Timeline Flashcards
Start of Nicholas II reign
1894
Sergei Wittes economic reforms
1894-1906
Jewish bund formed
1897
Social Democratic Party formed
1898
Formation of the social revolutionary party
1901
Social Democratic Party split into Bolsheviks and Mensheviks
1903
Russo- Japanese War
1904-5
Revolution
1905
All Russian union of peasants set up
1905
October manifesto created a duma
1905
Formation of the Kadet and octoberist parties
1905
Fundamental laws issued
23rd April 1906
First duma
1906
Stolypins years as chief minister
1906-11
Second duma
1907
Third duma
1907-12
Serious internal unrest
1911-14
Lena Goldfields episode
1912
Fourth duma
1912-14
Germany declared war on Russia
August 1st 1914
Assassination of Franz Ferdinand at Sarajevo
June 28 1914
Austria- Hungary declared war on Serbia
July 28 1914
Russian full mobilisation orders given
July 30 1914
Suspension of fourth duma
August 1 1914
Fourth duma reconvened
June/July 1915
The progressive bloc formed in the duma
June 25 1915
Nicholas II made himself commander in chief of the Russian armies
August 22 1915
Rasputin murdered
December 1 1916
Strike began at Putilov factories in Petrograd
February 18 1917
International women’s day
February 23 1917
Widespread workers demonstration
February 23 1917
General strike began
February 25 1917
Unofficial meeting of duma
February 27 1917
First meeting of the Petrograd soviet
February 27 1917
Nicholas II prevented from returning to Petrograd
February 28 1917
Provisional government formed from the duma committee
March 2 1917
Tsar signed abdication decree
March 2 1917
Tsar abdication publicly proclaimed
March 4 1917
Lenin returned to Petrograd
April 3 1917
Lenin issued his April Theses
April 4 1917
Failure of the Bolsheviks July Days uprising
July 3-6 1917
Kerensky became prime minister
July 8 1917
Kornilov abortive March on Petrograd
September 1 1917
Bolsheviks gained majority in Petrograd soviet
September 25 1917
Petrograd soviet set up military revolutionary committee
October 9 1917
Bolsheviks took control of Petrograd
October 24-25 1917
Kerensky fled from Petrograd
October 25-26 1917
Bolsheviks establishes Sorarkom with Lenin as chairman
October 26 1917
Lenin informed the Congress of Soviet’s that Bolsheviks had taken power in their name
October 27 1917
Decree on peace
October 1917
Decrees on land and workers control
November 1917
Russian civil war and foreign interventions
1918-20
War communism
1918-21
Bolsheviks forcibly dissolved the constitution assembly
January 1918
Red army established
January 1918
Treaty of Brest Litorsk
March 1918
Decree on nationalisation
June 1918
Forced grain requisition began
July 1918
Murder of Tsar and his family
July 1918
Red terror
September 1918
Comintern established
March 1919
Bolsheviks party renamed the communist party
March 1919
Invading Red army driven from Poland
April 1920
Kronstadt rising
March 1921
Introduction of the new economic policy
March 1921
Death of Lenin
January 1924
Politburo opted for collective leadership
January 1924
Trotsky lost his position as war commissar Kamenev and Zinoviev headed united opposition
1925
Trotsky joined Kamener and Zinoviev in bloc
1926
Stalin defeated the left
1926-27
Trotsky expelled from the communist party of the Soviet Union
1927
Stalin attacked the right
1928
The right finally defeated by Stalin
1928
Trotsky exiled from the ussr
1929
Widespread famine in the ussr
1932-3
Start of the second five year plan
1933
Stakhanovite movement
1935
Start of the third five year plan
1938
The great patriotic war
1941-5
When and where was Bloody Sunday
9th January 1905- St Petersburg
