key dates

Question 1

Crimean war

Answer 1

1853-56

Question 2

Alexander II becomes tsar

Answer 2

1855

Question 3

emancipation edict announced

Answer 3

1861

Question 4

polish revolt/start of emancipation

Answer 4

1863-64

Question 5

zemsvo law and legal reforms/school boards

Answer 5

1864

Question 6

easing of censorship under Alexander II

Answer 6

1863

Question 7

first assassination attempt of Alexander II

Answer 7

1866

Question 8

Russo-Turkish war

Answer 8

1877-78

Question 9

growth of opposition - narodniks, land and liberty, people’s will

Answer 9

1874-81

Question 10

loris malenkov proposal. Alexander II assassinated, Alexander III and the reaction

Answer 10

1881

Question 11

factory inspectorate established

Answer 11

1882

Question 12

peasant land bank

Answer 12

1883

Question 13

land captains

Answer 13

1889

Question 14

famine in seventeen provinces of russia

Answer 14

1898

Question 15

imposition of the medele’ev tariff

Answer 15

1891

Question 16

witte’s great spurt

Answer 16

1892-3

Question 17

rouble placed on gold standard/first census

Answer 17

1897

Question 18

Nicholas II becomes tsar

Answer 18

1894

Question 19

formation of the SDs

Answer 19

1894

Question 20

formation of the SRs

Answer 20

1901

Question 21

SDs split into bolsheviks and mensheviks

Answer 21

1903

Question 22

Russo-Japanese war

Answer 22

1904-5

Question 23

bloody sunday and october revolution

Answer 23

1905

Question 24

fundamental laws, start of stolypin’s reforms and the first duma

Answer 24

1906

Question 25

world war I

Answer 25

1914-18 (russia left in 1917)

Question 26

feburary revolution and provisional government decree on land. start of civil war. war communism

Answer 26

1917

Question 27

constituent assembly/constitution formed

Answer 27

1918

Question 28

kronstadt rising/famine - 8m dead/economic collapese/NEP and gosplan

Answer 28

1921

Question 29

declaration of the 46

Answer 29

1923

Question 30

lenin dead/constitution

Answer 30

1924

Question 31

1920s famine

Answer 31

1927-8

Question 32

first 5 year plan

Answer 32

1928-9

Question 33

mass collectivisation and dekulakisation

Answer 33

1929-41

Question 34

1930s famine - 5m dead

Answer 34

1932-4

Question 35

the great terror

Answer 35

1938-40

Question 36

stalin's constitution

Answer 36

1936

Question 37

the winter war

Answer 37

1939-40

Question 38

world war II - stalingrad/kursk/leningrad

Answer 38

1943

Question 39

yalta and potsdam

Answer 39

1945

Question 40

cold war starts/long telegram/iron curtain speech

Answer 40

1946-7

Question 41

tightening of censorship. famine in ukraine

Answer 41

1946

Question 42

leningrad purged. formation of comecon

Answer 42

1949

Question 43

formation of east and west germany and china becomes communist

Answer 43

1949

Question 44

korean war

Answer 44

1950-3

Question 45

doctor's plot

Answer 45

1953

Question 46

creation of the warsaw plact

Answer 46

1955

Question 47

hungarian uprising

Answer 47

1956

Question 48

khrushchev's rise to power. virgin land scheme

Answer 48

1953-4

Question 49

denunciation of stalin in secret speech

Answer 49

1956

Question 50

khrushchev's maise growing campaign

Answer 50

1953

Question 51

worker's riot in novercherkassk

Answer 51

1962

Question 52

cuban missile crisis

Answer 52

1962

Question 53

agricultural crisis - soil erosion - virgin land scheme

Answer 53

1953

Question 54

khrushchev falls from power - brezhnev takes power

Answer 54

1965