Dates Flashcards
1
Q
Accession if Alexander ii
A
1855
2
Q
Defeat in Crimean war
A
1856
3
Q
Emancipation
A
1861
4
Q
Committee of Ministers
A
1861
5
Q
Finnish Parliament
A
1863
6
Q
Polish revolt
A
1863
7
Q
1st Ukraine censorship decree
A
1863
8
Q
Zematvo
A
1864
9
Q
Legal reforms
A
1864
10
Q
Censorship regulations eased
A
1865
11
Q
Finnish constitution
A
1865
12
Q
First assassination attempt of Alexander ii
A
1866
13
Q
Local Urban Dumas
A
1870
14
Q
Growth of opposition
A
1874-81
15
Q
2nd Ukraine censorship decree
A
1876
16
Q
Russo-Turkish war
A
1877-78
17
Q
Treaty of San Stefano
A
3rd March1878
18
Q
Congress of Berlin
A
1878
19
Q
Okhrana established
A
1880
20
Q
Constitutional proposals
A
1881
21
Q
Assassination of Alexander ii
A
1881
22
Q
Peasant land banks
A
1882
23
Q
Failed assassination attempt of Alexander iii
A
1887
24
Q
Land captains
A
1889
25
Famine in 17 of Russia 39 provinces
1881
26
Wittes great spurt
1892
27
Accession of Nicholas ii
1894
28
Formation of social Democrats
1898
29
Formation of Socialist revolutionaries
1901
30
SDs split into Bolsheviks and Mensheviks
1903
31
Russo-Japanese war
1904-
32
Bloody Sunday
1905
33
Nicholas ii rev.
1905
34
Finland given full autonomy
1905
35
October manifesto
1905
36
First National duma
1906
37
Fundimental laws
April 1906
38
Stolypin reforms
1906-11
39
Four Dumas met
1906-14
40
Ww1
1914-18
41
February rev.
1917
42
Soviet order No. 1
1st March 1917
43
Lenins return
April 1917
44
Kerensky offensive
June 1917
45
Kornilov affair
26th August - 1st September 1917
46
Bolsheviks take control of Moscow and Petrograd Soviets
September 1917
47
Kerensky closed Pravda and Ivestiya
23rd October 1917
48
Bolsheviks seizure of power
24th-27th October 1917
49
October Revolution
1917
50
Cheka established
Decber 1917
51
Civil war and war communism
1917-21
52
Constitutent assembly
1918
53
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
3rd March 1918
54
Constitution created the RSFSR
1918
55
Russo-Polish war
1920
56
Kronstadt rising: famine and economic collapse
1921
57
How many died between 1918-1921
8 millik
58
NEP
1921-7
59
Pork Mutiny
1922
60
New Constitution creates the USSR
1924
61
Lenins death
1924
62
Struggle for power to replace Lenin
1922-9
63
Stalin in power
1927-53
64
First five year plan and collectivisation
1928-9
65
Holodomor
1932-3
66
Famine under Stalin
1932
| 5 million died
67
Formation of NKVD
1934
68
The Great Terror/Purges (reprised post ww2)
1934-40
69
Stalin constitution
1936
70
Winter war
| Who was it between?
1939-40
| Russia v Finland
71
Great Patriotic war
1941-5
72
NKGB replaces NKVD
1943
73
MGB and MVD form. Who did they replace?
1946
| NKGB
74
Censorship tightened under Stalin. Famine in Ukraine
1946
75
Leningrad purge
1949
76
Formation of Comecon
| What was it?
1949
| Economic organisation led by the Soviet Union that comprised the countries of the Eastern Bloc
77
Discovery of Doctors plot announced
1953
78
Beria executed
1953
79
Khrushchev rise to power
1954-6
80
Virgin Land
1954
81
KGB
1954
| MVD turned into the normal body
82
Khrushchev met with Tito (defrosting of relationship with Yugoslavia)
1955
83
Warsaw pact, what was it?
May 1955
| Soviet military defence treaty
84
First H bomb
1955
85
20th Party Congress and secret speech
Feb 19
86
Cominform ended
Sept. 1956
87
Polish Thaw
October 1956
88
Hungarian uprising
Oct. - Nov. 1956
89
Sovnarkoz reform
1957
| Organisations to manage seperate economic regions
90
Sputnik launch
1957
91
8 hour working day
1958
92
Khrushchev visits America
1959
93
Khrushchev maize growing campaign launched
1959
94
Shoe banging on table
1960
95
Berlin wall
1961
96
Workers riots in Novochercassk
1962
97
Cuban Missile Crisis
1962
98
Test treaty ban signed by US, UK, and Soviet
| Increased tensions with China
1963
99
Agricultural crisis generated by soil erosion in the Virgin Lands
1963
100
Fall of Khrushchev
1964
101
Yalta
February 1945
102
July 1945
Potsdam
103
Truman Doctrine
March 1947
104
Cominform
September 1947
| To counter the West's offer for help
105
Start of Berlin Blockade
June 1948
106
Nato
April 1949
107
May 1949
End of Berlin Blockade
108
Korean war began
June 1950
109
Hungarian revolution
October 1956
110
1956
Feb, - secret speech
Sept-cominform ended
Oct - Polish thaw
Oct -Nov. - Hungarian
111
First man in space
12th April 1961
112
Krishchev demands the West leave Berlin
June 1961
113
End of Korean war
July 1953
114
End of indio China war
1954
115
Support signing if the Austrian State treaty
May 1955
