Russian History 1855-1928 Timeline

Leaders

Tsar Alexander II

1855 - 1881

Tsar Alexander III

1881 - 1894

Tsar Nicholas II

1894 - 1917

Lvov

3/1917 - 7/1917

Kerensky

7/1917 - 10/1917

Vladimir Lenin

10/1917 - 1/21/1924

The Dumas

The First Duma

4/1906 - 6/1906

The Second Duma

2/1907 - 6/1907

Third Duma

6/1907 - 1912

The Fourth Duma

1912 - 1917

General

Serfdom abolished

1861

Zemstva

1864 - 1896

The zemstva was established in 1864 under tsar Alexander II.
It was banned in 1896 by tsar Nicholas II.

Alexander II attempted assassination

1866

Urban Dumas established

1870

All classes could join the military

1874

First Marxist group formed

1883

Social Democratic Party splitted

11/1903

The Social Democratic Party splitted into two different parties: the Mensheviks and the Bolsheviks.

Bloody Sunday

1/22/1905

The First Soviet

5/1905

The October Manifesto

10/1905

November Manifesto

11/1905

Lenin travels to Russia

4/1917

Lenin fled to Finland

7/1917

Cheka established

12/1917

Failed Assembly

1/1918

Capital moved to Moscow

3/1918

Romanov framily executed

7/1918

Leniun shot

8/1918

Comintern established

3/1919

Independence delclarations throughout 1920s

1920

Formal establishment of USSR

1922

Stalin General-Secretary

4/3/1922

Treaty of Rapallo

4/16/1922

The Soviet Constitution

1924

Trotsky resigned from Red Army

1925

Trotsky out of Politburo

1926

Trotsky out of the Communist Party

1927

Trotsky out of Russia

1929

Between the revolutions

Father Gapon killed

4/10/1906

Father Gapon was assassinated by Tsarist secret police.

Stolypin Prime Minister

7/1906 - 9/1911

Agrarian reforms by Stolypin

11/1906

Stikes/unrest in 1912

1/1912 - 12/1912

Lena massacre

4/1912

Pravda established

5/1912

Rasputin killed

12/1916

February Revolution

2/1917

Tsar abdicates

3/1917

Kornilov Affairs

8/1917

October revolution

10/1917

Military

Crimean War

10/1853 - 2/1856

Russia lost the war in 1856.

Russo-Japanese War

2/1904 - 9/1905

World War 1

9/1914 - 3/1918

Russian forces withdraw

1915

Tsar takes control of the army