Key Dates

Question 1

Witte’s economic reforms

Answer 1

August 1894

Question 2

Accession of Nicholas II

Answer 2

November 1894

Question 3

Formation of Social Democrats

Answer 3

March 1898

Question 4

Formation of Socialist Revolutionaries

Answer 4

March 1900

Question 5

SD splits into Bolsheviks and Mensheviks

Answer 5

November 1903

Question 6

Russo-Japanese War

Answer 6

February 1904 - September 1905

Question 7

Bloody Sunday

Answer 7

January 1905

Question 8

First Revolution

Answer 8

January - October 1905

Question 9

October Manifesto

Answer 9

October 1905

Question 10

Fundamental Laws issues

Answer 10

April 1906

Question 11

First Duma

Answer 11

April - July 1906

Question 12

Second Duma

Answer 12

February - June 1907

Question 13

Third Duma

Answer 13

November 1907 - June 1912

Question 14

Fourth Duma

Answer 14

November 1912 - February 1917

Question 15

Lena Goldfields massacre

Answer 15

April 1912

Question 16

Strike at Putilov Steel Works

Answer 16

18th February 1917

Question 17

Marchers for international women’s day joined the Putilov protest

Answer 17

23rd February 1917

Question 18

General strike where the workers were fired on by troops

Answer 18

25th February 1917

Question 19

Petrograd Soviet and Provisional Duma Committee formed

Answer 19

27th February 1917

Question 20

Soviet Order No. 1 passed

Answer 20

1st March 1917

Question 21

Nicholas abdicated and Provisional Government formed

Answer 21

2nd March 1917

Question 22

Lenin issues April Thesis

Answer 22

4th April 1917

Question 23

Kerensky becomes war minister

Answer 23

May 1917

Question 24

July Days

Answer 24

3rd - 6th July 1917

Question 25

Bolsheviks had control of the Petrograd Soviet and Moscow Soviet

Answer 25

8th September

Question 26

Lenin returns from exile

Answer 26

7th October 1917

Question 27

Kerensky shuts down some newspapers

Answer 27

23rd October 1917

Question 28

Military Revolutionary Committee tried to seize power

Answer 28

24th October 1917

Question 29

PG members arrested (Kerensky flees)

Answer 29

26th October 1917

Question 30

All Russian Congress of Soviets informed Bolsheviks had power

Answer 30

27th October 1917

Question 31

Decree on Land and Workers' Control

Answer 31

November 1917

Question 32

Peace talks at Brest-Litovsk

Answer 32

December 1917

Question 33

Dissolution of the Constituent Assembly and formation of the Red Army

Answer 33

January 1918

Question 34

Signing of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

Answer 34

3rd March 1918

Question 35

Russian Civil War

Answer 35

Summer 1918

Question 36

War Communism begins

Answer 36

June 1918

Question 37

Decree on Nationalisation

Answer 37

June 1918

Question 38

Grain requisitioning and start of famine

Answer 38

July 1918

Question 39

Tsar Nicholas and family murdered

Answer 39

July 1918

Question 40

Red Terror

Answer 40

September 1918

Question 41

Comintern set up

Answer 41

March 1919

Question 42

Polish armed forces pushed back Red Army

Answer 42

April 1920

Question 43

Kronstadt rising

Answer 43

March 1921

Question 44

Introduction of the New Economic Policy (NEP)

Answer 44

April 1921

Question 45

Lenin's death

Answer 45

January 1924

Question 46

Beginning of Collectivisation

Answer 46

1928

Question 47

First Five-Year Plan

Answer 47

October 1928 - December 1932

Question 48

Second Five-Year Plan

Answer 48

January 1933 - December 1937

Question 49

Purges (under Yezhov)

Answer 49

1933

Question 50

Assassination of Kirov

Answer 50

December 1933

Question 51

The Great Purge (including Party, Army and People)

Answer 51

1936

Question 52

Third Five-Year Plan

Answer 52

January 1938 - June 1941