Timeline

Question 1

Emancipation Edict

Answer 1

1861

Question 2

Military Reforms

Answer 2

1862-74

Question 3

Polish Rebellion

Answer 3

1863

Question 3

Local Government reforms - Zemstva established

Answer 3

1864

Question 4

Relaxtion of Censorship reform

Answer 4

1865

Question 5

Assasination attempt on Alexander II

Answer 5

1866

Question 5

Introduction of the Dumas

Answer 5

1870

Question 5

Russian publication of Marx’s ‘Das Kapital’

Answer 5

1872

Question 6

Military Service reforms - 25 years to 6

Answer 6

1874

Question 7

Revolutionary peasant socialists - Land and Liberty

Answer 7

1876-79

Question 8

People’s will established - offshoot of Land and Liberty

Answer 8

1879

Question 9

Assasination of Alexander II

Answer 9

13th March 1881

Question 10

Counter-reform on Censorship

Answer 10

1881-82

Question 11

Formation of Peasants’ land bank

Answer 11

1883

Question 12

Counter reforms for education

Answer 12

1884

Question 13

Nobles Land bank ; Abolition of Poll Tax

Answer 13

1885

Question 14

Russification in borderlands

Answer 14

1885-1900

Question 15

Vyshnegradsky is Finance Minister

Answer 15

1887 - 1892

Question 16

Land Captains established

Answer 16

1889

Question 17

Death of Alexander III –> Nicholas II becomes Tsar

Answer 17

1894

Question 17

Great Famine

Answer 17

1891-92

Question 17

Zemstvo counter reform - restriction of franchise

Answer 17

1890

Question 18

Sergei Witte is Finance Minister

Answer 18

1892-1903

Question 18

Foundation of the SDs

Answer 18

1898

Question 19

Russia adopts the Gold Standard

Answer 19

1897

Question 19

SRs established

Answer 19

1899

Question 20

Agrarian and industrial unrest

Answer 20

1901-05

Question 21

Main section of Trans-Siberian railway complete

Answer 21

1903

Question 22

Russo-Japanese War

Answer 22

1904

Question 22

Putilov Iron Works Strike

Answer 22

3rd January 1905

Question 23

Bloody Sunday

Answer 23

22nd January 1905

Question 24

'Union of Unions' formed

Answer 24

9th May 1905

Question 25

Pötemkin Battleship Mutiny

Answer 25

14th June 1905

Question 26

October Manifesto - promises political reform and civil rights

Answer 26

October 1905

Question 27

First State Duma

Answer 27

1906

Question 28

Stolypin assasinated

Answer 28

November 1911

Question 28

3rd State Duma

Answer 28

1907-12

Question 29

Second Duma - dissolved within few months

Answer 29

1907

Question 30

Lena Goldfields Massacre

Answer 30

1912

Question 31

Vera Zasulich Trial

Answer 31

1878

Question 32

Judiciary Reforms

Answer 32

1864

Question 33

Port Arthur surrenders to Japan

Answer 33

20th Dec 1904

Question 34

Elementary school reform

Answer 34

1864

Question 35

4th Duma

Answer 35

1912

Question 35

Industrial Unrest

Answer 35

1912

Question 36

Stolypin alters electoral laws - favours nobility

Answer 36

1907

Question 37

Stolypin begins programme of agrarian reform

Answer 37

1906

Question 38

Plehve Assasinated

Answer 38

28th July 1904

Question 39

Narodniks 'Go to the people'

Answer 39

1874

Question 40

SDs split into Bolsheviks and Mensheviks

Answer 40

1903

Question 41

Widespread labour strikes

Answer 41

1903

Question 42

Von Reutern MoF

Answer 42

1862-1877

Question 43

State Bank established

Answer 43

1860

Question 44

Savings Bank established

Answer 44

1869

Question 45

Peasants can leave the Mir

Answer 45

November 1906

Question 46

Redemption Payments abolished

Answer 46

January 1907

Question 47

Loris-Melikov Constitution Proposals

Answer 47

13 March 1881 - Alex II assassinated same day

Question 48

Temporary laws / legalisation of Trade Unions

Answer 48

4 March 1906