Key dates Flashcards

1
Q

Alexander II becomes Tsar

A

1855

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2
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Crimean war ends

A

1856

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3
Q

Abolition of serfdom

A

1861

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4
Q

Polish revolt

A

1863-64

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5
Q

Alexander II assassinated; Alexander III succeeds

A

1881

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6
Q

May Laws

A

1882

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7
Q

Peasant land banks created

A

1883

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8
Q

Land captains established

A

1889

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9
Q

Famine under Alexander III

A

1891-92

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10
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Death of Alexander III; Nicholas II succeeds

A

1894

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11
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Social democratic workers party founded

A

1898

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12
Q

Social revolutionary party established

A

1899

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13
Q

Russo-Japanese war begins

A

1904

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14
Q

What 3 events happen in 1905

A

July- Bloody Sunday massacre
August- Russo-Japanese war ends
October- October manifesto

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15
Q

Germany declares war on Russia

A

1914

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16
Q

Tsar assumes command of the army

A

1915

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17
Q

Murder of Rasputin

A

1916

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18
Q

6 events that happen in 1917

A

Feb- feb revolution
April- April theses
July- July days
Aug- Kornilov attempts coup
Oct- October revolution
Nov- armistice ends WW1

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19
Q

3 events in 1918

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Constituent assembly dissolved
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Civil war begins

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20
Q

Civil war ends

A

1921

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21
Q

Great famine

A

1921-22

22
Q

Lenin dies

A

1924

23
Q

First five year plan

A

1928-32

24
Q

Call for collectivisation and dekulakisation

A

1929

25
Q

Famine in Ukraine

A

1932-33

26
Q

Second five year plan

A

1933-37

27
Q

Stalins purges

A

1936-38

28
Q

Height of Great terror

A

1937-38

29
Q

Third five year plan

A

1938-42

30
Q

Nazi invasion of USSR

A

1941

31
Q

End of WW2

A

1945

32
Q

Fourth five year plan

A

1946-50

33
Q

Fifth five year plan

A

1951-55

34
Q

Death of Stalin + Khrushchev becomes First secretary of party

A

1953

35
Q

Virgin land schemes adopted

A

1954

36
Q

Khrushchev’s secret speech

A

1956

37
Q

‘Anti-Party’ group defeated + economic decentralisation adopted

A

1957

38
Q

Seven year plan adopted

A

1959

39
Q

Removal of Khrushchev

A

1964

40
Q

Witte’s ‘Great spurt’

A

1892-93

41
Q

Creation of the Duma

A

1905

42
Q

War Communism

A

1918-21

43
Q

New Economic Policy (NEP)

A

1921-27

44
Q

Cuban Missile crisis

A

1962

45
Q

First World War

A

1914-1918

46
Q

Second World War

A

1939-1945

47
Q

Cold War

A

1947-1991

48
Q

Russo-Turkish War

A

1877-78

49
Q

1st Duma

A

April-July 1906

50
Q

2nd Duma

A

February-June 1907

51
Q

3rd Duma

A

November 1907-1912

52
Q

4th Duma

A

November 1912-February 1917