Unit 4: AOS 1: Causes of the Russian Revolution Timeline Flashcards
When did Marx and Engels publish the communist manifesto?
1848
When was the emancipation of the serfs?
1861
When did Tsar Nicholas come to power?
1894
When was the coronation of Tsar Nicholas and Tsarina Alexandra; Khodynak Field tradegy?
14 May 1896
When did the Social Democrats split into Bolshevik and Menshevik factions?
July-August 1903
When was the Japanese attack on Port Authur in China, sparking the Russo-Japanese War?
8 February 1904
When was the Russo-Japanese War?
8 February 1904 - 5 September 1905
When was the national congress of the Zemstovs?
6-9 November 1904
When did the dismissal of 4 workers from Putilov Steelworks in St Petersburg trigger the widespread Industrial Revolution?
December 1904
When were there major strikes in St Petersburg?
7-8 January 1905
When was the Bloody Sunday Massacre?
9 January 1905
When was the Russian defeat at Mukden?
February 1905
When was the Union of Unions formed?
8 May 1905
When was the Russian defeat in the battle of Tsushima?
14 May 1905
When was the mutiny on the battleship Potemkin?
8 June 1905
When was the Treaty of Portsmouth ending the Russo-Japanese War?
5 September 1905
When was St Petersburg paralysed by general strike?
14 October 1905
When was the October Manifesto released?
17 October 1905
When was the Moscow Soviet workers’ uprising?
7-18 December 1905
When was the Moscow uprising suppressed by force?
8 December 1905
When did factions lead to splits in the socialist Revolutionary Party?
1906
When did Sergi Witte resign as Prime Minister?
April 1906
When were the fundamental Laws passed?
23 April 1906
When did the First Duma?
27 April - 9 July 1906
When was Stolypin appointed Prime Minister?
June 1906
When did the Second Duma open?
20 February 1907
When did the Second Duma dissolve and new electoral laws passed?
3 June 1907
When was the Third Duma
7 November 1907 - June 1912
When were the striking workers at Lena minefield massacred by tsarist forces?
4 November 1912
When was the Fourth Duma?
15 November 1912 - August 1914
When was the battle of Tannenburg?
28-31 August 1914
When was the Russian Army defeated at Masurian Lakes?
15 September 1914
When did Tsar Nicholas take charge of the armed forces?
22 August 1915
When did the Tsar dismiss the 4th Duma?
2 September 1915
When was the Brusilov offensive?
4 June - 20 September 1916
When was Rasputin murdered?
16 December 1916
When were 150,000 demonstraters in memory of Bloody Sunday?
9 January 1917
When was Putilov Steelworks strike?
18 January 1917
When were the International Women’s Day marches?
23 February 1917
When did the Duma defy Tsar’s order to disband?
26 February 1917
When was the Petrograd garrison mutiny; the Petrograd Soviet formed; The Provisional Committee assumes authority?
27 February 1917
When was the Soviet Order No 1?
1 March 1917
When did the Tsar Abdicate the throne? When was the Provisional Government formed?
2 March 1917
When did Tsereteli returns to Russia and develops Revolutionary Defencism?
20 March 1917
when did the provisional government release its declaration of war aims?
27 March 1917
When did Lenin returns to Russia and presents his April These?
3 - 4 April 1917
When did Miliukov puts forward his note?
18 April 1917
When did riots in Petrograd against Provisional Government’s handling of war
20 April 1917
When did Trotsky returns to Russia?
4 May 1917
when was the first coalition government?
5 May 1917
When was Kerensky’s June Offensive?
18 June - 2 July 1917
When were the July Days?
3 - 6 July 1917
When did Kerensky become Prime Minister?
8 July 1917
When was Kornilov appointed Supreme Commander of the armed forces?
18 July 1917
When was the Second Coalition Government?
25 July 1917
When was Moscow state conference?
12 - 15 August 1917
When was the Kornilov Affair?
19 - 30 August 1917
When did the Bolsheviks achieve majority in the Moscow Soviet?
2 September 1917
When did the Bolsheviks gain majority in the Petrograd Soviet?
13 September 1917
When was the democratic state conference?
14-19 September 1917
When was the third coalition government; Trotsky becomes chairman of Petrograd Soviet; Lenin revives slogan ‘all power to the soviets’?
25 September 1917
When does Parliament open?
7 October 1917
When did the Bolsheviks central committee meets to discuss whether to seize power from the Provisional Government?
10 October 1917
When was the first full meeting of Military Revolutionary Committee (Milrevcom)?
16 October 1917
When did Kerensky order arrest of leading Bolsheviks, closure of Bolsheviks newspapers and raising the bridges of central Petrograd?
23 - 24 October 1917
When did Trotsky’s Milrevcom troops and Red Guards begin to re-take city from Kerensky’s forces?
24 October 1917
When did a Bolshevik-led insurrection seizes power in the ‘storming’ of the Winter Palace Second All-Russian Congress of Soviets
25 - 26 October 1917
