IB HISTORY HL - Timeline of Imperial Russia

1855

Alexander II becomes tsar

1856

Treaty of Paris ends the Crimean War

1861

The emancipation edict

1863

Education reform

1865

Reforms in publication

1874-75

Military reforms

1881

Alexander II assassinated by the 'Peoples will'
Alexander III begins a period of repression

1892

Count Sergei Witte becomes finance minister
The 'Great Spurt' of industrial growth begins

1894

Nicholas II becomes Tsar

1898

Social democratic Party founded

1901

Social Revolutionary Party founded

1904

Outbreak of Russo-Japanese War

1905

Year of revolution following bloody Sunday

1906

Pyotr Stolypin becomes Prime Minister

1911

Stolypin assassinated

1914

Outbreak of the First World War

1917

February: Revolution- the tsar abdicates, and the Provencial Government is established
April - Lenin returns to Russia
August - Kornilov Affair
October - Bolshevik seizure of power; Lenin establishes new government

1918

Outbreak of the Civil War
'War communism' introduced

1921

Civil War ends
Kronstadt Mutiny
'New Economic Policy' replaces War Communism

1922

Creation of the USSR
Lenin becomes seriously ill

1924

Lenin dies, Stalin rises to power

1891-92

Great Famine