Timeline Flashcards
When was Russia defeated in the Crimean war?
1856
When was the State Bank established?
1860
When was Serfdom abolished?
March 1861
When was ‘Young Russia’ published and what did it call for?
1862
- Argued reform was essential + revolution was necessary for change
When did Universities become self-governing bodies?
1863
When was the January Uprising?
1863
When was the Zemstva created?
1864
When were the Military and Judicial reforms?
1864
When were the Censorship reforms?
1865
When was the first assassination attempt on AII?
April 1866
When did the nobles, misters etc believe reform had gone too far and encouraged AII to replace liberal ministers when conservative ones?
1866
When was trial by jury removed for political crimes?
1869
When was there substantial government investment in railway construction?
1870-73
When was oil pumped from the sea port of Baku?
1871
When were Universities banned from including any subject which involved critical thinking?
1871
When was military service expanded to all classes?
1874
When was the Populist ‘Go the People Campaign’?
1874:
- Encouraged peasants to rise up against the regime
When was the trial of the 193?
1877
When was the group ‘Land and Liberty’ set up?
1877
When was the Russo-Turkish war?
1877-1878
When did ‘Land and Liberty’ spilt into ‘The Black Partition’ and ‘The People’s Will’
1879
When did the Peoples Will declare the Tsar had to be removed?
1879
When was there a poor harvest + famine?
1879-80
When was AII assassinated by the Peoples Will?
1881
When did AIII order the execution of those responsible for his fathers death?
1881
When did Russification begin?
1881
When was the Okhrana given martial powers?
1882
When were ‘closed’ court sessions reintroduced?
1885
When were women and children banned from working at night?
1885
When was there increased military spending?
1885
When were Land Banks created?
1885
When did Ivan Vyshengradsky become minister of finance?
1886
When did Russia acquire a loan from France to improve finances and gold reserves?
1888
When were Land Captains set up?
1889
When were peasant’s votes in elections reduced?
1890
When did work being on the Trans-Siberian Railway?
1891
When was there a big famine?
1891-92
When did the M/C become dissatisfied with AIII and wanted a voice in government?
1891
When did Russia continue to export grain leading to Vyshengradsky’s dismissal?
1891
When were children under 12 and women not allowed to work in mines?
1892
When did Witte become Minister of Finance?
1892
When did AIII die from kidney failure?
1894
When was Lenin exiled to Siberia?
1895
When did the General Union of Jewish Workers form?
1897
When did Witte introduce a new rouble backed by the Gold Standard?
1897
When did the Russia Social Democratic Worker’s party form?
1898
When was Lenin realised from exile and travelled to Switzerland?
1900
When was the average working day 11 hours?
1900
When was there a poor harvest causing rural violence?
1901
When was there a world wide depression?
1901
When did the Socialist Revolutionary Party form?
1901
When was the Commission on Agriculture established by Stolypin?
1902
When was most of the Trans-Siberian Railway completed?
1902
When did Rasputin arrive in Russia?
1903
When did the Social Democrats split?
1903
When did Father Gapon from the Assembly of Russian Workers Union?
1903
When was the Russo-Japanese war?
1904-05
When did Port Arthur fall to the Japanese?
1904
When was Bloody Sunday?
1905
When was Duke Alexandrovic assassinated (NII uncle)
1905
When were there big general strikes in Moscow?
October 1905
When were the October and November Manifestos?
1905
When were the Fundamental Laws introduced?
1906
When was Witte dismissed?
1906
When were military courts created?
1906
When were peasants given the right to leave the Mir?
1906
When did the first Duma begin and end?
May-July 1906
When did the second Duma begin and end?
February-June 1907
When did the third Duma begin?
June 1907
- dominated by nobles
When was Stolypin assassinated?
1911
When was a workers health insurance system introduced?
1912
When did the fourth Duma begin?
1912
When was the celebration of the 300th anniversary of the Romanov Dynasty?
1913
When were the Octoberists ordered into investigation by Rasputin?
1913
When was Franz Ferdinand assassinated?
June 1914
When did NII decide to support Serbia?
July 1914
When did Germany declare war on Russia?
August 1914
When was the progressive bloc formed?
1915
When did NII take personal charge of the army?
September 1915
When was Rasputin assassinated?
1916
When did a large number of Russia soldiers desert?
1916
When did workers take to the streets of Petrograd?
January 1917
When was the Annual Women’s Day march?
23rd February 1917
When was the fourth Duma ordered to disband but it refused?
26th February 1917
When was NII forced to abdicate?
2nd March 1917
When did the PG form, led by Price Lvov?
March
When were Soviets established?
March
When were Land Committees set up?
April
When did peasants begin to seize land?
April
When did Lenin return to Russia?
3rd April
When was Lenin’s April Thesis published?
7th April
When did Trotsky return to Russia?
May
When did the PG decide to remain in the war?
May
When were factory owners still allowed to decide working hours and conditions?
May
When did 175,000 workers go on strike?
June
When was the June Offensive?
June
When did Trotsky join the Bolsheviks?
July
When were the July Days?
3rd-7th July
When did Prince Lvov resign?
4th July
When were the Bolsheviks arrested?
5th July
When did Kerensky become Prime Minister?
18th July
When was Kornilov’s attempted coup?
26th-30th August
When were the Bolsheviks released?
August
When did Trotsky become leader of the Petrograd Soviet?
September
When was Kornilov arrested?
September
When did Lenin return to Petrograd?
October
When was the Bolshevik revolution?
24th October
When was the Land Decree and the Decree on Peace?
1917
When were reforms made to private ownership, marriage and divorce and the legal status of women?
December 1917
When was the Cheka formed?
1917
When were the Vesenka and Sovnarkom founded?
1917
When did elections begin for the Constitute Assembly?
November 1917
When did the Bolsheviks close down the CA?
January 1918
When was the Church and State separated?
February 1918
When was the Red army formed?
1918
When was the Treaty of Brest-Litvosk?
March 1918
When did War Communism begin?
June 28th 1918
When were the Romanovs killed?
July 1918
When was there an assassination attempt on Lenin?
August 1918
When were there peasant revolts against War Communism?
January 1918
When did the Mensheviks gain legal status?
January 1919
When did the Cheka close down the Menshevik paper after anti-Bolshevik material was published?
February 1919
When did most of the fighting in the Civil War end?
November 1920
When did the Kronstadt soldiers list demands for the Bolsheviks?
Feb 1921
When were the NEP and the ban on factions announced?
March 1921
When did nations supporting the Whites lift trading blockades?
1921
When was the Cheka replaced by the OGPU?
1922
When was Stalin appointed General Secretary?
1922
When did Lenin proclaim the USSR?
December 1922
When was Lenin’s testament?
1922
When did Lenin and Stalin’s relationship breakdown?
January 1923
When was Lenin’s third stroke?
March 1923
When was the Scissors Crisis?
October 1923
When was the platform of 46 letter?
October 1923
When did Lenin die?
January 1924
When was the USSR recognised by the UK?
February 1924
When did Stalin Publicly attack Trotsky for being unfaithful to ‘Leninism’?
1924
When did Stalin announce ‘Socialism in One Country’?
1924
When did Stalin ally with Bukharin and attack Zinoviev?
1925
When did Stalin attack the ‘united opposition’ of Zinoviev, Kamenev, and Trotsky?
1926
When were Zinoviev, Kamenev, and Trotsky expelled from the party?
1927
When did the first 5 year plans begin?
1928
When did Collectivisation begin?
1928
When was Bukharin removed from the Politburo?
1929
When was ‘liquidation of the Kulaks announced’?
1929
When did Stalin achieve ‘supreme power’?
1929
When was the famine?
1930-32
When was Kirov murdered leading to the Great Terror?
1934
When were Zinoviev, Kamenev, and others arrested and accused for the death of Kirov?
1935
When was the first show trial (Zinoviev and Kamenev)?
1936
When did the Great Terror end?
1939
When was the Nazi-Soviet Pact?
August 1939
When did WWII start?
September 1939
When was Trotsky assassinated?
1940
When did Hitler invade the USSR?
1941
When did Stalin meet with Roosevelt and Churchill?
1943
When was the battle of Stalingrad?
1943
When did WWII end?
1945
When did the Soviets seize power in Czechoslovakia?
1948
When was the blockade of East Berlin?
1948
When did the USSR explode their first A-bomb?
1949
When did Stain die?
1953
When was the announcement of the Jewish ‘Doctors Plot’ causing plans for a new wave of terror?
1953
When did Khrushchev become First Party Secretary?
1953
When was Beria arrested and then executed?
June + December 1953
When did the Virgin Lands Scheme begin?
1954
When did Malenkov resign as Chairman of the Council of Ministers?
1955
When was the Secret Speech + DeSalinisation?
1956
When did experiments begin with the MTS?
1957
When was there decentralisation of light industry?
1957
When was Sovanarhozy set up?
1957
When did Molotov and others try to dismiss Khrushchev with a vote of 8-4?
June 1957
When did Khrushchev assume the role of Chairman of Soviet Ministers and party leader = forcing Bulganin to resign?
1958
When did Khrushchev meet Kennedy at Vienna?
1961
When were the shootings of striking workers at Novocherkassk ordered?
1962
When was Khrushchev deposed by Leonid Brezhnev?
1964
