HISTORY 3/4 DATES + QUOTES + STATS

china and russian revolutions

1613

Romanov Dynasty comes to power

1861

Emancipation of the serfs

1891

Construction of Trans Siberian Railway

1893-1903

Industrialisation known as the Great Spur, initiated by Sergei Witte

14 May 1896

Coronation of Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra; Khodynka Field Tragedy

1897

Russian Rouble placed on gold standard

1898

SDs founded

1901

SRs formally established

March 1902

‘What is to be done?’ published by Lenin

July-August 1903 

SDs split into Bolsheviks and Mensheviks

8 February 1904

Japanese attack on Port Arthur sparks Russo-Japanese War

6-9 November 1904

National Congress of the Zemstvos

20 December 1904

Port Arthur surrenders to Japanese

December 1904

4 workers dismissed from Putilov Steelworks → triggers widespread industrial unrest

Jan 2 1905

Russia surrenders Port Arthur

7-8 January 1905

Major strikes in St Petersburg

9 January 1905

Bloody Sunday Massacre

February 1905

Battle of Mukden; Russia defeated

8 May 1905

Union of Unions formed

14 May 1905

Battle of Tsushima, Russia defeated

14 June 1905

Potemkin Mutiny

5 September 1905

Treaty of Portsmouth, end of Russo-Japanese War

14 October 1905

St Petersburg paralysed by general strike

17 October 1905

October Manifesto

8 December 1905

Moscow uprising suppressed by force

April 1906

Sergei Witte resigns

23 April 1906

Fundamental Laws passed

27 April 1906

First Duma opens

June 1906

Stolypin appointed Prime Minister

8 July 1906

First Duma dissolved

20 February 1907

Second Duma opens

3 June 1907 

Second Duma dissolved and new electoral laws passed

7 November 1907

Third Duma opens

1 September 1911

Stolypin assassinated

1912

Bolsheviks and Mensheviks officially split

4 November 1912

Lena Goldfields Massacre

15 November 1912

Fourth Duma convened; remains in session until 1914

1 August 1914 (N.S.)

Germany declares war on Russia

28-31 August 1914

Battle of Tannenberg

15 September 1914

Russian army defeated at Mansurian Lakes

22 August 1915

Tsar Nicholas takes control of Russian army

25 August 1915

Progressive Bloc in Duma calls for reform of ministers

2 September 1915

Tsar dismisses Duma

4 June - 20 September 1916

Brusilov Offensive

16 December 1916

Rasputin murdered

9 January 1917

Bloody Sunday memorial demonstrations

18 January 1917

Putilov Steelworks strike

23 February 1917

International Women’s Day Marches

26 February 1917

Duma defies Tsar’s order to disband

27 February 1917

Petrograd Garrison mutiny, Petrograd Soviet formed, Provisional Committee assumes authority

1 March 1917

Soviet Order No.1

2 March 1917

Abdication of Tsar, Provisional Government formed

3-4 April 1917

Lenin returns to Russia and presents his April Theses

20 April 1917

Riots in Petrograd over the Provisional Government’s handling of war

4 May 1917

Trotsky returns to Russia

5 May 1917

First Coalition Government

18 June - 2 July 1917

Kerenksy’s June Offensive

3-6 July

July Days

8 July 1917

Kerensky becomes Prime Minister

12-15 August 1917

Moscow State Conference

19-30 August 1917

Kornilov Affair

2 September 1917

Bolsheviks achieve majority in Moscow Soviet

13 September 1917

Bolsheviks gain majority in Petrograd Soviet

25 September 1917

Trotsky becomes Chairman of Petrograd Soviet; Lenin revives ‘All Power to the Soviets’

10 October 1917

Bolshevik Central Committee meets to discuss whether to seize power from the Provisional Government

16 October 1917

First meeting of the Milrevcom

23-24 October 1917

Kerensky orders arrest of leading Bolsheviks, closure of Bolshevik newspapers and raising the bridges of central Petrograd

24 October 1917

Trotsky’s Milrevcom troops and Red Guards begin to re-take the city from Kerensky’s forces

25-26 October 1917

Bolshevik insurrection seizes power in storming of Winter Palace

27 October 1917

Sovnarkom declared

Nationalities in the Russian Empire

60

Population Russia Empire 1897

126 million

Population Russian Empire 1914

161 million people

Peasants percentage

82% 

Workers percentage 

4%

Commercial class

1.5%

Upper class

12%

Ruling class

0.5%

How many peasants were there for each police officer controlling them?

3,850

How many people died and were injured in the Khodynka tragedy?

1,389 and 1,300

Russia’s GDP growth from 1898 to 1913

97%

Coal output between 1890 and 1900

Tripled

Railways under Witte

Nearly doubled

Foreign investment numbers from 1880 to 1900

98 million roubles to 911 million roubles

Casualties at Port Arthur

31,000

Casualties at Mukden

90,000

Russian killed or taken at Tsushima

10,000

Japanese casualties at Tsushima

117

Military production during Russo-Japanese war

Increased by 50%

How many people per apartment and room, and how long were the work weeks?

16 people in one apartment 6 people per room
There were 60-hour workweeks

People killed at Bloody Sunday

200

People injured at Bloody Sunday

800

Striking numbers by the end of January

400,000

Sailors involved in the Potemkin Mutiny

Over 700

Manors destroyed by peasants in uprisings against the nobility

3000

Striking numbers by Autumn 1905

2.5 million

Soviets formed in 1905

80

Number of days of First Duma

73

Electoral Law changes eligibility

1 in 6 men eligible to vote

Peasant % in first Duma

38%