Russian Revolution (1896-1924) Dates

Decree on Press

Oct 27 1917

Formation of the Sovnarkom

Oct 27 1917

Decree on Abolishing Class

Nov 10 1917

Elections for the Constituent Assembly

Nov 12 1917

Workers’ Control Decree

Nov 14 1917

Ceasefire with Germany

Dec 2 1917

Creation of Cheka

Dec 7 1917

Decree of Nationalisation of Banks

Dec 14 1917

Assassination attempt on Lenin

Jan 1 1918

Constituent Assembly convened

Jan 5 1918

Constituent Assembly dissolved

Jan 6 1918

Third All-Russian Congress

Jan 8 1918

Foreign debts annulled

Jan 21 1918

Germany army resumes offensive

Feb 18 1918

Founding of the Red Army

Feb 23 1918

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk signed

Mar 3 1918

Left SRs withdraw from the Sovnarkom

Mar 15 1918

Formal recognition of State Capitalism as economic policy

April 1918

Kornilov killed

Apr 13 1918

Czech Legion overthrows Soviet authorities

May 22 1918

Decree on Kombedy

Jun 11 1918

Right SRs and Mensheviks expelled from soviets

June 14 1918

Decree on Nationalisation

Jun 28 1918

Beginning of War Communism

June 28 1918

Left SRs expelled from soviets

Jul 9 1918

Romanovs murdered

Jul 17 1918

Decree on Red Terror

Sep 5 1918

End of WW1

Nov 11 1918

Renunciation of Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

Nov 13 1918

Decree on the Abolition of Private Trade

Nov 21 1918

Establishment of Zhenotdel

1919

Grain requisitioning squads begin prodrazverstka

January 1919

Decree on ‘Forced Labour Camps’

Aor 11 1919

State Bank prints more money to induce hyperinflation

May 15 1919

Polish-Soviet War

Apr - Aug 1920

Armstice signed between Polish and Soviet governments

12th October 1920

Mass strikes in Moscow and Petrograd

Feb 1921

Kronstadt calls for ‘Soviets without Communists’

Mar 1 1921

Red Army attack on Kronstadt

Mar 7 1921

NEP introduced at 10th Congress

Mar 8 1921

Red Army captures Kronstadt

Mar 17 1921

Treaty of Riga

Mar 18 1921

Russian Famine

June 1921-1922

Cheka renamed as GPU

Feb 6 1922

Deportation of Soviet intellectuals

May-Sep1922

American aid accepted by the Bolsheviks

~June 1922

Lenin’s death

Jan 21 1924

Tsar Nicholas II Crowning

May 18 1896

Russo-Japanese War begins

Feb 8 1904

4 workers dimissed from the Putilov Steel Factory

Dec 4 1905

Bloody Sunday

Jan 9 1905

Battle of Mukden

Feb 20 1905

Union of Unions formed

May 8 1905

Battle of Tsushima

May 14 1905

Potemkin Mutiny

June 14 1905

Treaty of Portsmouth

Sep 5 1905

October Manifesto

Oct 17th 1905

Tsar’s Fundamental Laws

Apr 23 1906

First Duma

Apr-Jul 1906

Second Duma

Feb-Jun 1907

Third Duma

Nov 1907-Jun 1912

Fourth Duma

Nov 1912-Aug 1912

Appointment of Stolypin as PM 

Jun 1906

WW1 Begins

Jul 28 1914

Tsar takes control of army

Aug 23 1915

Ministered Leap Frogging

Sep 1915-Feb 1917

Bread rationing begins

Feb 19 1917

Begining of Feb Rev

Feb 18 1917

International Women’s Day Protests

Feb 23 1917

Tsar reacts with violence

Feb 26 1917

Petrograd Mutiny

Feb 27 1917

Provisional Government forms

Feb 28 1917

Abdication of Tsar Nicholas II

Mar 2 1917

Lenin’s return + April Thesis

Apr 3 1917

Milyukov’s note (Russia’s continued war efforts)

Apr 18 1917

June Offensive

Jun 18 1917

Kerensky becomes PM

Jul 8 1917

Reintroduction of the death penalty

Jul 12 1917

Kornilov affair

Aug 25 1917

Beginning of October Rev

Oct 10 1917

Formation of the Milrevkom

Oct 16 1917

Prov Gov troops attempt to close printing press

Oct 24 1917

Red Guards storm the Winter Palace

Oct 25 1917

Overthrowing of the Prov. Gov. + Mensheviks and SRs walk out

Oct 26th 1917

Decree on Peace

Oct 26 1917

Decree on Land

Oct 26 1917