Russian revolution Radley

January 1904

The Russo-Japanese War began

9 January 1905

Bloody Sunday

March 1905

The Russian army defeated at Mukden, in Manchuria

May 1905

The Union of Unions was formed

May 1905

The Russian navy destroyed by Japanese Navy at Tsushima

June 1905

Crew of the Battleship Potemkin mutinied

August 1905

Treaty of Portsmouth ended Russo-Japanese War

13 October 1905

St Petersburg Soviet formed

17 October 1905

Nicholas II issued the October Manifesto

April 1906

Nicholas II issued the Fundamental Laws

April–July 1906

First Duma

July 1906

Stolypin appointed Prime Minister

February–June 1907

Second Duma

November 1907

Third Duma began (lasted until June 1912)

September 1911

Stolypin assassinated

April 1912

Strikes in the Lena goldfields, Siberia

June 1912

Third Duma dissolved

November 1912

Fourth Duma began

1913

300 years of Romanov rule celebrated throughout Russia

1 August 1914

The First World War began

26–30 August 1914

Battle of Tannenberg

7–14 September 1914

Battle of the Masurian Lakes

August 1915

Nicholas II took personal command of the Russian armies

June–September 1916

Brusilov Offensive

December 1916

Rasputin murdered

18 February 1917

Strike began at the Putilov steel factories in Petrograd

23 February 1917

International Women’s Day; demonstrations for food

26 February 1917

Petrograd Garrison refused to fire on demonstrators/strikers

27 February 1917

Duma formed Provisional Government; Petrograd Soviet formed

28 February 1917

Nicholas II prevented from returning to Petrograd

2 March 1917

Nicholas II abdicated (for himself and his son)

3 April 1917

Lenin returned to Petrograd & issued the April Theses

June 1917

Disastrous Russian offensive launched vs Austro-German armies

July 1917

July Days – unsuccessful Bolshevik uprising vs Prov. Govt

8 July 1917

Kerensky became Prime Minister of the Provisional Government

August–September 1917

Kornilov attempted to overthrow the Provisional Government

September 1917

Bolsheviks won majority in Petrograd Soviet; Trotsky became Chairman

23 October 1917

Kerensky attempted to close down the Bolshevik newspapers

24–25 October 1917

Bolshevik takeover of Petrograd

27 October 1917

Lenin formed the Council of People’s Commissars

October–November 1917

Decrees give land to peasants; factories controlled by workers

January 1918

Constituent Assembly closed down

March 1918

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (peace with Germany)

1918–1921

Civil War: Reds vs Whites

June 1918

Start of policy of War Communism

July 1918

Execution of the Romanov family by Bolsheviks

March 1921

Kronstadt Mutiny

21 March 1921

Start of New Economic Policy

January 1924

Death of Lenin