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Russian Revolution

By chiara.lestino
  • Period: to

    The Great Spurt

    Rapid industrialisation initiated under Sergei Witte

  • Coronation of Tsar Nicholas and Tsarina Alexandra

    Haunted by the Khodynka Field Tragedy

  • Japanese Attack on Port Arthur sparks Russo-Japanese War

  • Lenin's 'What Is to Be Done?' is published

  • SDs split into Bolshevik and Menshevik factions

  • Dismissal of four Putilov Steelworks workers

    Triggers widespread industrial unrest

  • Bloody Sunday Massacre

  • Mutiny on the Battleship Potemkin

  • October Manifesto

  • Fundamental Laws are passed

  • First Duma opens

  • First Duma dissolved

  • Second Duma opens

  • Second Duma dissolved and new electoral laws are passed

  • Third Duma opens

  • Lena Massacre

    Reignited the anger of Bloody Sunday

  • Germany declares war on Russia

  • Battle of Tannenberg

  • Russian army defeated at Masurian Lakes

  • Progressive Bloc calls for reform of ministers

  • Formation of the Provisional Government

  • Tsar Nicholas appoints himself Commander-in-Chief

  • Tsar dismisses Fourth Duma

  • 4 mont Brusilov Offensive begins

  • International Women's Day marches

  • Petrograd garrison mutiny

  • Petrograd Soviet formed

  • Provisional Committee assumes authority

  • Soviet Order No.1

  • Abdication of the tsar

  • Lenin's Return and his April Theses

  • Kerensky's June Offensive

  • July Days (3rd-6th)

  • Kornilov Affair (19th–30th)

  • Bolshevik Central Committee meets

  • 'Storming' of the Winter Palace

  • Formation of Sovnarkom

    Formation of Sovnarkom

  • Cheka created

  • Formal recognition of State Capitalism as Soviet economic policy

  • Period: to

    War Communism

  • Constituent Assembly Convened and Dissolved

    The SR-majority Constituent Assembly is forcefully dissolved by Red Guards after 1 day

  • German army resumes offensive

    Following the breakdown of talks at Brest-Litovsk, German army continues offensive

  • Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

    After unsuccessful talks at Brest-Litovsk and the continuation of the German offensive, Bolsheviks leaders are pushed to sign the peace treaty

  • Decree on Nationalisation

    Beginning of War Communism

  • Decree on Red Terror

  • Grain requisitioning squads begin prodrazverstka

    Prodrazverstka: a policy and campaign of confiscation of grain and other agricultural products from peasants at nominal fixed prices according to specified quotas

  • 'Soviets without Communists'

    Kronstadt sailors call for new socialist government due to disillusionment

  • Tenth Congress of Communist Party

    8-16 March.
    Lenin introduces NEP