GCSE HISTORY - RUSSIA 1894-1945: TSARDOM AND COMMUNISM - (dates)

When was Bloody Sunday?

22nd January 1905

When did Russia first enter WW1?

28th July 1914

When did the Stolypin reforms take place?

1906 to 1917

When were the women's day strikes?

23rd February 1917

When did 250,000 workers strike?

26th February 1917

When did the army mutiny against the Tsar?

27th February 1917

When did the Tsar abdicate?

March 2nd 1917

When did Lenin return from exile in Europe?

16th April 1917

When did the July days take place?

16th to 20th July 1917

When did the Kornilov revolt take place?

27th August to 13th September 1917

When did Bolsheviks take over key areas of Petrograd?

7th November 1917

When did the Bolsheviks storm the winter palace?

8th November 1917

When did Lenin gain control?

8th November 1917

When did the Russian Civil War take place?

7th November 1917 to 25th October 1922

In what year was war communism introduced?

1918

In what year was famine the worst because of war communism?

1921

When did the Kronstadt rebellion take place?

7th to 17th March 1921

When was the New Economic Policy (NEP) introduced?

March 1921

When did Lenin die?

21st January 1924

When was the first Five Year Plan introduced? (When did collectivisation start?)

1928 to 1932

When was Trotsky expelled from the USSR?

1929

In what year did Stalin's cult of personality begin?

1929

When was the second Five Year Plan in place

1933 to 1937

When did the purges start?

1934

When did the third Five Year Plan start?

1938

When did Stalin sign the non aggression pact with Hitler?

26th August 1939

When did Germany invade Russia? (Operation Barbarossa)

22nd June 1941

When did Germany surrender in Russia?

February 1943