RUSSIA - Key Dates

Question 1

Bloody Sunday - Group of peasants shot at during a peaceful protest.

Answer 1

Jan 22nd 1905

Question 2

First Duma created

Answer 2

May 1906

Question 3

4th Duma shut down

Answer 3

Mar 1917

Question 4

National Womens day protests

Answer 4

23rd Feb 1917

Question 5

Tsar Nicholas II abdicated and provisional Government created

Answer 5

2nd March 1917

Question 6

June Offensive

Answer 6

June 1917

Question 7

July Days

Answer 7

July 1917

Question 8

Kornilov Revolt

Answer 8

August 1917

Question 9

October Revolution

aka. Red October

Answer 9

24-25th October 1917

Question 10

Order Number 1 Passed

Answer 10

1st March 1917

Question 11

Lenin returns to Russia/ April thesis

Answer 11

April 1917

Question 12

Treaty of Brest Litovsk signed - Start of Civil War

Answer 12

March 1918

Question 13

Tsar and his family killed

Answer 13

July 1918

Question 14

Russian Civil War

Answer 14

1918-1920 Red Win

Question 15

Krondstadt Mutiny (previously loyal sailors revolt) and NEP started

Answer 15

March 1921

Question 16

Formation of the USSR

Answer 16

1924

Question 17

Cheka (Bolshevik secret police) etablished

Answer 17

1917

Question 18

Lenin Dies

Answer 18

Jan 1924

Question 19

Stalin rises to power - defeating all opponents using tactics such as “the left turn”.

Answer 19

1929

Question 20

The Great Terror

Answer 20

1930

Question 21

Trotsky exiled from USSR for breaking Lenin’s law of factions.

Answer 21

1929

Question 22

First 5 year plan - Industrial Output greatly increased eg. coal, iron, steel

Answer 22

1928-32

Question 23

Second 5 year Plan - Continuation of 1 but with consumer goods as well

Answer 23

1933-37

Question 24

Third 5 year Plan - Improvements to education, military and equipment

Answer 24

1938-41 (cut short due to German invasion)

Question 25

Start of collectivisation

Answer 25

1928

Question 26

"Liquidation of the kulaks" begins

Answer 26

1929

Question 27

Stalin halts collectivisation to deceive more farmers into harvesting

Answer 27

1930

Question 28

The Holodomor in the Ukraine

Answer 28

1932-33

Question 29

Bukharin show trial

Answer 29

1938

Question 30

Sergei Kirov murdered, his death is blamed on Zinoview and Kamenev who are put on show trial short afterwards.

Answer 30

Dec 1934

Question 31

Yezhovchina begins as Yezhov is appointed head of NKVD. Later, he was blamed for purgin and killed.

Answer 31

1937-8

Question 32

Leon Trotsky killed in Mexico. Assasin is pardoned awarded with the order of Lenin.

Answer 32

August 1940

Question 33

World War 2 starts

Answer 33

1939

Question 34

Constitution made to show how the USSR was "democratic" and gain allies for the war

Answer 34

1936 Constiution

Question 35

Event where Sergei Kirov recieved more votes that Stalin.

Answer 35

1934 | The 17th Party Congress

Question 36

Trial of Zinoviev and Kamenev?

Answer 36

1936

Question 37

The Second Great Show Trial

Answer 37

1937 21 high ranking officers were put on trial

Question 38

The Women's section of the Communist party "Zhenotdel" closes down

Answer 38

1930 It was believed that equality had been reached.

Question 39

Stalin increased the price of Divorce to try to demotivate married couples divorcing

Answer 39

1936

Question 40

The right for a woman to have an abortion banned

Answer 40

1936 This was to increase birth rate

Question 41

Male Homosexuality was made illegal

Answer 41

1933 It was legalised in 1922 but was later outlawed by Stalin to try to "return to traditional values"

Question 42

By what year were there only 500 Russian Orhtodox churches remaining in the country

Answer 42

1941 It had been reduced from 54,000 to 500 between 1914 and 1941.

Question 43

71,000 Ethnic Koreans were deported to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan

Answer 43

1937

Question 44

Going on Hajj to Mecca was banned for Muslims living in the USSR

Answer 44

1930s

Question 45

Polish operation 100,000 Poles and "people with Polish Sympathies" were executed by the NKVD

Answer 45

1937

Question 46

Stalins speech saying how the USSR was "50 to 100 years behind the west"

Answer 46

1931

Question 47

The dnieper dam built It was used as a showpiece to tell other countries how advanced the now USSR was.

Answer 47

1927

Question 48

Average lifespan of a Tractor

Answer 48

70 days

Question 49

The Red Terror At least 12,000 people were executed by the Cheka (Lenin's secret police)

Answer 49

1918-21

Question 50

The first meeting of the constituent assembly They were created to become a permanent and democratic government but failed

Answer 50

1918

Question 51

Alexander Kerensky appointed Prime Minister of Russia. He replaced Prince Lvov.

Answer 51

July 1917

Question 52

Time period that Tsar Nicholas II ruled for He ended the Romanov dynasty which has been going on for over 300 years.

Answer 52

1896 - 1917 He took over from his father, Alexander II

Question 53

October Manifesto ``` As a reply to the revolutions occurring around the country. It included: - Freedom of speech - End of Censorship - Freedom to meet openly - The right to form political Parties Many of these were not upheld ```

Answer 53

1905

Question 54

Rasputin dies

Answer 54

1916

Question 55

The Decrees of 1917 Included decrees on; Land, peace, work, press, banking, marriage.

Answer 55

November and December 1917

Question 56

Ex mensheviks shot as "wreckers"

Answer 56

1931

Question 57

53 managers of Shakhty coal mines put on trial after being accused of conspiring to sabotage the Soviet Economy.

Answer 57

1928

Question 58

Henrikh Yagoda head of NKVD

Answer 58

July 1934 - 1936

Question 59

Ryutin Affair Martemyan Ryutin Crisitcises Stalin and collectivisation. The politburo would not let Stalin kill him and is then imprisoned. Later he is killed after being retried in 1937.

Answer 59

1932

Question 60

Nikolai Yezhov head of NKVD

Answer 60

1936 - 1938 Later killed in 1939 secretly after being blamed and confessing to crimes he did not committ. Edited out of photos.

Question 61

Stalin Constitution

Answer 61

1936