Russia AOS1: Key Dates

Question 1

Key Dates

Nicholas II becomes Tsar of Russia

Answer 1

1894

Question 2

Key Dates

Sergei Witte Industrial Reforms:

• Built Trans-Siberian Railway
• Stabilised Russian Economy
• Created poor working conditions, severe overcrowding

Answer 2

1893-1903

Question 3

Key Dates

Russo-Japanese War

Answer 3

1904-1905

Question 4

Key Dates

Alexander II (Nicholas II’s grandfather): Emancipation Edict

Answer 4

1861

• Establishment of mir: Village Commune
• Zemstvos: Elected local council
  
  • Control over local finance, health care, education, maintenance, etc.

Question 5

Key Dates

Bloody Sunday

Answer 5

9 January 1905

Question 6

Key Dates

Battle of Tsushima

• Russian navi demolished in 24 hours by Japanese navy

Answer 6

May 1905

Question 7

Key Dates

Mutiny of the battle ship Potemkin

Answer 7

July 1905

Question 8

Key Dates

Army troops mutiny and control section of Trans-Siberian Railway

Answer 8

September 1905

Question 9

Key Dates

Establishment of St Petersburg Soviet by Trotsky

Answer 9

October 1905

Question 10

Key Dates

General Strikes halt the Russian economy

Answer 10

October 1905

Question 11

Key Dates

Tsar Nicholas II releases the October Manifesto

Answer 11

17 October 1905

Question 12

Key Dates

Tsar Nicholas II releases Fundamental State Laws

Answer 12

April 1906

Question 13

Key Dates

First Duma

Answer 13

April-July 1906

Question 14

Key Dates

Second Duma

Answer 14

February-June 1907

Question 15

Key Dates

Tsar changes electoral laws

Answer 15

1907

Question 16

Key Dates

Third Duma

Answer 16

1907-1912

Question 17

Key Dates

Fourth Duma

Answer 17

1912-1917

Question 18

Key Dates

Stolypin first in Office

Answer 18

July 1906

Question 19

Key Dates

Lena Goldfields Massacre

Answer 19

April 1912

Question 20

Key Dates

Stolypin Assassinated

Answer 20

October 1911

Question 21

Key Dates

Increase in strikes

Answer 21

???

Question 22

Key Dates

Russia enters WW1

Answer 22

1 August 1914

Question 23

Key Dates

WW1 - by 1915:

• No. men killed
• No. men captured

Answer 23

WW1 - by 1915:

• No. men killed: 4 million
• No. men captured: 16 million

Question 24

Key Dates

Bolshevik ideology spreads through the army (Ruzski)

• ‘The influenceo f Bolshevik ideas is spreading very rapidly’ ~General Ruzski

Answer 24

December 1916

Question 25

# Key Dates Tsar Nicholas II becomes Commander of Russian Army

Answer 25

August 1915

Question 26

# Key Dates International Women's Day strike - 90,000 strikers

Answer 26

23 February 1917

Question 27

# Key Dates Day that the soldiers began to join protesters

Answer 27

26 February 1917

Question 28

# Key Dates Tsar approves formation of Provisional Gov't

Answer 28

1 March 1917

Question 29

# Key Dates Tsar Nicholas Abdicates

Answer 29

2 March 1917

Question 30

# Key Dates Formation of Provisional Gov't

Answer 30

27 February 1917

Question 31

# Key Dates Formation of Petrograd Soviet

Answer 31

28 February 1917

Question 32

# Key Dates Soviet Order No. 1 Released * Ordered that any military orders given by the Prov Gov't 'shall be executed only in such cases as they do not conflict iwth the orders and resolutions of the Soviet'

Answer 32

1 March 1917

Question 33

# Key Dates June Offensive

Answer 33

18 June 1917

Question 34

# Key Dates Lenin Returns to Russia

Answer 34

April 1917

Question 35

# Key Dates Lenin releases *April Theses* * No support for the Provisional Gov't * It must be explained to the masses that the Soviet... [is] the only possible form of the revolutionary gov't... * Confiscation of all landed estates... Disposal of land to be put in charge of the local soviets

Answer 35

4 April 1917

Question 36

# Key Dates July Days

Answer 36

July 1917

Question 37

# Key Dates Kornilov Revolt

Answer 37

August 1917

Question 38

# Key Dates October Revolution

Answer 38

24 October 1917

Question 39

# Key Dates Bolsheviks consolidate power

Answer 39

2 November 1917

Question 40

# Key Dates Bolsheviks take over Moscow

Answer 40

31 October 1917