Timeline

Question 1

Political
Alexander II become Tsar

Answer 1

1855

Question 2

International event
Crimean War ends

Answer 2

1856

Question 3

Social Event
Abolition of serfdom

Answer 3

1861

Question 4

Political
Polish Revolt

Answer 4

1863-64

Question 5

Political
Attempted assassination of Alexander II

Answer 5

1866

Question 6

Political
Alexander II assassinated; Alexander III succeeds

Answer 6

1881

Question 7

Social
May Laws

Answer 7

1882

Question 8

Ecomomic
Peasants’ Land Bank created

Answer 8

1883

Question 9

Ecomomic
Nobles’ Land Bank created

Answer 9

1885

Question 10

Political
Land Captains established

Answer 10

1889

Question 11

Ecomomic
Famine of 1890’s

Answer 11

1891-1892

Question 12

Political
Death of Alexander III: Nicholas II succeeds

Answer 12

1894

Question 13

Political
Social Democratic Workers’ party founded

Answer 13

1898

Question 14

Political
Social Revolutionary party established

Answer 14

1899

Question 15

International
Russo-Japanese war begins

Answer 15

1904

Question 16

Political
Bloody Sunday massacre

Answer 16

July 1905

Question 17

International
Russo-Japanese war concluded

Answer 17

Aug 1905

Question 18

Political
October manifesto

Answer 18

October 1905

Question 19

International
Germany declares war on Russia

Answer 19

1914

Question 20

Political
Tsar assumes command of army

Answer 20

1915

Question 21

Political
Tsar assumes command of army

Answer 21

1915

Question 22

Political
Murder of Rasputin

Answer 22

1916

Question 23

Political
February Revolution

Answer 23

February 1917

Question 24

Political
April Theses

Answer 24

April 1917

Question 25

Political July days

Answer 25

July 1917

Question 26

Political Kornilov attempted coup

Answer 26

August 1917

Question 27

Political October Revolution

Answer 27

October 1917

Question 28

International Armistice ends war

Answer 28

November 1917

Question 29

Political Constituent Assembly dissolved

Answer 29

1918

Question 30

International Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

Answer 30

1918

Question 31

Political Civil war begins

Answer 31

1918

Question 32

Political Ban on factions

Answer 32

1921

Question 33

International Treaty of Riga;Civil war ends

Answer 33

1921?

Question 34

Ecomomic Great famine

Answer 34

1921-22

Question 35

Political Constitution of USSR adopted

Answer 35

1922

Question 36

Political Lenin dies

Answer 36

1924

Question 37

Political United opposition formed

Answer 37

1926

Question 38

Ecomomic First five year plan

Answer 38

1928-1932

Question 39

Political Final defeat of opposition brings Stalin to power

Answer 39

1929

Question 40

Ecomomic Call for collectivisation and dekulakisation

Answer 40

1929

Question 41

Ecomomic Famine in Ukraine and elsewhere

Answer 41

1932-33

Question 42

Ecomomic Second five year plan

Answer 42

1933-1937

Question 43

Political Assassination of Kirov

Answer 43

1934

Question 44

Political New Soviet Constitution

Answer 44

1936

Question 45

Political Stalin’s purges

Answer 45

1936-1938

Question 46

Social Height of great terror

Answer 46

1937-38

Question 47

Economic Third five year plan

Answer 47

1938-42

Question 48

International Nazi invasion of USSR

Answer 48

1941

Question 49

International End of Second World War

Answer 49

1945

Question 50

Social Beginning of Zhdanovshchina

Answer 50

1946

Question 51

Economic Fourth five year plan

Answer 51

1946-50

Question 52

Economic Fifth five year plan

Answer 52

1951-55

Question 53

Political Death of Stalin

Answer 53

1953

Question 54

Political Krushchev becomes First Secretary of party

Answer 54

1953?

Question 55

Economic Virgin Lands scheme adopted

Answer 55

1954

Question 56

Political Krushchev’s ‘secret speech’

Answer 56

1956

Question 57

Economic Sixth five year plan

Answer 57

1956? Abandoned 1958

Question 58

Political ‘Anti party’ group defeated

Answer 58

1957

Question 59

Economic Economic decentralisation adopted

Answer 59

1957

Question 60

Economic Seven year plan adopted

Answer 60

1959

Question 61

Economic seventh five year plan

Answer 61

1961-65

Question 62

Political Removal of Krushchev

Answer 62

1964