Timeline Flashcards
When were Russia defeated in the Crimean war?
1856
When was the emancipation act?
1861
When were Zemstvos created what what were they?
1864:
Local forms of government
What were Zemstvos replaced by and when?
1917:
- Worker’s councils
When was censorship relaxed under AII and what was allowed?
1865:
- Press allowed to discuss gov. policy
- Editors given more freedom
When was the first assassination attempt on AII?
1866
When did opposition begin to grow under AII and what groups were they?
1874:
- Narodniks, L+L, Peoples Will
When was AII assassinated?
1881
When were land banks created and what did they provide?
1883:
- Gave peasants credit to buy land
When was the failed assassination attempt on AIII by Lenin’s brother?
1887
When were land captains introduced?
1889
When was there a famine under AIII in 17/39 Russian provinces?
1891
When was Witte’s great spurt?
1892-1903
When was the accession of NII?
1894
When did the SDs form?
1898
When did the SRs form?
1901
When did the SDs split?
1903
When was the Russo-Japanese war?
1904-05
When was Bloody Sunday and the OM?
1905
When were Dumas formed?
1906
When were Stolypin’s reforms?
1906-11
When did the 4 Dumas meet?
1906-14
When was WWI?
1914-18
When were the February and October revolutions?
1917
When was the Constituent assembly?
1918
When was the Treaty of Brest-Litivosk?
1918
When was the Civil War?
1918-20
When was War Communism?
1918-21
When was the Kronstadt uprising?
1921
When was there a famine under Lenin?
1921 - 5 m dead
When was NEP?
1921-27
When did Lenin die?
1924
When was the power struggle?
1922-29
When did Stalin gain power?
1928
When were collectivisation and the first FYP introduced?
1928-29
When was there a famine under Stalin?
1930-32 - 5 m dead
When was the Great Terror?
1934-40
When was WWII?
1941-45
When was censorship tightened under Stalin?
1946
When did Stalin die?
1953
When was Khrushchev’s rise to power?
1954-56
When was the Virgin Lands Scheme?
1954
When was the secret speech?
1956
When did decentralisation begin?
1957
When were the 7 year plans introduced?
1959
When was Khrushchev removed?
1964
