1815
1830-1
1854- 6
1855- 81 1860 1861-76 1862 1863
1863 1863-4
1864
1865 1867 1865-9 1869
1871
1872
1875
1875-7
1877-8
1878
1881
1881
1881-94
Congress of Vienna, Russia gains Kingdom of Poland
“November Uprising” of Poles against Russian rule
Crimean War
Reign of Alexander II
State Bank founded
The Great Reforms
Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
Chernyshevsky, What Is to Be Done?
University statute reforms Russian higher education “January Uprising” of Poles against Russian rule Dostoevsky, Notesfrom the Underground, Demons General Michael Cherniaev takes Tashkent Russia sells Alaska to USA Tolstoy, War and Peace N. Danilevsky, Russia and Europe Vereshchagin, “The Apotheosis of War”
Special higher education courses for women set up in Moscow
Uniates in Russian Empire converted to Orthodoxy Tolstoy, Anna Karenina Russo-Turkish War Congress of Berlin Assassination of Alexander II Attacks on Jews (“pogroms”) in Southwest (Ukrainian) provinces Reign of Alexander III
State Peasant Land Bank established Repin, “They Did Not Expect Him”
1883
1884
1885
1891
1892 1894
1894-1917
1897
1899
1901
1903
1903
1904
1904-5
1905 1905 1905
1905 - 7 1906-9 1906-11
1906- 17
1907
1907- 14
1908
1908- 11
1909 1910-14 1911
1912-13
1914-18
1916
1917 February 1917 February-
October 1917 July 1917 October
State Noble Land Bank established Widespread Famine Levitan, “The Vladimirka”
Franco-Russian military alliance Reign of Nicholas II Russia adopts gold standard First Hague Convention called by Nicholas II Lev Tolstoy excommunicated from the Orthodox Church
Prohibition of printing Lithuanian in Latin letters dropped
Kishinev Pogrom
Ivan Pavlov receives Nobel prize for Physiology-Medicine Russo-Japanese War
October Manifesto promises political reform Lenin, “Socialism and Religion”
Periodical publications in Yiddish and Ukrainian allowed
Revolution throughout the Russian Empire “ Pig War ” between Serbia and Austria Peter Stolypin Prime Minister Duma period
Anglo-Russian Entente signed Stolypin agrarian reform Austria annexes Bosnia-Herzegovina Anatoly Lunacharsky, Religion and Science Vekhi (“Signposts”)
Stolypin Agrarian Reform
Marie Curie-Skiodowska is first person to receive a second Nobel prize (in chemistry)
Balkan Wars World War I
Anti-Russian uprising in Turkestan Tsar forced to abdicate by liberal revolution “Provisional Government”
Universal suffrage granted to all Russian citizens Bolshevik Revolution
Land Decree confiscates church and noble land Declaration of the Rights of the Peoples of Russia Lenin, State and Revolution.
1917 October 26
1917 November
1918
1918 February 1918 February
1918 March 1918-20
1919
1920
Ca. 1920 to ca. 1933
1921 February-March
1921 March 1921-8
1922 April 1922 May
1922 December
1923
1924 March
1924
1925 1925 1927
1927
1928
1929
1928 October
1929 1929 - 31 1930s 1932 - 3
1933-4
1934
Soviet Russia adopts Gregorian (western) calendar Patriarch Tikhon pronounces anathema on Soviet regime
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk Civil War / War Communism
Paris Peace conference creates new map of east-central Europe Comintern created in Moscow Soviet authorities set up “Department of Agitation and Propaganda” (Agitprop)
Policy of korenizatsiia Kronstadt Rebellion
Tenth Party Congress New Economic Policy (NEP)
Treaty of Rapallo Arrest of Patriarch Tikhon Formation of USSR
The Little Red Imps shows in Soviet cinemas Death of Lenin Gladkov, Cement Eisenstein, Battleship Potemkin “ League of the Militant Godless” founded 28 percent of students in higher education are female Metropolitan Sergii issues conciliatory “Declaration of Loyalty”
Ilf and Petrov, The Twelve Chairs Trotsky expelled from USSR First Five-Year Plan begins
Teaching of atheism in schools made compulsary Collectivization of Agriculture Crash Industrialization throughout USSR “Terror Famine” in Ukraine, southern Russia, Kazakhstan
Recriminalization of (male) homosexual acts Zhdanov announces new artistic method, “Socialist Realism”
Film version of Chapaev opens in Leningrad
Creation of Jewish Autonomous Region of Birobidzhan
1934
1935
1936 1936-9
1937
1939 summer 1939 August 1939 September
1939 November-March 1940
1939-40
1939- 45
1940 summer
1940- 1
1941 June 21-22
1941
1941- 2
1943 April
1943 November-December
1944
1944-7
1945 February 1945 May 9
USSR embraces “popular front” against fascism Abortion outlawed
USSR supports Republican forces in Spanish Civil War Mukhina, The Worker and the Collective Farmer Battle of Khalkin Gol, Soviet victory over Japan Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact World War II begins
Soviet war against Finland (“Winter War”)
Mass Arrests and deportation of Poles from former eastern Poland
Mass murder of Jews (Holocaust, Shoah)
Baltic States absorbed into USSR Mass arrests and deportations in Baltic republics Nazi Germany invades USSR (“Operation Barbarossa” )
Deportation of Volga Germans to central Asia Evacuation of industrial plant from western regions of USSR to the east
Nazi troops discover mass graves of Polish officers at Katyn
Teheran Conference
Deportations of Crimean Tatars, Chechens, Ingush, and others
Exchange of population (esp. Poles and Ukrainians)
Yalta Conference
World War II ends for USSR
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