Key dates Flashcards
1
Q
Emancipation Edict
A
1861
2
Q
Crimean war
A
1853-56
3
Q
Censorship reforms
A
1860s
4
Q
Education reforms
A
1864
5
Q
Military reform
A
1874 (1861-81)
6
Q
Assassination attempt on Alexander II
A
1866
7
Q
The ‘reaction’
A
1866-81
8
Q
Nicholas I death
A
1855
9
Q
Alexander II death
A
1881
10
Q
Alexander III death
A
1894
11
Q
NIcholas II death
A
1917
12
Q
Treaty of Paris
A
1856
13
Q
Local government reform
A
1864
14
Q
Judicial reform
A
1864-5
15
Q
Polish revolt
A
1863
16
Q
Trial of Vera Zasulich
A
1878
17
Q
Trial of 50
A
1877
18
Q
Manifesto of unshakeable autocracy published
A
1881
19
Q
Law on Exceptional Measures
A
1881
19
Q
Statute on police surveillance
A
1882
19
Q
Land captains appointed
A
July 1889
20
Q
Peasant zemstvo vote reduced
A
1890
21
Q
redemption payments reduced
A
1881
22
Q
Polish intellectuals allowed to form Agricultural society
A
1857
23
Pogroms
1881-4
24
Mass disturbances due to russification
June 1888
25
'Great' Volga famine
1891-2
26
1st noble land bank
1885
27
Decembrist uprising
1825
28
Land owners first allowed to sell land
1803
29
Orlov committee set up to discuss emancipation
1857
30
50% of peasantry produce a surplus
1878
31
1000 peasant disturbances due to emancipation
1861
32
Public budget set
1862
33
Universities given more autonomy
1863
34
Zemstvo established
1864
35
Second assassination attempt on Alexander II
1867
36
Zemstvo system set up for towns
1870
37
Bunge finance ministers
1881-7
38
Vyshnegradsky finance minister
1889-92
39
Witte finance minister
1892-1904
40
Stolypin prime minister
1906-11
41
All appointments to uni have to be approved
1884
42
von Reutern finance minister
1862-78
43
Oil extraction begins in Caspian sea
1871
44
Naphtha extraction company established
1879
45
John Hughes asked to organise coal mine in the Donbass
1868
46
Hughes and welsh miners build iron mine
1870
47
Factory act to improve working conditions
1882
48
import tariffs raised
1878
49
Redemption payments lowered
1886
50
Poll tax abolished
1886
51
Vyshnegradsky takes loans from France
1888
52
Russian Budget surplus
1892
53
Laws to restrict working hours for women, and to prevent child labour
1882-90
54
Education restricted for jews
1887
55
Jews have to live in the pale of settlement
Jews cant vote in local elections
56
Jews must adopt christian names
1893
57
Tchaikovsky circle meet in st peters
1868-9
58
Das Kapital published
1867
59
Emancipation of Labour founded by Plekhanov
1883
60
Emancipation of Labour joins SDs
1903
61
Land and LIberty formed
1876
62
Land and Liberty splits into Black partition and the people's will
1879
63
Chernyshevsky published what is to be done
1863
64
Bakunin and NEchaev publish Catechism of a revolution
1869
65
Working day reduced to 11.5 hours
1894
66
Unions introduced in Moscow by Zubatov
1901
67
Textiles workers in St Petersburg strike
1896 and 7
68
Strikes peak with nearly 100000 workers
1899
69
International recession causes economic depression
1900-8
70
Zubatov dismissed after general strikes
1903
71
Russo-japanese war
1905
72
Union of liberation push for a constitutional monarchy
1904
73
Gapon forms the assembly of russian workers
April 1904
74
Father Gapon leads procession to winter palace, fired upon
Jan 1905
75
1905 revolution
1905 Jan- Oct
76
October manifesto
october 1905
77
opposition splits into octobrists and kadets
1905
78
troops sent in to stop peasant violence in the countryside
1906
79
Nicholas issues fundamental laws
pril 1906
80
SD founded
1898
81
SD splits into bolsheviks and mensheviks
1903
82
1st Duma
April-July 1906
83
2nd Duma
Feb-June 1907
84
3rd Duma
1907-12
85
4th Duma
1912-1917
86
Railway doubled (decade)
1890s
87
Trans siberian railways
1906
88
Witte adapts gold standard
1894
89
Stolypin appointed minister of the interior
1906
90
Stolypin assassinated
1911
91
Stolypin orders court marshalling of peasants
1906
92
Particularly good harvest
1913
93
Russia becomes world's largest grain exporter
1909
94
More state and crown land available to buy
1906
95
Land made personal property
1906
96
Peasants could withdraw from the Mir and consolidate their land into larger farms
1906
97
All communes which hadn't redistributed land since 1861 abolished
1910
98
2nd Peasants Land bank
1906
99
Equal rights for peasants
1906
100
Redemption payments officially abolished
1907
101
Mir abolished
1910
102
SD formed
1898
103
SR formed
1899
104
Nicholas rejects request for national zemstvo
1895
105
Struve forms Union of Liberation
1903
106
Liberals split into Kadets and OCtobrists
1905
107
SD splits into bolsheviks and mensheviks
1903
108
Stolypin assassinated
1911
109
Cultural 'silver age'
1894-1914
110
Declaration of WW1
July 1914
111
Battle of Tannenberg
August 1914
112
Battle of Masurian lakes
September 1914
113
Russia matches german production of shells
1916
114
Brusilov campaign
June 1916
115
Nicholas makes himself supreme leader of the army
March 1915
116
1 million Russians killed and 1 million Russians captured
May- December 1915
117
Civilian authority replaced with military command on the home front
July 1914
118
Zemgor formed
June 1915
119
Progressive Bloc formed
August 1915
120
Duma closed
September 1915
121
Rasputin assassinated
30th December 1916
122
1.5 million soldiers desert the army
1916
123
30,000 strike in Moscow, 145000 strike in Petrograd
Jan 2 1917
124
128000-240000 women and coal miners march through Petrograd
Feb 23 1917
125
Half of Petrograd on strike
Feb 25 1917
126
Petrograd garrison mutinies and joins protesters
Feb 27 1917
127
Tsar's train stopped en route to petrograd
Feb 28 1917
128
Tsar abdicates
March 2 1917
129
Inflation almost hits 400%
1916
130
Progressive Bloc established
1915
131
Duma establishes temporary governing body
Feb 27 1917
132
Brusilov campaign
June 1916
133
Military command introduced
July 1914
134
Zemstvo and town dumas form to join the Zemgor
June 1915
135
Congress of representatives of industry and business established to organise war production
1914
136
July days
3-7 July 1917
137
Failed Kerensky offensive
June 1917
138
Kornilov affair
10th-13th September 1917
139
Lenin returns to Petrograd after July days
7th October 1917
140
Kerensky sends radical troops away from Petrograd, and MRC established
9th October 1917
141
15/ 18 armed units in Petrograd support Bolsheviks
23rd October 1917
142
Bolsheviks capture Petrograd, Kerensky flees and the power is transferred to the soviets
24-25th October 1917
143
Second congress of soviets 'approves' the October revolution
26th October
144
Decree on Peace
27th October 1917
145
Decree on Land
27th October 1917
146
Degree on worker's control
November 1917
147
Degree on the rights of the people of Russia
November 1917
148
Cheka established
9th December 1917
149
Constituent assembly elections
November 1917
150
Constituent assembly closed and protestors fired on
5th January 1918
