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18th February 1917

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Strike at Putilov steel works

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The Fundamental Laws

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January 1906

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Bloody Sunday

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22nd January 1905

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1905 Revolution

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January 1905

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The Emancipation of the Serfs

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1861

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Austria-Hungary take over Bosnia

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1908

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Reign of Alexander II

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1855-1881

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Reign of Alexander III

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1881-1894

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Reign of Nicholas II

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1894-1917

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October Manifesto

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Witte- 17th October 1905

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First Duma

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May- July 1906

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The Second Duma

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March- June 1907

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Third Duma

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1907-1912

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14
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The Fourth Duma

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1912- 1914

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By December 1914…

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1.2 Casualties

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23rd February 1917

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  • International Women’s Day march joined by Putilov strikers

- Demanding food and end to war

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25th February 1917

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  • General strikes spread throughout Petrograd
  • Police couldn’t stop strikers
  • Signs of police sympathy
  • 200,000 demonstrators
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26th February 1917

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-Rodzianko telegram to Nicholas II
- Duma ordered to dissolve_ did dissol but then set up a ‘provisional committee’.
_A leading member of the Duma, Alexander Kerensky called for the tsar to

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27th February 1917

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  • Rodzianko telegram to Nicholas II

- Tsar responds to telegram by sending telegram to the tsarina

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27th February 1917

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-Demostrations had turned into a Revolution
-Around 150,000 troops deserted to support the cause
-Armed crowds broke into prisons, barracks, government arsenal’s and burned down police stations
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21
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9th January

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Strike to commemorate Bloody Sunday

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31st January 1917

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Strikes across Russia

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14th February 1917

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  • 100,000 workers strike in Petrograd

- State Duma reconvened

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25th February 1917

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  • Cossack troops fight police to protect protestors

- Over 200,000 strikers in Petrograd

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27th February 1917
The Petrograd garrison mutinies
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2nd March 1917
The Tsar abdicates
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Autocracy
The absolute rule of one person.
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Requisitioning
State authorised takeover of property or resources.
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Union of Zemstvos
A set of patriotic rural local councils.
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Union of Municipal Councils
A set of patriotic urban local councils.
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Zemgor
The joint body that devoted itself to helping Russia's war bounded.
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The Great Retreat
1915 - Due to Russian defeat at the Battle of Tannenberg.
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The Brusilov Offensive
1916- failed
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Comander-in-chief
August 1915
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March 1st
The leaders of France and Britain formally recognise the Provisional Government as the official government of Russia.
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March 3rd
Nicholas' brother refused the throne. | Ends over 300 years of the Romanov rule.
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March 3rd PG
The Provisional Government issues a set of liberal principles by which it intends to govern. Includes improvements to civil rights and freedoms, amnesties for political prisoners and the organisation of elections for a Constituent Assembly.
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March 9th
Nicholas II and his family are detained under house arrest.
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March 12th
The Provisional Government issues a decree abolishing the death penalty.
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April 3rd
Lenin returns to Russia with the assistance of the German government. On arrival he delivers a speech at Finland Station, which forms the basis of the April Theses.
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June 18th
On Kerensky's orders, Russian forces began a massive military offensive against the Austro- Hungarians in Galicia. The offensive fails leading to 400,000 Russian casualties.
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July 4th
The 'July Days' uprising in Petrograd. Workers and soldiers spontaneously revolt, demanding the Soviets or the Bolsheviks take power. Both refuse and the rebellion is crushed by government tro
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July 12th
Under pressure from generals, the Provisional Government reintroduces the death penalty for deserting or mutinying soldiers at the front.
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August 25th
The Kornilov affair
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August 30th
The Provisional Government released the Bolsheviks from jail and gave them wea
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September 25th
Bolsheviks hold a voting majority in the Petrograd Soviet; Trotsky elected as chairman.
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October 10th
October Revolution begins. | The Petrograd Soviet creates the Military Revolutionary Committee.
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October 25th
The Bolsheviks storm the Winter palace to find that most of the PG had already fled. Trotsky announced that the revolution had been successful and the Bolsheviks had taken control.
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October 26th
18hrs after taking power, Lenin issues the Decree on Land, calling for the abolition of private ownership, and the Decree on Peace, urging an immediate ceasefire and treaty.
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November 10th
The new Bolshevik government abolishes all tsarist rank, titles and privileges.
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November 19th
A Bolshevik delegation begins peace negotiations with German officers at Brest-Litovsk.

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