Events
Alexander III diedKhodynka TragedyBloody SundayAlexander II assassinationEmancipation of the SerfsCommunist Manifesto publishedSocial Democrats formedThe People's Will formedSocialist Revolutionaries formedSocialist Revolutionaries dissolved into radical groupsPlehve's assassination, Prince Mirskii new Minister for the InteriorDecree passed rejecting parliamentary body and constitution4 Putilov steel factory workers dismissed → mass strikesAssembly of Russian Factory Workers established by Father GaponTsar's cousin/brother-in-law assassinated → Tsar issued statementOctober ManifestoFundamental LawsNational rail strikeInstitutions of higher learning closedSt. Petersburg Soviet dissolvedSecond National Congress of ZemstvosKadets formedOctobrists formedStolypin new Minister of the InteriorImperial Manifesto for electoral reformStolypin shotRasputin Alexandra letters leakedLenin publishes 'What is to be Done?'SDs splitRasputin cured Alexei for the first timeLena Goldfields MassacreBattle of TannenbergTsar appoints himself Supreme Commander in ChiefRasputin assassinatedAll-Russian Union of Zemstva formedCentral War Industries Committee formedProgressive Bloc formedDuma suspended and deputies allied with Progressive Bloc dismissedFull mobilisation of armyGermany declared war on RussiaWorkers demonstrated on anniversary of Bloody Sunday (12 years)Putilov Steel Factory closedBread rationingInternational Women's Day marchPetrograd garrison mutiny, ministers fleeDuma Provisional Committee formedPetrograd Soviet reformedSoviet Order No. 1Tsar Nicholas abdicates, Alexei abdicatesGrand Duke Mikhail abdicatesProvisional Government ManifestoLenin returns, gives speechLenin's April Theses released (written)Treaty of Portsmouth signedSt. Petersburg Soviet formedVyborg ManifestoNicholas II coronationNational Rail StrikeLenin returnsAgrarian reform lawLenin flees to SwitzerlandTsar orders military to fire on protestersTsar orders Duma to be dissolved - ignoredMinisterial Collapse1st Infantry Reserve called for overthrow of governmentRiots in PetrogradMutinous soldiers joined demonstratorsBolsheviks gain majority in the Soviet, Trotsky elected chairmanLenin returnsKornilov replaces Brusilov as CIC of armyLenin flees to Finland, Trotsky arrestedVodka MonopolyFather Gapon meets with senior ministersRasputin knew that Alexei wouldn't diePeriods
Russo-Japanese WarCrimean WarFamineSergei Witte as finance ministerThe Great SpurtFirst National Zemstvo ConferenceFirst DumaThe General StrikeSecond DumaStolypin PM until assassinationThird DumaFourth Duma - end date debatedSecond Congress of the SDs - formal factions establishedProtests at Lena GoldfieldsWorkers strike at Lena Goldfields"The Anniversary of the Lena Massacre" written by StalinBattle of Masurian LakesTsarina's rule + Ministerial LeapfrogBrusilov OffensiveBattle of TsushimaProtestsJune OffensiveJuly DaysFood pogroms in Petrograd and MoscowMutiny on the Battleship PotemkinSevastopol uprisingBattle of MukdenRussia in WW1Kerensky is PMBolshevik's Seventh All-Russian Conference - adopts April Theses as programFirst All Russian Congress of SovietsKornilov AffairOctober RevolutionEconomic slump
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