Events in Nicolas II Reign

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  • Nicolas II 1894-1917
    • 1899- Social Revolutionary Party (SR’s) established
    • 1901-05 Economic slump following world wide depression and failed harvests- leading to Agricultural and industrial unrest
    • 1901- Lenin Publishes What is to be done? Peasant unrest and Comission on Agriculture set up
    • 1903- Main section of the Trans Siberian railway completed. Social Democrats split into Bolsheviks and Mensheviks
    • 1897 Russia adopts the gold standard
    • 1898- Russian Social Democratic workers party established
    • 1903- labour strikes, Anti- Semitic pogroms
    • 1904- Minister of the Interior, Plevhve assassinated by SRs
    • 1904- Russo Japanese war breaks out over Korea
    • 1905- 1905 Revolution and Bloody Sunday
      • October manifesto promising political reform and civil rights
      • 1905- Portsmouth peace treaty with Japan
    • 1906-First state duma, Stolypin begins agricultural reform programme
    • 1907- second duma meets and is dissolved after 4 months  Stolypin alters electoral laws
      • 1907-12 Third Duma
    • 1911- November Stolypin assassinated
    • 1912- Lena Goldfields massacre, industrial unrest . Fourth state duma
    • 1914- August Germany declares war on Russia
      • 26th August - Russia defeated at the war of Tannenberg
    • 1915- 6  September The Tsar assumes control of the armed forces. Progressive bloc formed- political crisis
      • 1916- June - October Brusilov offensive 30th December murder of Rasputin
    • 1917- January February strikes and civil unrest in Petrograd
      • International women’s day march in Petrograd - women’s march turns into workers demonstration
    • 1917- 27th February Troops refuse to fire on demonstrator sand join the revolutionary movement instead
    • 1917- 1 march formation of Petrograd Soviet and First provisional government
      • 1917- 2nd march Nicolas abdicates
        • 3rd of April 1917Lenin returns and formulates his April thesis

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