REVOLUTIONS, CONSTITUTIONS AND LEGISLATURE

all the key dates of legislature, rev and consititution across the whole time period. Taken from revision booklet

Provincial zemstva established

1864

emancipation of the serfs

1861

urban dumas established

1870

Alexander II to sign documents for consultative assembly

1881

Revolution and formation and formation of St Petersburg soviet

1905

October Manifesto issued by Nick II

1905

Fundamental laws establishing a new constitution

1906

First and second dumas dissolved

1906-7

Electoral law restricting the franchises

1907

Third Duma

1907-12

Fourth Duma

1912-17

March Revolution and overthrow of Tsarism

Establishment of Petrograd Soviet

March 1917

Overthrow of Provisional Government by Bolsheviks

October 1917

Bolsheviks announce elections for constituent assembly

November 1917

Constituent Assembly elected and immediately dissolved by Lenin

1918

Constitution of the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic

1918

treaty signed for new federal constitution

1922

Constitution of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)

1924

Stalin’s Constitution

1936

End of Soviet Union

1991

Establishment of Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)

1992

Introduction of state bank

1860

State peasant bank

1881

Vyshnegradski appointed finance minister

1887-92

Witte appointed finance minister

1892-1903

End of responsibility of communes for land tenures

1903

Bloody Sunday

1905

End of redemption payments

1905

Law on Associations

1906

Stolypins land reforms

1906-11

Decree on land

1917

Introduction of War Communism

1918

Introduction of NEP

1921

First Famine

1921-22

Financial Crisis

1922

Procurement crisis

1926-27

Introduction of collectivisation

1929

First Five-year plan

1928

Second Famine

1932-33

Second Five-year plan

1933

Third Five-year plan (interrupted by Nazi invasion 1941)

1938

Nazi invasion of Russia

1941

Fourth Five-year plan

1946

Establishment of Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (Comecon)

1949

Fifth Five-year plan

1951

launch of virgin-lands scheme

1954

Sixth five-year plan

1956

Seven-year plan

1959

decentralisation of industry and construction

1957

Reform of wage structure

1960

Harvest Failure

1963