Timeline Flashcards
What happened in 1874?
Populist campaigns for “Go To The People”
What happened in 1861?
Serf Emancipation
What happened in 1855?
Alexander II becomes Tsar
What happened in 1881?
Alexander II bombed
Who became Minister of Finance in 1892? How long were they in this position for?
Sergei Witte
Until 1903
What took place across Russia between 1891-92?
Famine
What was founded in 1898?
Social Democratic Working Party (SDs)
What type of unrest existed in Russia from 1901-05?
Industrial unrest
What Party split into two groups in 1903? What 2 groups did they become?
Social Democratic Workers’ Party
Bolsheviks and Mensheviks
What War took place in 1904?
Russo-Japanese War
What massacre happened in January 1905?
Bloody Sunday
What Soviet is formed under the October Manifesto of 1905?
St Petersburg Soviet
Who carries out agrarian reform from 1906-11?
Stolypin
What massacre/strike took place in 1912?
Lena goldfields strike
What date does Germany declare War on Russia on in 1914?
1st August
What does the Tsar assume command of in September 1916? What does he suspend?
The armed forces
Duma
What happens due to unrest in February 1917?
Strikes in Petrograd
What Soviet is formed on the 27th February 1917?
Petrograd Soviet
What Government is formed in March 1917?
Provisional Government
Which Tsar abdicated in March 1917?
Nicholas II
What demonstrations take place in July 1917? What are 2 key examples of this?
Anti-government demonstrations
July Days and Kornilov Affair
Who seizes key Petrograd landmarks between 24th-25th October 1917?
Bolsheviks
What government members are arrested between the 25th-27th October 1917? What type of government is announced?
Provisional Government
Bolshevik government
What was established in December 1917?
Cheka
What Assembly was forcibly dissolved in January 1918?
Constituent Assembly
What War started in 1918?
Civil War
What Policy was introduced in 1921?
NEP - New Economic Policy
Which key figure died in 1924?
Lenin
What Plan was activated in 1928?
First Five-Year Plan
What mass process started in 1929? What was called for with the Kulaks?
Mass collectivisation
Liquidation
What took place between 1932-33?
Famine
What famous trial took place in 1936? What 2 key figures were killed?
“Show trial”
Zinoviev and Kamenev
What act of Stalin’s was at its height during 1937-38?
Great Terror
Who invades Russia in 1941? What city is seized?
Nazis
Leningrad
What Battle takes place in 1942?
Battle of Stalingrad
What War ends in 1945?
Second World War
What Affair takes place in 1949?
Leningrad Affair
What Plot took place in 1952?
Doctors’ Plot
Who dies in 1953?
Stalin
What scheme begins under Khrushchev in 1954?
“Virgin Lands” scheme
What speech takes place in 1956? What process begins following this?
Khrushchev’s “secret speech”
De-Stalinisation
Who is awarded the Nobel Prize for their work Dr Zhivago in 1958?
Pasternak
What work did Solzhenitsyn published in 1962?
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Who is removed from power in 1964?
Khrushchev
