Unit 4: AOS 1: Causes of the Russian Revolution Timeline

Question 1

When did Marx and Engels publish the communist manifesto?

Answer 1

1848

Question 2

When was the emancipation of the serfs?

Answer 2

1861

Question 3

When did Tsar Nicholas come to power?

Answer 3

1894

Question 4

When was the coronation of Tsar Nicholas and Tsarina Alexandra; Khodynak Field tradegy?

Answer 4

14 May 1896

Question 5

When did the Social Democrats split into Bolshevik and Menshevik factions?

Answer 5

July-August 1903

Question 6

When was the Japanese attack on Port Authur in China, sparking the Russo-Japanese War?

Answer 6

8 February 1904

Question 7

When was the Russo-Japanese War?

Answer 7

8 February 1904 - 5 September 1905

Question 8

When was the national congress of the Zemstovs?

Answer 8

6-9 November 1904

Question 9

When did the dismissal of 4 workers from Putilov Steelworks in St Petersburg trigger the widespread Industrial Revolution?

Answer 9

December 1904

Question 10

When were there major strikes in St Petersburg?

Answer 10

7-8 January 1905

Question 11

When was the Bloody Sunday Massacre?

Answer 11

9 January 1905

Question 12

When was the Russian defeat at Mukden?

Answer 12

February 1905

Question 13

When was the Union of Unions formed?

Answer 13

8 May 1905

Question 14

When was the Russian defeat in the battle of Tsushima?

Answer 14

14 May 1905

Question 15

When was the mutiny on the battleship Potemkin?

Answer 15

8 June 1905

Question 16

When was the Treaty of Portsmouth ending the Russo-Japanese War?

Answer 16

5 September 1905

Question 17

When was St Petersburg paralysed by general strike?

Answer 17

14 October 1905

Question 18

When was the October Manifesto released?

Answer 18

17 October 1905

Question 19

When was the Moscow Soviet workers’ uprising?

Answer 19

7-18 December 1905

Question 20

When was the Moscow uprising suppressed by force?

Answer 20

8 December 1905

Question 21

When did factions lead to splits in the socialist Revolutionary Party?

Answer 21

1906

Question 22

When did Sergi Witte resign as Prime Minister?

Answer 22

April 1906

Question 23

When were the fundamental Laws passed?

Answer 23

23 April 1906

Question 24

When did the First Duma?

Answer 24

27 April - 9 July 1906

Question 25

When was Stolypin appointed Prime Minister?

Answer 25

June 1906

Question 26

When did the Second Duma open?

Answer 26

20 February 1907

Question 27

When did the Second Duma dissolve and new electoral laws passed?

Answer 27

3 June 1907

Question 28

When was the Third Duma

Answer 28

7 November 1907 - June 1912

Question 29

When were the striking workers at Lena minefield massacred by tsarist forces?

Answer 29

4 November 1912

Question 30

When was the Fourth Duma?

Answer 30

15 November 1912 - August 1914

Question 31

When was the battle of Tannenburg?

Answer 31

28-31 August 1914

Question 32

When was the Russian Army defeated at Masurian Lakes?

Answer 32

15 September 1914

Question 33

When did Tsar Nicholas take charge of the armed forces?

Answer 33

22 August 1915

Question 34

When did the Tsar dismiss the 4th Duma?

Answer 34

2 September 1915

Question 35

When was the Brusilov offensive?

Answer 35

4 June - 20 September 1916

Question 36

When was Rasputin murdered?

Answer 36

16 December 1916

Question 37

When were 150,000 demonstraters in memory of Bloody Sunday?

Answer 37

9 January 1917

Question 38

When was Putilov Steelworks strike?

Answer 38

18 January 1917

Question 39

When were the International Women's Day marches?

Answer 39

23 February 1917

Question 40

When did the Duma defy Tsar's order to disband?

Answer 40

26 February 1917

Question 41

When was the Petrograd garrison mutiny; the Petrograd Soviet formed; The Provisional Committee assumes authority?

Answer 41

27 February 1917

Question 42

When was the Soviet Order No 1?

Answer 42

1 March 1917

Question 43

When did the Tsar Abdicate the throne? When was the Provisional Government formed?

Answer 43

2 March 1917

Question 44

When did Tsereteli returns to Russia and develops Revolutionary Defencism?

Answer 44

20 March 1917

Question 45

when did the provisional government release its declaration of war aims?

Answer 45

27 March 1917

Question 46

When did Lenin returns to Russia and presents his April These?

Answer 46

3 - 4 April 1917

Question 47

When did Miliukov puts forward his note?

Answer 47

18 April 1917

Question 48

When did riots in Petrograd against Provisional Government's handling of war

Answer 48

20 April 1917

Question 49

When did Trotsky returns to Russia?

Answer 49

4 May 1917

Question 50

when was the first coalition government?

Answer 50

5 May 1917

Question 51

When was Kerensky's June Offensive?

Answer 51

18 June - 2 July 1917

Question 52

When were the July Days?

Answer 52

3 - 6 July 1917

Question 53

When did Kerensky become Prime Minister?

Answer 53

8 July 1917

Question 54

When was Kornilov appointed Supreme Commander of the armed forces?

Answer 54

18 July 1917

Question 55

When was the Second Coalition Government?

Answer 55

25 July 1917

Question 56

When was Moscow state conference?

Answer 56

12 - 15 August 1917

Question 57

When was the Kornilov Affair?

Answer 57

19 - 30 August 1917

Question 58

When did the Bolsheviks achieve majority in the Moscow Soviet?

Answer 58

2 September 1917

Question 59

When did the Bolsheviks gain majority in the Petrograd Soviet?

Answer 59

13 September 1917

Question 60

When was the democratic state conference?

Answer 60

14-19 September 1917

Question 61

When was the third coalition government; Trotsky becomes chairman of Petrograd Soviet; Lenin revives slogan 'all power to the soviets'?

Answer 61

25 September 1917

Question 62

When does Parliament open?

Answer 62

7 October 1917

Question 63

When did the Bolsheviks central committee meets to discuss whether to seize power from the Provisional Government?

Answer 63

10 October 1917

Question 64

When was the first full meeting of Military Revolutionary Committee (Milrevcom)?

Answer 64

16 October 1917

Question 65

When did Kerensky order arrest of leading Bolsheviks, closure of Bolsheviks newspapers and raising the bridges of central Petrograd?

Answer 65

23 - 24 October 1917

Question 66

When did Trotsky's Milrevcom troops and Red Guards begin to re-take city from Kerensky's forces?

Answer 66

24 October 1917

Question 67

When did a Bolshevik-led insurrection seizes power in the 'storming' of the Winter Palace Second All-Russian Congress of Soviets

Answer 67

25 - 26 October 1917