Key dates Flashcards

1
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Emancipation Edict

A

1861

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2
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Crimean war

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1853-56

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3
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Censorship reforms

A

1860s

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4
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Education reforms

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1864

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5
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Military reform

A

1874 (1861-81)

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6
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Assassination attempt on Alexander II

A

1866

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7
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The ‘reaction’

A

1866-81

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8
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Nicholas I death

A

1555

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9
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Alexander II death

A

1881

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10
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Alexander III death

A

1894

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11
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NIcholas II death

A

1917

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12
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Treaty of Paris

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1856

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13
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Local government reform

A

1864

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14
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Judicial reform

A

1864-5

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15
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Polish revolt

A

1863

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16
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Trial of Vera Zasulich

A

1878

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17
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Trial of 50

A

1877

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18
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Manifesto of unshakeable autocracy published

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1881

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19
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Law on Exceptional Measures

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1881

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19
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Statute on police surveillance

A

1882

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19
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Land captains appointed

A

July 1889

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20
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Peasant zemstvo vote reduced

A

1890

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21
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redemption payments reduced

A

1881

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22
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Polish intellectuals allowed to form Agricultural society

A

1857

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23
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Pogroms

A

1881-4

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24
Q

Mass disturbances due to russification

A

June 1888

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25
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‘Great’ Volga famine

A

1891-2

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26
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1st noble land bank

A

1885

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27
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Decembrist uprising

A

1825

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28
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Land owners first allowed to sell land

A

1803

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29
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Orlov committee set up to discuss emancipation

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1857

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30
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50% of peasantry produce a surplus

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1878

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31
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1000 peasant disturbances due to emancipation

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1861

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32
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Public budget set

A

1862

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33
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Universities given more autonomy

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1863

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34
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Zemstvo established

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1864

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35
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Second assassination attempt on Alexander II

A

1867

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36
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Zemstvo system set up for towns

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1870

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37
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Bunge finance ministers

A

1881-7

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38
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Vyshnegradsky finance minister

A

1889-92

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39
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Witte finance minister

A

1892-1904

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40
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Stolypin prime minister

A

1906-11

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41
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All appointments to uni have to be approved

A

1884

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42
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von Reutern finance minister

A

1862-78

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43
Q

Oil extraction begins in Caspian sea

A

1871

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44
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Naphtha extraction company established

A

1879

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45
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John Hughes asked to organise coal mine in the Donbass

A

1868

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46
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Hughes and welsh miners build iron mine

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1870

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47
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Factory act to improve working conditions

A

1882

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48
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import tariffs raised

A

1878

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49
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Redemption payments lowered

A

1886

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50
Q

Poll tax abolished

A

1886

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51
Q

Vyshnegradsky takes loans from France

A

1888

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52
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Russian Budget surplus

A

1892

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53
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Laws to restrict working hours for women, and to prevent child labour

A

1882-90

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54
Q

Education restricted for jews

A

1887

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55
Q

Jews have to live in the pale of settlement

A

Jews cant vote in local elections

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56
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Jews must adopt christian names

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1893

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57
Q

Tchaikovsky circle meet in st peters

A

1868-9

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58
Q

Das Kapital published

A

1867

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59
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Emancipation of Labour founded by Plekhanov

A

1883

60
Q

Emancipation of Labour joins SDs

A

1903

61
Q

Land and LIberty formed

A

1876

62
Q

Land and Liberty splits into Black partition and the people’s will

A

1879

63
Q

Chernyshevsky published what is to be done

A

1863

64
Q

Bakunin and NEchaev publish Catechism of a revolution

A

1869

65
Q

Working day reduced to 11.5 hours

A

1894

66
Q

Unions introduced in Moscow by Zubatov

A

1901

67
Q

Textiles workers in St Petersburg strike

A

1896 and 7

68
Q

Strikes peak with nearly 100000 workers

A

1899

69
Q

International recession causes economic depression

A

1900-8

70
Q

Zubatov dismissed after general strikes

A

1903

71
Q

Russo-japanese war

A

1905

72
Q

Union of liberation push for a constitutional monarchy

A

1904

73
Q

Gapon forms the assembly of russian workers

A

April 1904

74
Q

Father Gapon leads procession to winter palace, fired upon

A

Jan 1905

75
Q

1905 revolution

A

1905 Jan- Oct

76
Q

October manifesto

A

october 1905

77
Q

opposition splits into octobrists and kadets

A

1905

78
Q

troops sent in to stop peasant violence in the countryside

A

1906

79
Q

Nicholas issues fundamental laws

A

pril 1906

80
Q

SD founded

A

1898

81
Q

SD splits into bolsheviks and mensheviks

A

1903

82
Q

1st Duma

A

April-July 1906

83
Q

2nd Duma

A

Feb-June 1907

84
Q

3rd Duma

A

1907-12

85
Q

4th Duma

A

1912-1917

86
Q

Railway doubled (decade)

A

1890s

87
Q

Trans siberian railways

A

1906

88
Q

Witte adapts gold standard

A

1894

89
Q

Stolypin appointed minister of the interior

A

1906

90
Q

Stolypin assassinated

A

1911

91
Q

Stolypin orders court marshalling of peasants

A

1906

92
Q

Particularly good harvest

A

1913

93
Q

Russia becomes world’s largest grain exporter

A

1909

94
Q

More state and crown land available to buy

A

1906

95
Q

Land made personal property

A

1906

96
Q

Peasants could withdraw from the Mir and consolidate their land into larger farms

A

1906

97
Q

All communes which hadn’t redistributed land since 1961 abolished

A

1910

98
Q

2nd Peasants Land bank

A

1906

99
Q

Equal rights for peasants

A

1906

100
Q

Redemption payments officially abolished

A

1907

101
Q

Mir abolished

A

1910

102
Q

SD formed

A

1898

103
Q

SR formed

A

1899

104
Q

Nicholas rejects request for national zemstvo

A

1895

105
Q

Struve forms Union of Liberation

A

1903

106
Q

Liberals split into Kadets and OCtobrists

A

1905

107
Q

SD splits into bolsheviks and mensheviks

A

1903

108
Q

Stolypin assassinated

A

1911

109
Q

Cultural ‘silver age’

A

1894-1914

110
Q

Declaration of WW1

A

July 1914

111
Q

Battle of Tannenberg

A

August 1914

112
Q

Battle of Masurian lakes

A

September 1914

113
Q

Russia matches german production of shells

A

1916

114
Q

Brusilov campaign

A

June 1916

115
Q

Nicholas makes himself supreme leader of the army

A

March 1917

116
Q

1 million Russians killed and 1 million Russians captured

A

May- December 1915

117
Q

Civilian authority replaced with military command on the home front

A

July 1914

118
Q

Zemgor formed

A

June 1915

119
Q

Progressive Bloc formed

A

August 1915

120
Q

Duma closed

A

September 1915

121
Q

Rasputin assassinated

A

30th December 1916

122
Q

1.5 million soldiers desert the army

A

1916

123
Q

30,000 strike in Moscow, 145000 strike in Petrograd

A

Jan 2 1917

124
Q

128000-240000 women and coal miners march through Petrograd

A

Feb 23 1917

125
Q

Half of Petrograd on strike

A

Feb 25 1917

126
Q

Petrograd garrison mutinies and joins protesters

A

Feb 27 1917

127
Q

Tsar’s train stopped en route to petrograd

A

Feb 28 1917

128
Q

Tsar abdicates

A

March 2 1917

129
Q

Inflation almost hits 400%

A

1916

130
Q

Progressive Bloc established

A

1915

131
Q

Duma establishes temporary governing body

A

Feb 27 1917

132
Q

Brusilov campaign

A

June 1916

133
Q

Military command introduced

A

July 1914

134
Q

Zemstvo and town dumas form to join the Zemgor

A

June 1915

135
Q

Congress of representatives of industry and business established to organise war production

A

1914

136
Q

July days

A

3-7 July 1917

137
Q

Failed Kerensky offensive

A

June 1917

138
Q

Kornilov affair

A

10th-13th September 1917

139
Q

Lenin returns to Petrograd after July days

A

7th October 1917

140
Q

Kerensky sends radical troops away from Petrograd, and MRC established

A

9th October 1917

141
Q

15/ 18 armed units in Petrograd support Bolsheviks

A

23rd October 1917

142
Q

Bolsheviks capture Petrograd, Kerensky flees and the power is transferred to the soviets

A

24-25th October 1917

143
Q

Second congress of soviets ‘approves’ the October revolution

A

26th October

144
Q

Decree on Peace

A

27th October 1917

145
Q

Decree on Land

A

27th October 1917

146
Q

Degree on worker’s control

A

November 1917

147
Q

Degree on the rights of the people of Russia

A

November 1917

148
Q

Cheka established

A

9th December 1917

149
Q

Constituent assembly elections

A

November 1917

150
Q

Constituent assembly closed and protestors fired on

A

5th January 1918