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Russia 1855-1956
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1855
Accession of Tsar Alexander II – the “ Tsar Liberator”
1856 Defeat in the Crimean War
1861 Emancipation of the Serfs
1864 Zemstvo Law and legal reforms
1865 Censorship regulations eased
1866 First assassination attempt
against Alexander II
1874-81 Growth of opposition groups; Narodniks, Land and Liberty,
Peoples Will
1881 Constitutional proposals;
assassination of Alexander II; the ‘Reaction’.
1883 Peasants Land Bank created
[one-third of all landlord estates had been bought by 1904]
1887 Failed attempt to assassinate
Alexander III
1889 Introduction of Land Captains
1891 Famine in 17 of Russia’s 39
provinces
1892-1903 Witte’s ‘Great [economic] Spurt‘
1894 Accession of Nicholas II
1898 Formation of Social Democrats [SD’s]
1901 Formation of Social
Revolutionaries [SR’s]
1903 SD’s split into Bolsheviks and
Mensheviks
1904-5 Russo-Japanese War
1905 Bloody Sunday; 1905 Revolution;
October Manifesto
1906-11 Stolypin’s reforms
1906-15 Four Dumas met
1914-18 First World War
1917 February Revolution; the Dual
Power; the October Revolution
1918 The Constituent Assembly; the
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
1918-21 The Civil War
1918-21 War Communism
1921 The Kronstadt Rising; famine
and economic collapse [c.5 million died of starvation and disease]
1921-27 New Economic Policy
1924 Lenin’s death [struggle for
power 1922-29]
1928-53 Stalin in power
1928-29 Introduction of the first Five Year Plan and of
Collectivisation
1932-34 Famine [c.5 million die of starvation and disease]
1934-40 The Great Terror [reprised after the Second World War]
1941-45 The Great Patriotic War
1946 Censorship tightened
1954-56 Khrushchev’s rise to power [Stalin died 1953]
1956 Denunciation of Stalin by
Khrushchev
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