Russia dates Flashcards
(96 cards)
1
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Crimean War
A
1854-56
2
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Emancipation of the Serfs
A
1861
3
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Assassination of Alexander II
A
1881
4
Q
Reign of Alexander III
A
1881-1894
5
Q
Witte’s reforms
A
1894-1906
6
Q
Jewish Bund formed
A
1897
7
Q
SD party formed
A
1898
8
Q
SR party formed
A
1901
9
Q
SD’s split into Bolsheviks and Mensheviks
A
1903
10
Q
Russo-Japanese War
A
1904-5
11
Q
Kadets formed
A
1905
12
Q
Octobrists formed
A
1905
13
Q
Bloody Sunday
A
22nd January 1905
14
Q
Unions of Unions formed
A
May 1905
15
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Potemkin mutiny
A
June 1905
16
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October manifesto
A
October 1905
17
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Moscow Soviet set up
A
November 1905
18
Q
First Duma
A
1906
19
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Stolypin as chief minister
A
1906-1911
20
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Fundamental Laws issued
A
1906
21
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Second Duma
A
1907
22
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Third Duma
A
1907-1912
23
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Goldfields episode
A
1912
24
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Fourth Duma
A
1912-1914
25
Germany declare war on Russia
1st August 1914
26
Russias full mobilisation orders are given
30th June 1914
27
Fourth Duma reconvened
June/July 1915
28
Progressive Bloc formed in Duma
25th June 1915
29
Nicholas II becomes commander-in-chief of army
22nd August 1915
30
Putilov strikes
18th February 1917
31
February revolution
18th February - 4th March 1917
32
International Womens day leads to widespread strikes
23rd February 1917
33
Nicholas is prevented from returning to Petrograd
28th February 1917
34
Provisional Government formed from the Duma commitee
2nd March 1917
35
Tsars abdication made public
4th March 1917
36
Lenins April Thesis
4th April 1917
37
Bolsheviks Red Guards formed
20th April 1917
38
Start of Russian offensive against Austria
16th June 1917
39
Failure of the July Days
3rd-6th July 1917
40
Kornilov Affair
1st September 1917
41
Bolshevik uprising against Kerenskys government
25th-26th October 1917
42
Establish Sovnarkom
26th October 1917
43
Congress of Soviets passed decrees on peace and land
26th October 1917
44
Lenin takes power in the name of the Soviets
27th October 1917
45
Bolsheviks issues decrees on land and workers
November 1917
46
Cheka created
December 1917
47
Russian Civil War
1918-1920
48
War communism
1918-1921
49
Bolshevik dissolve the constituent assembly
January 1918
50
Red Army established
January 1918
51
Decree on separation of church and state
January 1918
52
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
March 1918
53
Decree on Nationalism
June 1918
54
Forced grain requisitions
July 1918
55
Murder of the Tsar and his family
July 1918
56
Comintern established
March 1919
57
Bolshevik remained the Communist Party
1919
58
Krondstadt Rising
March 1921
59
Introduction of the NEP
1921
60
Decree against factionalism
1921
61
Soviet state becomes USSR
December 1922
62
Scissor crisis
1923
63
Death of Lenin
1924
64
Trosky stops being war commisionar
1925
65
Kamanev and Zinoviev united opposition
1925
66
Trotsky joins Kamanev and Zinoviev on the left political bloc
1926
67
Komsomol created
1926
68
Trotsky dismissed form central committee
1927
69
Trotsky sent into exile
1927
70
Stalin attacks Right over agricultural policy
1928
71
Collectivisation begins
1928
72
First 5 year plan
1928
73
New religious persecution campaigns
1928
74
Rasputin murdered
1st December 1916
75
Leading figures on the right are finally defeated and demoted in CSPU
1929
76
Trial of the Ryutin group
1932-1933
77
Start of second Five Year Plan
1933
78
Purges being under Yezhov
1933
79
Legal system brought under Stalins control
1933-34
80
Assassination of Kirov
1934
81
Stakhanovite movement
1935
82
New Soviet Constitution
1936
83
Family laws restricting abortion, divorce and homosexuality
1936
84
Housewives movement
1936
85
Show trials
1936-1938
86
Repression of Soviet creative artists
1936-1939
87
Great Purge of the party, army and the people
1936-1939
88
Start of 3rd FYP
1938
89
Literacy rates reach 88%
1940
90
500 churches are open, compared to 50,00 in 1917
1940
91
German invasion and occupation of Russia
1941
92
Purges remove those who undermine the war effort
1941-1945
93
Purges of the Soviet people who were thought to support Germany
1945
94
Leningrad Affair leads to another purge of the party
1949
95
Doctors plot means a purge of the medical profession
1953
96
Stalin dies
1953
