The end of Romanov rule 1907-1917 Key dates

1906

fundamental laws reinstated

27 April 1906

Duma met for the first time

March 1906

men over 25 could vote, Kadets win majority in the Duma

July 1906

Vyborg appeal

June 1906

First Duma ends after only 72 days

February 1907

start of second Duma

June 1907

End of second duma

November 1907

start of Third Duma

June 1912

End of third Duma

November 1912

Start of fourth Duma

August 1914

fourth Duma dissolves itself with the outbreak of WWI

1905 - 1907

land grabs and disorder in the countryside

1906

over 1000 killed in Countryside chaos including government officials

1907

over 3000 killed in countryside disorder

1905

interior minister Durnovo sends army units to stop countryside unrest

1906

redemption payments cut

1907

redemption payments abolished

July 1906

Stolypin becomes prime minister

1906 - 1907

over 1000 sentenced to death and more exiled

1907 - 1914

Industry grew by 6% per year yet this was much slower than the US and Germany

1906

Trotsky and leaders of the St Petersburg soviet exiled to siberia by Stolypin

1903 - 1913

Generally good harvests that cannot be fully attributed to Stolypin

1914

only ~20% of peasant households had left the village commune

1906 - 1913

c3.5million peasants emigrated to Siberia to ease land shortages yet 20% returned

1912

Lena Goldfields massacre

1915

munitions crisis

1915

Nicholas II names himself commander in chief

1915

General Polivanov reports there was no strong leadership or plan

1914

Russia was financially stable

1916

wages doubles yet prices quadrupled

1916

Russian railways virtually collapsed

1915

the great retreat

1907

Rasputin personally introduced to the tsar and tsarina

1915 - 1917

Nicholas spends little time in Petrograd allowing Rasputin and Tsarina to exercise greater political influence.

1916

3 different chief ministers because the tsarina promoted favourites

1916

Rasputin assassinated by nobility

1915

Duma wanted to recall to help the war effort

July 1915

Duma reassembled

1915-1916

4 PMs, 3 foreign secretaries, 2 ministers of defence, 6 interior ministers. chaos of changes made by Nicholas, the tsarina or Rasputin’s influence

1915

zemgor established

1917

by this point Nicholas had alienated all groups of Russia including the army

14 February 1917

Rodzianko warns Tsar Nicholas of immanent unrest

18 February 1917

Putilov strikes

23 February 1917

international women’s day

25 February 1917

Major citywide strike paralysing Petrograd

26 February 1917

The tsar, from a military HQ, orders force to be used on the protesters. However all except a few thousand of 150 000 Petrograd garrison troops deserted

27 February 1917

Rodzianko offers hope of the preservation of imperial power yet was dissolved by Nicholas II

27 February 1917

provisional committee established

27 February 1917

Petrograd soviet established

28 February 1917

Nicholas attempts to return to Petrograd to calm the people but mutinous troops divert the train where he is advised by generals, his advisor, and Duma members to abdicate

2 March 1917

Nicholas II signs the abdication order on behalf of himself and his son. His brother also refuses the tsardom

3 March 1917

Tsar’s abdication made public

1907

voting limited to the propertied classes