Thematic studies

Alexander II reign duration

march 1855- 13th of march 1881

Alexander III reign duration

13th of march 1881- 1st November 1894

Nicholas II reign duration

November 1st 1894- March 15th 1917

Lenin’s time in power

Nov 1917- January 21st 1924

Stalin time in power

circa 1924- March 5th 1953

Nikita Khrushchev time in power

circa 1953-14th of October 1964

treaty of brest-litovsk

march 3rd 1918

cuban missile crisis dates

oct 16th-29th 1964

destalinsation speech

feb 25th 1956

alex II 1st assignation attempt

1866

great empication statue

1861

Committee of peasant affairs

1857

zemstva est

1864

committee of peasant affairs

1857

peasant land banks

1883

when did Alexander III make adjustments to the procvision of education

1884

jews expelled from Moscow

march 1881

statue for social security

aug 1881

Alex 3 executed Lenin’s brother

1887

land captains

1889

when did Russia join WW1

July 30th 1914

when did Nicholas II place all troops under his military command

august 1915

fundamental laws of 1906

April 1906

Bloody Sunday

jan 9th 1905

October mainifesto

oct 30th 1905

duma est

1906

russian civil war

7 Nov 1917 to 25 Oct 1922

St Petersburgs strikes

1895, 1896 and 1897

russian social democratic worker’s party established

march 1898

‘what is there to be done’ published in Iskva no.18

march 10th 1902

Stalin’s five year plan introduced

1st of October 1928

great purge

1936-38

when was the communist manifesto

21st feb 1848

Kronstadt revolt

1st to 18th of march 1921

Malenkov resings as Prime Minister of USSR

8th feb 1955

Beria executed

23rd Dec 1953

Germany invades USSR

22nd june 1941

Béla Kum assianted

29th sept 1938

when were 4 union members at the Putilov iron work plants in St. Petersburg dismisse

late 1904

Japanse sunk Russian baltic fleet in one afternoon- a fleet that set sail 3 months prior for the battle.

May 1905

years Nicholas II disbanded Duma

1906, 1907 and 1917

imperial council of state est date

1810

committee of ministers established

nov 12th 1861

council of ministers disbanded by Alex II

1882

central government institutions (how Russian gov run) time span

1855-1905

committee of ministers abolished

1906

When were the fundamental laws passed

23rd april 1906

Nicholas II negotiated a substantial loan agreement with france

1906

First duma

April- july 1906

2nd duma

February to june 1907

The 3rd duma

Nov 1907 to june 1912

4th duma

Nov 1912 to feb 1917

Lena goldfields coal striker

4th april 1912

Duma people demanded a national government to take charge of war effort

1915

Nicholas II suspended duma

August 1915

About 150,000 went to st. Petersburg to celebrate Bloody sunday anniversary

9th jan 1917

Putilov steel workers strike

18th feb 1917

International womens day marches and putilov workers strike joined forces to protest poor working/living conditions

23rd feb 1917

General strikers fired at by troops. Rodzianko-duma president- wanted tsar to ‘change’ attitude towards governing

25th feb 1917

Duma defined tsar’s instructions to disband with a major turning point being the troops (1/2 of the petrograd garrison) joining protesters

26th feb 1917

Petrograd soviet formed with the provisional duma committee foundation of governornce though a dual authority and clear indication that tsar considered unfit to rule by majory of senior politicians

27th feb 1917

Soviet order no.1 passed— petrograd soviet given total control over russian military

1st march 1917

Nicholas II abidcated under pressure from close advisers and family with a elected provisional government formed to deal with criris till election for a constitutional assembly could be held

2nd march 1917

Bread rationing introduced

19th feb 1917

St. Petersburg renamed to petrograd cos it sounded german

Aug 1914

kadets- a constituanal democrats liberal poltical group formed

1905

when right-wing SR and Mensheviks walked out of the second all-russian congress of soviets

oct 25th 1917

3rd all-russian congress of soviets sanctioned the closure of the constituent assembly

jan 23rd- jan 31st 1918

July days

3rd-6th July 1917

Sokolbikov signs a treaty with the triple alliance to end Russia’s role in the war

3rd dec 1917

decree of land passed

8th of nov 1917

Cheka disbanded

1922

cheka formed

20th dec 1917

lenin signhed the decree that led to the cheka being formed day later

19th dec 1917

menschviks and SRs expelled from all Russian committee of soviets

summer 1918

Zemstvo est

1864

Urban equivalent zemstrva est in cities

1870

Duma+ zemtrva abolished by bolshbiks 

1917

st. Petersburg council referred to as the council of workers deputies

1917

bolshevik party had 80,000 members in 78 local organisations

April 1917

July 1917

bolshevik party had 200,000 members in 162 local organsiations with Petrograd alone having 41,000

1864

legal reform passes that introduced jury systems and a hierarchy in court cases amongst other things

1877

new senate department est to try political cases, ultimately didn't work

1881

police centriased under minister of the interior as Alex III moved away from his fathers more liberal policies

post 1917

Communist rule meant that ‘revoluntuay justice’ was preveltn and 1921 rule about terror being a allowed deterrence proved this

1879

the Vera Zasulich case

1921

party membership at 730,000

1928

party membership at over 1 million

1918

new constitution made the RSFSR

1924

new institution made the USSR

1936

new constitution suggested freedom for USSR people

15th of June 1940

Red army begins annexation of Estonia, Lithuania and Lativa

1977

new changes to the USSR constitution introduced elements of liberalism

1864

1836 books published

1894

89 newspapers and 10,691 books published

agitation and propganda deparmnet est

1921

1946

MUD+ MGB est

1960

estimated 11,000 counter revolunrtaies

1934

union of soviet writers first meeting+the NKVD is established

1932

all literaty groups shut down by Stalin