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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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