Russia Timeline Flashcards
(42 cards)
WW1
1914
Advance into AuG
Aug
1914
Battle of Tannenburg
Aug
1914
Battle of Mansurian Lakes
Dec
1914
Aug forced RU retreat
May
1915
Tsar commands RU
Aug
1915
DE+Ah controlled 13% of RU
1915
Brusilov offensive
June
1916
All gains lost
WInter
1916
Harsh winter
1917
Rodzianko told Tsar that he could not rely on closest supporters
Feb 14
1917
Strike at Putilov engineering works, want higher wages because of inflation
Feb 18
1917
Many women joined 100000 strikers in Petrograd
Feb 23
200000 strikers
Feb 24
1917
Strikes all over the city, 300000 demostrators, no newspapers, public transport, police sympathise with protestors
Feb 25
1917
Tsar told army to restore order, some deserted
Feb 26
Buildings looted, Petrograd garrison mutinied, Tsar ordered Duma to dissolve, 12 refused and formed the provisional Committee, first meeting of Petrograd Soviet
Feb 27
1917
Soviet issues newspapers, declaring intentions of removing old system of govt
Feb 28
1917
PS ordered SONI
March 1
1917
Tsar abdicates
March 2
1917
PC=>PG
March 3
1917
Lenin returns from exile with the April Thesis
April
1917
July Days
July
1917
40 Bolshevik newspaper
July 1917