key facts and figures 1917-24 Flashcards
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1
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What proportion of the population were peasants pre revolution?
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80%
2
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State Duma formed
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1906
3
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When was the Battle of Tannenberg
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August 1914
4
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Battle of Tannenberg casualties
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~300,000 killed/wounded, 1000s taken prisoner
5
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All Russian Union of Zemstva and Cities set up
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June 1915
6
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Nicholas head of Russia’s armed forces
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‘Commander in Chief’
Sept 1915
7
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Rasputin assassinated
A
Dec 1916
8
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Progressive Block formed
A
August 1915
9
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Romanov dynasty in power
A
1613-1917
10
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Bloody Sunday
A
Jan 1905
11
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Lack of supplies in Russian army (WW1)
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1914: infantry only 2 rifles per 3 soldiers
1915: artillery limited to 2-3 shells per day
12
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How many soldiers deserted 1916?
A
1.5 million
13
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Brusilov Offensive
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Sept 1916
14
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Russian shell manufacturing
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More than Germany 1916
15
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Railway locomotive production WW1
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Halved 1913-16
16
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Change in cost of living WW1
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300% rise
17
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Petrograd Soviet members 10th March 1917
A
3000
18
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Order No.1
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1st March
19
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Nicholas abdicated
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2nd March
20
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Bolshevik Party membership Feb/March 1917
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23,000 (relatively small)
21
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Bolsheviks in PS Feb/March 1917
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40
22
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The July Days
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16-20 July 1917
23
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Kornilov coup
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August 1917
24
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Bolshevik Party membership October 1917
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100,000
25
Lenin returns to Russia (2nd time)
October 1917
26
MRC established
16th October 1917
27
People under MRC control
- 200,000 Red Guards
- 60,000 Baltic sailors
- 150,000 soldiers of the remaining
Petrograd garrison units
28
Grain prices in Petrograd 1917
Doubled Feb - June
29
Factories 1917
586 closed, 100,000 jobs lost
30
How many of the Petrograd garrisons declared allegiance to the MRC not the PG?
15/18
31
How many people did the October revolution involve?
25-30,000 people at most (~5% of workers and soldiers in Petrograd)
32
Bolshevik newspapers closed down
Pravda and Izvestia, 23rd October
33
How many soldiers and Kronstadt sailors moved into the city on the 24th?
5000
34
All Russian Central Executive Committee members and make up
101
62 Bolsheviks, 29 left-wing SRs
35
Outcome of elections to the Constituent Assembly
SRs - 53% (410 seats)
Bolsheviks - 24% (175 seats)
Mensheviks, Kadets and others - 23% (97 seats)
36
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk signed
3 March 1918
37
Losses because of Treaty of Brest Litovsk
62 mill people (1/6 of pop)
2 million square km of land (1/3 of agricultural prod)
1/4 railway lines
3/4 coal and iron supplies
3 billion roubles
38
First Soviet Constitution proclaimed
July 1918
39
Members of the former 'exploiting classes' banned from voting or holding office
July 1918
40
All other political parties banned
1921
41
Bolsheviks renamed 'Communist Party'
March 1918
42
Workers put in charge of railways
January 1918
43
Russian Civil War
1918-21
44
Treaty of Riga
March 1921
45
How many former tsarist officers were recruited to train new troops?
50,000
46
Romanovs assassinated
17 July 1918
47
How many Party members fought for the Red Army?
500,000
48
Politburo set up
1919
49
USSR established
1922
50
How many people died in the Civil War?
~10 million
51
Miles covered by Trotsky's train
65,000+
52
Banks nationalised
December 1917
53
War communism
June 1918 - March 1921
54
Factories and railways nationalised
September 1918
55
Start of compulsory grain requisitioning
January 1919
56
Tambov Revolt
Aug 1920 - June 1921
57
Industrial production December 1920
20% of 1913 levels
58
NEP
March 1921 - 1928
59
Kronstadt Rising
March 1921
60
Veshenka set up
1917
61
GOELRO formed
1920
62
Change in Russia's urban proletariat during the civil war
3.6 million Jan 1917
1.4 million Jan 1919
(dropped by over 50%)
63
Petrograd bread ration 1918
50g per person per day
64
How many people died due to starvation and disease in the civil war?
~5 million
65
Food Supplies Dictatorship set up
May 1918
66
Nearly all factories and businesses nationalised
November 1920
67
Harvest of 1921
48% of 1913's harvest
68
Russia's population 1913-21
170.9-130.9 million
69
Industrial output
20% of 1913
70
Change in populations of Petrograd and Moscow as a result of war communism
1917-20
Petrograd: -57.5%
Moscow: -44.5%
71
Trigger for launch of Red Terror
Assassination attempt on Lenin Aug 1918
72
How many Mensheviks, SRs, anarchists etc were executed during the Red Terror?
~500,000
73
How many people rose up against the govt in Aug 1920 (Tambov)
70,000
74
How many Red Army soldiers were needed to crush the Tambov Revolt?
100,000
75
How many Kronstadt sailors rebelled?
30,000
76
How many Kronstadt sailors were imprisoned
15,000
77
Gosplan established
Feb 1921
78
Scissors crisis
1923
79
Ban on factions introduced
1921
80
Cheka renamed
GPU 1922
81
Nomenklatura system introduced
1923
82
Proportion of food in cities that came from the black market (war comm)
Up to 2/3
83
Number of deaths in action in the civil war
350,000
84
Typhus epidemic year and deaths
1920, >3 million
85
Uprisings in Feb 1921
155
86
Nepmen in Moscow 1925
25,000
87
Proportion of trade that nepmen were responsible for by 1923
75%
88
Percentage of Petrograd workforce that had left by April 1918
60%
89
How many times did Kiev change hands (civil war)
16
90
First entire industry nationalised
May 1918, sugar
91
Second entire industry nationalised
June 1918, oil
92
Production levels 1926
Same as 1913
93
SRs executed after a show trial
11
94
End of WW1
Nov 1918
95
Paris Peace Conference
March 1919 (Russia excluded)
96
Battle of Warsaw
Aug 1920
97
Bolshevik state recognised by Britain
Nov 1920 (via trade treaty)
98
Treaty of Riga
March 1921
99
Treaty of Rapallo
April 1922
100
First Comintern Congress
March 1919
101
Second Comintern Congress
July-Aug 1920
102
Third Comintern Congress
June-July 1921
103
Zinoviev letter
October 1924
104
Bullitt peace mission
March 1919
105
Allied govts call off their blockade
Jan 1920
106
White armies evacuated by British warships
March 1920
107
First conflicts between Russian and Polish forces
Feb 1919
108
Treaty of Versailles
1919
109
League of Nations set up
1920
110
Food crisis
1921
111
Reduction in bread ration 1921
Moscow Petrograd etc
-1/3
112
Martial law declared
January 1921 (Kronstadt rising)
