Timeline

1855 - Alexander II becomes Tsar

1861 - Emancipation of the serfs

1881 - Alexander II assassinated. Alexander III begins a period of repression.

1892 - Witte becomes Finance Minister. The 'Great Spurt' of industrial growth begins.

1894 - Nicolas II becomes Tsar.

1898 - Social Democrat Party founded.

1901 - Social Revolutionary Party founded.

1904 - Outbreak of Russo-Japanese War.

1905 - Year of Revolution.

1906 - Stolypin becomes Prime Minister.

1911 - Stolypin assassinated.

1914 - Outbreak of First World War.

1917 - February: Revolution, Tsar abdicates, Provisional Government established.

April: Lenin returnes to Russia; April Theses.

July: July Days.

August: Kornilov Affair.

October: Bolshevik seizure of power; Lenin established new government.

1818 - Outbreak of the Civil War.

'War Communism' introduced.

1921 - Civil War ends.

Kronstadt Mutiny.

'New Economic Policy' replaces War Communism.

1922 - Creation of the USSR. Lenin becomes seriously ill.

1921 - Lenin dies.

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