Timeline

Question 1

When did the Four Dumas meet?

Answer 1

1906-14

Question 2

When was the tightening of censorship and famine in Ukraine?

Answer 2

1946-7

Question 3

When was the first Five-Year Plan introduced?

Answer 3

1928

Question 4

When was the Cuban Missile Crisis?

Answer 4

1962

Question 5

When did the Virgin Lands campaign begin?

Answer 5

1954

Question 6

When was the Russian Civil War?

Answer 6

1917-22

Question 7

When was the Emancipation of the serfs?

Answer 7

1861

Question 8

When was the formation of the Socialist Revolutionaries (SRs)?

Answer 8

1901

Question 9

When was the February Revolution?

Answer 9

1917

Question 10

When was the formation of the Social Democrats (SDs)?

Answer 10

1898

Question 11

When was the Kronstadt Rising and famine?

Answer 11

1921

Question 12

When was the Holodomor?

Answer 12

1932-4

Question 13

When was Bloody Sunday?

Answer 13

1905

Question 14

When did the Cold War start?

Answer 14

1947

Question 15

When was the Great Terror?

Answer 15

1936-38

Question 16

When did Lenin die?

Answer 16

1924

Question 17

When was the formation of East Germany?

Answer 17

1949

Question 18

When was the Russo-Turkish War?

Answer 18

1877-8

Question 19

When was the Peasant Land Bank created?

Answer 19

1883

Question 20

When were the Zemstvo law and legal reforms?

Answer 20

1864

Question 21

When was the Berlin Blockade?

Answer 21

1948-9

Question 22

When was the assassination of Alexander II and start of the reaction?

Answer 22

1881

Question 23

When was the Doctors’ Plot exposed?

Answer 23

1953

Question 24

When was the creation of the Warsaw Pact?

Answer 24

1955

Question 25

When was the Korean War?

Answer 25

1950-3

Question 26

When were the Fundamental Laws passed?

Answer 26

1906

Question 27

When was the Japanese invasion of Manchuria?

Answer 27

1931

Question 28

When was the Russo-Polish War?

Answer 28

1920

Question 29

When was the Russo-Japanese War?

Answer 29

1904-5

Question 30

When was the Constituent Assembly abolished and a new constitution formed?

Answer 30

1918

Question 31

When were Stolypin’s reforms?

Answer 31

1906-11

Question 32

When did the SDs split into Bolsheviks and Mensheviks?

Answer 32

1903

Question 33

When was Witte’s ‘Great Spurt’?

Answer 33

1892-3

Question 34

When was Khrushchev deposed?

Answer 34

1964

Question 35

When was the first assassination attempt against Alexander II?

Answer 35

1866

Question 36

When was the military coup in Czechoslovakia?

Answer 36

1948

Question 37

When was War Communism?

Answer 37

1918-21

Question 38

When was the failed assassination attempt against Alexander III?

Answer 38

1887

Question 39

When was the introduction of land captains?

Answer 39

1889

Question 40

When was the Hungarian Uprising?

Answer 40

1956

Question 41

When was the easing of censorship under Alexander II?

Answer 41

1865

Question 42

When was the October Manifesto?

Answer 42

1905

Question 43

When was Khrushchev’s Secret Speech denouncing Stalin?

Answer 43

1956

Question 44

When were the Yalta and Potsdam Conferences?

Answer 44

1945

Question 45

When was the Leningrad purge and the formation of Comecon?

Answer 45

1949

Question 46

When was the Polish Revolt and start of Russification?

Answer 46

1863

Question 47

When was the Crimean War?

Answer 47

1853-6

Question 48

When was the New Economic Policy (NEP)?

Answer 48

1921-7

Question 49

When was the famine in seventeen provinces under Alexander III?

Answer 49

1891

Question 50

When did Stalin come to power?

Answer 50

Between 1924 and 1928

Question 51

When did opposition groups grow (Narodniks, Land and Liberty, People’s Will) under Alexander II?

Answer 51

1870s