OCR A-level History Timeline of Events ()
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1891 : Trans-Siberian Railway Increase in Strikes across Russia 4 Feb 1905 July 1905 : All-Russi
Peasant Union
Sergei Witte = Finance Workers = Resentment increased over working conditions as population increased. Assassination of
Minister 1892 – 1903. 1896-97 St Petersburg Textile Strikes = 30,000 spinners + weavers. Tsar’s Uncle, Grand Peasant Uprisings =
State control of rail = 70% 1899 = 100,00 workers involved in strikes. Duke Aleksandrovich Seized land and grai
under state. Towns + Countryside = Destroying grain, assaulting landlords, burning down barns. by SR bomb. refused to pay rent.
TSR = Connected Moscow to ‘The years of the red cockerel’ = Ref to arson flames from peasants. 18 Feb 1905 Army = Put down
Siberia. ‘Stolypin’s Necktie’ = Ref to use of gallows on protesting peasants, by Stolypin. Bulygin = Minister of protests.
Produced 39 mil roubles University Rebellion = Protests over censorship + force of the Okhrana. Interior 1905. 24 July : Bulygin’s Dr
worth of rails. Starts drafting Publishes proposals
By 1891 = 19,000 km of proposals for constitutional reform
tracks created. Consultative
Stimulated industry. Assembly.
Easier domestic trade. 1896 : Khodynka Tragedy Feb 1904 : Russo-Japanese War Starts March 1905
Impacts Zemstvo liberals
Emigration to cities = Estimated 500,000 people Japan and Russia Tensions = Both expanding around 23 Aug : Treaty of
meet in Moscow to
Allowed peasants to move to gathered to celebrate East Asia. Portsmouth
discuss reform.
the West. Nicholas II’s coronation. Port Arthur = Japan attacked Russian naval base in April 1905
Industrial Growth = Russia Huge disorder = Police failed China Nicholas II declared war on Japan. Ends Russo-Japanes
All Russian Union of
slowly increasing in industrial to control crowd. Hoped war would detract from unrest. War, in Japan’s favo
Railway Workers
1389 people were killed. Russia Weak = Still not fully industrialised. Japan gains full
strength. formed.
N2’s Response = Attended a Fighting 6000 miles away from Moscow. control of Korean
Opp = Increase in workers Illegal TUs are
increase in discontent and ball for the French Embassy. Japan Strong = Underestimated by Nicholas II. peninsula.
created all over
opposition.. Suggested he did not care 1904 = Plehve assassinated as had encouraged war National Humiliation
Russia.
about his people. and was staunch autocrat. Furthered Russia’s
Warsaw = People celebrated his death. weakness and the fai
Anti – War Feeling = Increasing in public. of Nicholas II.
Public discontent.
1891-2 : Great Famine 1894 : Nicholas II 1900 : Zubatov TUs 9 Jan 1905 : Bloody Sunday May 1905 : Union of Unions Sept
Vyshnegradsky = Minister Believed he was “wholly Sergei Zubatov = Moscow 3 Jan 1904 = Strike at Putilov 8-9 May = Federation of 2 mil
of Finance. unfit to reign.” Chief of Okhrana 1896 – Iron Works after 4 workers liberal TUs formed. Cr
Excessive grain exports left Autocrat = Obsessed with 1902. were fire. Petitioned for political reform an
peasants starving. “divine right.” Illegal TUs = Used to 100,000 workers striked. and National Assembly. 15
Disease spread. Married Aleksandra = organise strikes. 9 Jan 1905 = Father Gapon 14 June : Potemkin Mutiny
Famine = Over 350,000 German and Protestant, Zubatov TUs = Tsarist organised peaceful march on Protest = Galvanised by Zems
died. with large influence over alternative to provide Winter Palace. mouldy meat ration. Buly
Relief Effect = Left to Nicholas II. ‘official’ hearings for Asking for 8-hour day, min Mutiny = After a sailor was Cons
volunteer groups, not the Russification = Continued complaints. wage and dignified shot by the Commander, the Dem
gov. under Nicholas II, often 1904 = Father Gapon treatment of workers. crew killed 7 Officers. unive
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