russia masterdoc

When was N2 crowned

26 May 1896

Khodynka Tragedy

30 May 1896

Russian Social Democratic Labour Party

founded 1898

Socialist Revolutionary Party

emerged in 1901

when did the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party split into Bolshevik and Menshevik factions.

1903

russo jap

1904

bloddy sunday

22 janurary 1905

battle of tsushima

may 1905

Mutiny aboard the battleship Potemkin.

June 1905

Treaty of Portsmouth end the Russo-Japanese War

5 September 1905

St Petersburg Soviet. est

October 1905

October Manifesto

30 October 1905

The Moscow uprising was crushed.

December 1905?

Fundamental Laws issued

23 April 1906

When did the First Duma open

27 April 1906

First Duma dissolved

21 July 1906

agrarian reforms by stolypin

9 November 1906

When did the Second Duma open

20 February 1907

Second Duma dissolved

3 June 1907

stolypin ass

14 sept 1911

Lena Goldfields Massacre

4 April 1912

Germany declare war on Russia

1 August 1914.

Defeats at Tannenberg and the Masurian Lakes.

August 1914

Nich cic

September 1915

Progressive Bloc.

1915

Rasputin was murdered.

30 December 1916

International Women's Day demonstrations in Petrograd.

23 February 1917

A general strike spread across Petrograd.

25 February 1917

Troops fired on demonstrators, military discipline began to collapse.

26 February 1917

Petrograd garrison mutinied; Petrograd Soviet formed.

27 February 1917

Nicholas II abdicated; Romanov autocracy collapsed.

2 March 1917

Provisional Government formed

2 March 1917

soviet order no 1

1 March 1917

Lenin return to Petrograd from exile?

3 April 1917.

The April Theses

4 April 1917

July Days

3-7 July 1917

Alexander Kerensky became head of the Provisional Government

8 July 1917

Kornilov Affair.

August 1917

bolsh Gained a majority in the Petrograd Soviet.

31 August 1917

bolsh Gained a majority in the Moscow Soviet.

9 September 1917

Armed insurrection.

10 October 1917

Bolshevik forces seized strategic locations across Petrograd.

24-25 October 1917

Winter Palace seized; Provisional Government overthrown.

25 October 1917

Decree on Peace and Decree on Land.

26 October 1917

Sovnarkom as the new Bolshevik government.

27 October 1917

Decree on the Press

27 October 1917

Constituent Assembly elections

12 November 1917.

Bolsheviks dissolved the Constituent Assembly.

6 January 1918

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk.

3 March 1918

War Communism.

June 1918

Major industrial enterprises nationalised.

28 June 1918

execution of Nick + fam

16-17 July 1918

Assassination attempt on Lenin by Fanny Kaplan.

30 August 1918

Red Terror.

5 September 1918

Russian Civil War.

1918 to 1920

Grain requisitioning

January 1919

First Congress of the Communist International held?

2-6 March 1919.

Kronstadt rebellion.

28 February 1921

The Petropavlovsk Resolution.

1 March 1921

NEP + ban on fractions introduce at the Tenth Party Congress

March 1921

Kronstadt rebellion crushed

17 March 1921

NEP

21 march 1921

famine

1921

lenins first major stroke

26 May 1922

When was the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics formally established

30 December 1922.

When did Lenin die

21 January 1924.

Trotsky and Zinoviev expelled from the Communist Party.

November 1927

Fifteenth Party Congress endorse Movement toward rapid industrialisation and collectivisation.

December 1927

I am not prepared to be a Tsar.

I am not prepared to be a Tsar. I never wanted to become one. I know nothing of the business of ruling" (Nicholas).

Be more

Be more autocratic than Peter the Great and sterner than Ivan the Terrible" (tsarina)

preserve autocracy

I will preserve the principle of Autocracy (n2)

I pity

I pity the Tsar. I pity Russia…He is obviously a good and quite intelligent man, but he lacks will power, and it is from that character(count sergei witte)

post office

Unfit to run a village post office" (describing Tsar Nicholas II). (unknown gov min)

Dont let

Don't let things slip through your fingers and leave it to him to build all over again. Be firm…How I wish I could pour my will into your veins" (tsarina).

government by violence

That is why it is impossible to maintain this form of government except by violence." - Nicolai Tolstoy

senseless dreams

Those who believe they can share in government dream senseless dreams (n2)

little war

We need a short, victorious war to avert a revolution (witte)

father gapon

here is no God any longer. There is no Tsar / Blood-sucking tsar (father gapon)

constitution head heart

I have a constitution in my head, but as to my heart, I spit on it (witte)

fools paradise

The tragic aspect of the situation is that the Tsar is living in an utter fool's paradise, thinking that He is as strong and all-powerful as before" (October 1st, 1905) (witte)

necktie

Suppression first, and then, and only then, reform (stolypin)

disrespectful to god

I shall never, under any circumstances, agree to a representative form of government because I consider it harmful to the people whom God has entrusted to my care. (n2)

CIC sitc on the front

I have no rifles, no shells, no boots (grand duke nikolai)

slaughter

This is not war, sir, it is slaughter. The Germans use up shells; we use up human lives (russian officer)

millitia

Our army is more like an ill-trained militia (general brusilov)

rasputin on the tsar

The tsar can change his mind from one minute to the next; he's a sad man; he lacks guts.(rasputin)

rodzianko to the tsar

Situation serious. There is anarchy in the capital. Government paralysed. Transport of food and fuel completely disorganized. Public disaffection growing. On the streets chaotic shooting. Army units fire at each other. It is essential at once to entrust a person enjoying the country's confidence with the formation of a new government. There should be no delay. All delay is death" (on the February protests).

tsar to rodzianko

That fat Rodzianko has again sent me some nonsense to which I will not even reply" (reacting to news of mass protests in Petrograd).

tsarina on feburary

This is a hooligan movement, young people run and shout that there is no bread, simply to create excitement,

Guchkov on pg

The Provisional Government does not possess any real power.

kerensky on soviets and PG

the Soviets had power without authority…the Provisional Government authority without power

Unknown protester during the 'July Days'

Take power, you son of a bitch when they give it to you!" (directed at SR, Victor Chernov).

lenin history

History will not forgive us if we do not assume power now.

Gorky on violence

Lenin and his comrades-in-arms think they can commit any crime, like the massacre at Petrograd, the storming of Moscow, abolition of freedom of speech, the senseless arrests - all the abominations that used to be committed by Plehve and Stolypin" (November, 1917).

lenin on the town

The town cannot be equal to the country…the town inevitably leads the country

lenin on exchange

Trust in the mood, but don't forget your rifles

We will not exchange our rifles for a ballot.

unknown

To Citizen Trotsky, I am sending you a New Year's greeting from the whole of the Russian people. you to hell! The blood of these innocent victims cries out to God! What did the worker-demonstrators who were marching peacefully today down Petrograd's streets ever do to you? Why did you fire on them?" (anonymous letter to Trotsky, 5th January 1918).

Karl Radek on rev war

We were always for revolutionary war. The bayonet is an essential necessity for introducing communism.

lenin on civil war

Peace - this is a slogan of philistines and priests. The proletariat slogan must be: Civil War!