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1901 |
New illegal neo-Narodnik organisation, Socialist
Revolutionary Party, established |
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1902 |
V. Lenin produces work on party organisation What Is
to Be Done? |
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1903 |
Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party splits into
Bolshevik and Menshevik wings |
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Left-wing liberals set up their illegal organisation,
‘Union of Liberation’ |
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Right-wing liberals set up ‘Union of Zemstvo
Constitutionalists’ |
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1904-05 |
Russo-Japanese War |
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1905-07 |
First Russian Revolution |
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1905 |
9 January: Bloody Sunday |
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May: first Soviet of Workers’ Deputies set up in
Ivanovo-Voznesensk to co-ordinate strike action in the
town |
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October: general strike led by St Petersburg Soviet |
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17 October: Tsar’s October Manifesto grants basic civil
and political rights and elected legislative assembly |
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October: Left-wing liberals set up the Party of
Constitutional Democrats (Kadets) |
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December: right-wing liberals set up their party, ‘Union
of 17 October’ |
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Moscow
workers’ uprising suppressed |
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1906-11 |
Peter Stolypin chairman of Council of Ministers |
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1906 |
April: constitutional experiment begins with elections
to First Duma |
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November: Stolypin introduces land reform by decree
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1911 |
Assassination of Stolypin |
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1912 |
Shooting of striking miners at Lena goldfields in
Eastern Siberia |
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1914 |
July: Russia enters the First World War |
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Russia’s capital renamed Petrograd |
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1915 |
Nicholas II assumes command of the army |
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‘Progressive Bloc’ of liberal and moderate conservative
groupings is formed in Fourth Duma |
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1916 |
Assassination of G. Rasputin |
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1917 |
February Revolution leads to abdication of Nicholas II
and collapse of autocracy. Provisional Government
assumes official power in Russia. Simultaneously,
Petrograd Soviet of Workers’ and Soldiers’ Deputies is
established by socialist intellectuals |
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April: Lenin arrives to Russia from exile and unveils
his plan of proletarian revolution in April Theses |
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June: first All-Russian Congress of Soviets in Petrograd |
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4 July: unsuccessful Bolshevik uprising in Petrograd.
Provisional Government brings charges against Lenin and
other Bolshevik leaders |
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August: Gen. Kornilov launches an unsuccessful military
coup |
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September: Bolsheviks gain majority on Petrograd Soviet |
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25-26 October: Bolshevik forces stage a coup in
Petrograd and arrest ministers of Provisional Government |
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26 October: Second all-Russian Congress of Soviets of
Workers’ and Soldiers’ Deputies approves formation of a
Bolshevik government |
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1918 |
March: Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party
(Bolsheviks) renamed Russian Communist Party |
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July: Nicholas II with other members of royal family
murdered at Ekaterinburg in Urals on Bolshevik orders
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