key dates unit 1

Question 1

Creation of the municipal council (Dumas)

Answer 1

1870

Question 2

Nicholas II came to power

Answer 2

1994

Question 3

Coronation of Tsar Nicholas II; Khodynka Tragedy

Answer 3

1896

Question 4

Social Democratic Workers’ Party founded

Answer 4

1998

Question 5

SDs split producing internal factionalism: Bolsheviks and Mensheviks

Answer 5

1903

Question 6

russo-japanese war

Answer 6

1904-05

Question 7

Bloody Sunday

Answer 7

jan 1905

Question 8

October manifesto

Answer 8

October 1905

Question 9

russia joins the First World War

Answer 9

July 1914

Question 10

battle of tannenburg

Answer 10

august 1914

Question 11

battle of masurian lakes

Answer 11

September 1914

Question 12

Brusilov offensive (massive success)

Answer 12

June 1916

Question 13

Rasputin assassinated

Answer 13

December 1916

Question 14

February revolution - general strike called with 250,000 protestors paralysing capital, 66,000 garrison troops mutiny in support

Answer 14

feburary 1917

Question 15

tsar Nicholas II abdicates

Answer 15

march 1917

Question 16

order no. 1

Answer 16

march 1917

Question 17

Lenin returns

Answer 17

3rd April 1917

Question 19

April thesis presented

Answer 19

17th April 1917

Question 20

first All-Russian congress soviet meets

Answer 20

3rd June 1917

Question 21

Trotsky Joins the bolsheviks

Answer 21

2nd June 1917

Question 22

the July days of anti government demonstrations in Petrograd

Answer 22

3-5th July 1917

Question 23

Bolshevik leaders are arrested (including Trotsky); Lenin flees to Finland

Answer 23

3-7th July 1917

Question 24

Kerensky (socialist) becomes prime minster

Answer 24

18th July 1917

Question 25

Kornilov affair fails and the bolshevik red guard are given arms

Answer 25

26-30 august 1917

Question 26

Trotsky becomes chairman of the Petrograd Soviet; the Bolsheviks command majorities in both the Petrograd and Moscow Soviets

Answer 26

september 1917

Question 27

Lenin returns and attends a meeting of the Bolshevik Central Committee and his call for a Bolshevik-led revolution is agreed

Answer 27

10th october 1917

Question 28

Military Revolutionary Committee (MRC) set up under Trotsky and Dzerzhinsky

Answer 28

16th October 1917

Question 29

Trotsky addressed army representitives at Bolshevik head quarters and persuaded them to support the soviet ageinst the force of counter revolution

Answer 29

21 October 1917

Question 30

Zinoviev & kamenev published article explaining why a coup should not happen

Answer 30

22nd October 1917

Question 31

Armed workers and soldiers, led by the Bolsheviks and organised by MRC, take over key buildings and communication centres in Petrograd

Answer 31

24-25th October 1917

Question 32

remaining members of PG are arrested by the Bolsheviks and Sovnarkom is created, with Lenin as Chairman

Answer 32

25-27th October 1917

Question 33

the Cheka is established

Answer 33

December 1917