Modern History ATAR Y12: Stats, Quotes, and Dates

Russo-Japanese War

Feb 1904-1905

The Treaty of Portsmouth

September 1905

Bloody Sunday

9th January 1905

How many people marched in Bloody Sunday?

100,000 people

How many people died in Bloody Sunday?

Up to 200 people were killed by Cossack troops

The October Manifesto

October 1905

The Fundamental Laws

Issued only 6 months after the October Manifesto in April of 1906

The first Duma was dissolved only __ months after first meeting, because…

2 months; because they were unhappy with the Fundamental Laws, being made up of Mensheviks and SRs.

How the Duma elections were rigged

It would take only 230 votes from a landowner to get someone elected into the Duma, however it would take 60,000 peasant votes and 125,000 proletariat votes.

Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

June of 1914

Russia would declare war on Germany and Austria on…

1st of August 1914

When did the Tsar declare himself Commander-In-Chief?

September of 1915

The ‘ministerial leapfrogging’ in government: statistics

Internal Affairs: 5
Prime Minister: 4
Agriculture: 4
Foreign Affairs: 3
War: 3
Transport: 3

The Russian army had ___ soldiers, but only ___ rifles to give them.

5 million, 4.6 million

February Revolution: Dates

23rd February - 3rd March

The Tsar’s abdication

2nd of March 1917

Order No. 1

March 1st, 1917

The April Theses

April 7th 1917

The Summer Offensive

June-July 1917

When did anarchy in the countryside begin?

May 1917

During the Summer of 1917, ___ instances of land seizure occurred.

240

The Provisional Government aimed to incentivise selling of grain by … which didn’t work because …

…increasing the amount of money they purchase grain for by 100% … the peasants had nothing to use this money for due to a lack of consumer goods.

The July Days - date and stat

Trotsky speech on July 2nd, 500,000 people violently demonstrated against the PG

The Kornilov Affair

Late August

October Revolution

23rd to 25th October 1917

___ was Chairman of the Petrograd Soviet, and in ___ ___% of the seats belonged to the Bolsheviks, ___% in the Moscow Soviet, as well as holding a majority in ___ other Soviets in large industrial cities.

Trotsky, November 1917, 90%, 60%, 80

In the elections for the Constituent Assembly, SR’s got ___%. The Bolsheviks got ___% of the vote.

38%, 23%

In the first ___ months of Bolshevik rule, Sovnarkom issued ___ decrees.

6 months, 116

Peace Decree and Land Decree

25th of October

The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was signed on…

…March 3rd, 1918

7 countries / states lost to the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

• Ukraine

• Poland

• Finland

• Georgia

• Lithuania

• Latvia

• Estonia

Russia lost ___ of their iron and coal reserves and ___ of their population to the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, as well as over a ___ square miles of land

three quarters, a third, a million

The Tsar’s family was executed on…

17th of July 1918

The Civil War: Dates

November 1917 to October 1922

By ___ there were ___ men in the Red Army, however by ___ there had also been ___ deserters.

1920, 5 million, 1921, 4 million

When was War Communism?

1918-1921

As early as ___, bread rationing had reached an all-time low of ___ per day.

1918, 50 grams

The 1921 famine claimed between ___ and ___ lives.

5 and 6 million

Less than ___ of food came from rationing - the rest came from ___.

A third, the black market

Official records put the death count at the hands of the Cheka at ___, with modern estimates believing it to be closer to ___.

13,000, 500,000.

Lenin’s orders to quell anarchy in the countryside

He ordered ‘no fewer than a hundred kulaks, bloodsuckers, and rich-bags to be hung in full sight of the people’.

Kronstadt Revolt: Date

1st to 18th March 1921

The 10th Party Congress: Date

8th to 16th of March 1921

In Petrograd the death rate had increased ___ during the age of ___.

Fourfold, War Communism

In ___, industrial output was ___% of its ___ level.

1921, 16%, 1912

Between ___ and ___, grain harvests had increased by over ___%.

1920, 1926, 100%

By ___, ___% of industry was under the operation of the vesenkha.

1919, 80%

When was Nomenklatura established?

1923

Lenin’s Death + Funeral (Date)

January 1924

____ people lined up to view Lenin’s body lying in rest.

3.5 million

When was Lenin’s Last Will and Testament

Scribed in 1923

___ people voted in favour of releasing the Last Will and Testament, whereas ___ people voted against releasing it.

10, 44

The First Five Year Plan: Date

October 1928 to the end of 1932

During the first Five Year Plan, coal, steel, and pig iron all increased by ___ times.

1.8x

The Second Five Year Plan: Date

1932 - 1937

During the Second Five Year Plan, ___ production ___ and ___ production increased by ___ times.

coal, doubled, pig iron, 2.5 times

The Third Five Year Plan - Planned and Actual Dates

Planned: 1938 - 1943

Actual: 1938 - June of 1941

In Germany, only ___ of all German workers worked in a factory with over a thousand men in employment. In Russia, nearly a ___ of workers worked in factories of this size.

8%, quarter

The Great Dnieper Dam increased Russian electrical output ___.

Fivefold

In ___, the Gulag population totalled ___ inmates, increasing rapidly during ___.

1936, 5 million, the Terror

In 1930, the average worker in the coal industry turned over ___ jobs per year

3

Stakhanovite dug out ___ times his quota.

14

In mid-1929, only __% of peasants worked on collective farms. Stalin aimed to collectivise __% of grain-producing areas by the end of 1930.

5%, 25%

By ___, __% of peasant households had been collectivised

1936, 90%

Produce levels remained ___ pre-collectivisation numbers until ___.

Below, 1935

Over the course of the ____, state procurement of grain more than ___.

First Five Year Plan, doubled

Robert Conquest theorised that ___ people died as a result of the Holodomor

7 million

Prior to Stalin, party membership never rose above __% of the total Russian population.

5%

The Shakty Trial: in ___, ___ engineers were accused with conspirring to sabotage the economy. __ of them were shot and __ sent to labour camps.

1928, 53, 5, 44

__% of the party was purged throughout 1930.

20%

The Chitska

1928-33

The 17th Party Congress: Year

1934

Kirov’s Murder: Full Date

1st of December 1934

The Terror: Dates

September 1936 to November 1938

The Three Major Show Trials: Dates and Victims

1936: Zinoviev and Kamenev
1937: Pyatakov and Radek
1938: Rykov, Bukharin, and Yagoda

Date when Yezhov replaced Yagoda

September of 1936

NKVD Order 00447 Date

July 1937

Approximately ___ people were arrested as a result of Order 00447, with initial quotas being only ___ people.

800,000, 250,000

• __% of Central Committee members elected in the 17th Party Congress were shot due to their …

• __ generals, who were all extremely experienced heroes of the Civil War, were shot

• Robert Conquest estimates that between __ and __ million people were executed

70% … allegiance to Kirov

8

1-1.5

__% of divorces were initiated by men, and only __% were mutual.

70%, 7%

Abortion rates rose greatly and birth rates were dropping. Women were also often pressured into abortions by their partners. In 1934, there were __births per ____people, and __ abortions per ____.

16, thousand, 42, thousand

In ___ the cost of funding nationwide creches, kitchens, and kindegartens were calculated and they totalled ____.

1922, more than the entire national budget

The Family Code of ___

1936

Failures of the Great Retreat

• The divorce / marriage ratio was not much better than in 1934

• Birth rate only slightly increased

• Household desertion by fathers remained a huge issue

The Liquidation of Illiteracy - date

1919

The illiteracy rate in ___ was nearly __%.

1919, 65%

Education was not a valid vehicle for spreading Communist values because only __% of teachers were Communist

5%

The Decree on the Separation of Church and State - date

January 1918

By the end of the ___, __% of village Churches had closed

1930s, 80%

The Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact: Year

1939

Germany had a massive invading force of ___ people, which was…

3 million, the largest to that point

By ___, German forces had captured an area …

mid-1941, twice the size of Germany.

The siege of Leningrad: dates

Late 1941 to early 1944 - nearly 900 days

Fall of Kiev - Date

Late / September 1941

The successful Soviet counter-attack was during ___. The Soviet forces were able to force back Axis forces as far as ___ km in some cases.

December, 300 km

Battle of Stalingrad: Date

July 1942 - February 1943 / mid-1942 to early 1943

Order 227 - date

Issued in July 1942

After the Battle of Stalingrad, ___ Germans were killed and ___ taken prisoner.

200,000, 90,000.

Approximately ___ factories were relocated to the east of the Urals by the end of 1941, and ___ new enterprises were developed.

1,500, 3,500

A ___ of trucks were from foreign countries.

Third