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# Russian Revolution

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## The Russian Revolution

  Perhaps the most significant event of the 20th century.

Quick Chronology to 1917

1855 Start of reign of [Alexander II]?

1861 Emancipation of the serfs

1866-74 [The White Terror]?

1881 Alexander II assassinated. [Alexander III]?

1883 First Russian marxist group formed

1894 Start of reign of [Nicholas II]?

1898 First Congress of [Russian Social Democratic Labour Party]? (RSDLP)

1900 Foundation of [Socialist Revolutionary Party]? (SR)

1903 Second Congress of Russian Social Democratic Labour Party. Split

1904-5 [Russo-Japanese War]?

1905 Revolution.

  Jan - Bloody Sunday in St Petersburg.
  June - Potemkin?
  Oct - general strike, St Petersburg Soviet formed
    imperial agreement on elections to the State Duma? - October Manifesto

1906 First State Duma. Prime Minister - [Petr Stolypin]?. Agrarian reforms begin

1907 Second State Duma, Feb - June

1907 Third State Duma, until 1912

1911 Stolypin assassinated

1912 Fourth State Duma, until 1917. Bolshevik? - Menshevik? split final

1914 Germany declares war on Russia

1915 Serious defeats, Nicholas II declares himself CinC?. [Progressive Bloc]? formed

1916 [Gregory Rasputin]? killed

More detailed quick chronology of 1917

Jan

  Strikes and unrest in Petrograd?

Feb

  The February Revolution

  26th 50 demonstrators killed in Znamenskaia Square
  27th Troops refuse to fire on demonstrators, desertions. Prison, court and
    Okhrana? buidings set on fire. Garrison joins revolutionaries.
    Petrograd Soviet formed.

March

  1st Order No.1 of the Petrograd Soviet
  2nd Nicholas II abdicates. Provisional Goverment formed, Prince Lvov PM

April

  3rd Return of Lenin to Russia. April Theses
  20th Miliukov's note published. Provisional Government falls

May

  5th New Provisional Government formed. Kerensky? minister of war and navy

June

  3rd First All-Russian Congress of Soviets in Petrograd. Closed on 24th
  16th Kerensky orders offensive against Austro-Hungarian forces. Initial success

July

  2nd Russian offensive ends. Trotsky? joins Bolsheviks
  4th Anti-government demonstrations in Petrograd
  6th German and Austro-Hungarian counter-attack. Russians retreat in panic, sacking
    the town of Tarnopol. Arrest of Bolshevik leaders ordered
  7th Lvov resigns. Kerensky is new PM
  22nd Trotsky and Lunacharskii arrested

Aug.

  26th Second coalition government ends
  27th General Lavr Kornilov? failed coup. Kornilov arrested and imprisoned

Sept.

  1st Russia declared a republic
  4th Trotsky and others freed. Trotsky becomes head of Petrograd Soviet
  25th Third coalition government formed

Oct.

  10th Bolshevik Central Committee meeting approves armed uprising
  11th Congress of Soviets of the Northern Region, until 13th
  20th First meeting of the Military Revolutionary Committee of Petrograd
  25th MRC directs armed workers and soldiers to capture key buidings in Petrograd.
    Winter Palace attacked at 9.40pm. Kerensky flees Petrograd
  26th Second Congress of Soviets. Mensheviks and right SR delegates walk-out in
    protest at coup. Decrees on peace and land reform. Soviet government declared -
    the Council of People's Commissars; Bolshevik dominated with Lenin as chairman

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