chairman of Soviet Ministers and party leader = forcing Bulganin to resign?
1958
174
When did Khrushchev meet Kennedy at Vienna?
1961
175
When were the shootings of striking workers at Novocherkassk ordered?
1962
176
When was Khrushchev deposed by Leonid Brezhnev?
1964
