AQA A Level History Russia - Revolution
and Dictatorship: KEY DATES complete
with Questions and correct Answers
Bloody Sunday - correct answer-✅1905: Father Gapon led a peaceful protest to the Winter Palace
guards panic and fire on crowd
Tsar blamed
October Manifesto - correct answer-✅October 1905: Tsar Nicholas promises to make the Duma, to
represent the people
Fundamental laws - correct answer-✅1906: Laws made to carry out reforms in October Manifesto
Tsar becomes Commander in Chief of the Russian army - correct answer-✅1915: Goes to the Eastern
Front and leaves Tsarina Alexandra in charge
Tsar blamed for the defeat
Rasputin's murder - correct answer-✅December 1916: carried out by conservative nobility
blamed for hatred of tsarism
shot and drowned
The February Revolution - correct answer-✅(23rd February - 3rd March, 1917) Spontaneous, leaderless
revolution amongst the urban workers
resulted in the formation of the Provisional Government and Petrograd Soviet, and the abdication of the
Tsar.
first failings of the PG - correct answer-✅March 1917: haven't ended the war or fed the Russian people
- people are already upset
April Theses - correct answer-✅April 1917: Lenin returns from exile and arrives in Russia
'Peace, Land, Bread'
'All power to the soviets'
July Days - correct answer-✅July 1917: Riots about reform led by Bolsheviks
Riots easily crushed,
Bolshevik party becomes unpopular, no real leadership in event, Lenin and other Bolsheviks leave Russia
to avoid being arrested
Kornilov Affair - correct answer-✅August 1917: General Kornilov wanted to storm Petrograd and take
charge
failed
Red Guard released in preparation, armed by Kerensky
Bs look good keep weapons
October Revolution - correct answer-✅23rd October 1917: Bolshevik coup d'état, Winter Palace,
organised, quiet, not very violent, made Bs look powerful and popular
New Government after October Revolution - correct answer-✅Sovnarkom + Comintern established
after Oct Rev
Decrees on Peace, Land + some social stuff eg banning churches, women's rights
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk - correct answer-✅Jan 1918: Withdrew Russia from WW1
Favoured Germans, they took a lot of land from Russia eg Baltic states
Removal of Democracy - correct answer-✅April 1918: Lenin held votes, only got 25%
tried to get SRs on board, didn't work out
shut down Constituent Assembly, shot at campaigners on street
War Communism - correct answer-✅June 1918: policy of devoting all economic resources to Civil War
effort
and Dictatorship: KEY DATES complete
with Questions and correct Answers
Bloody Sunday - correct answer-✅1905: Father Gapon led a peaceful protest to the Winter Palace
guards panic and fire on crowd
Tsar blamed
October Manifesto - correct answer-✅October 1905: Tsar Nicholas promises to make the Duma, to
represent the people
Fundamental laws - correct answer-✅1906: Laws made to carry out reforms in October Manifesto
Tsar becomes Commander in Chief of the Russian army - correct answer-✅1915: Goes to the Eastern
Front and leaves Tsarina Alexandra in charge
Tsar blamed for the defeat
Rasputin's murder - correct answer-✅December 1916: carried out by conservative nobility
blamed for hatred of tsarism
shot and drowned
The February Revolution - correct answer-✅(23rd February - 3rd March, 1917) Spontaneous, leaderless
revolution amongst the urban workers
resulted in the formation of the Provisional Government and Petrograd Soviet, and the abdication of the
Tsar.
first failings of the PG - correct answer-✅March 1917: haven't ended the war or fed the Russian people
- people are already upset
April Theses - correct answer-✅April 1917: Lenin returns from exile and arrives in Russia
'Peace, Land, Bread'
'All power to the soviets'
July Days - correct answer-✅July 1917: Riots about reform led by Bolsheviks
Riots easily crushed,
Bolshevik party becomes unpopular, no real leadership in event, Lenin and other Bolsheviks leave Russia
to avoid being arrested
Kornilov Affair - correct answer-✅August 1917: General Kornilov wanted to storm Petrograd and take
charge
failed
Red Guard released in preparation, armed by Kerensky
Bs look good keep weapons
October Revolution - correct answer-✅23rd October 1917: Bolshevik coup d'état, Winter Palace,
organised, quiet, not very violent, made Bs look powerful and popular
New Government after October Revolution - correct answer-✅Sovnarkom + Comintern established
after Oct Rev
Decrees on Peace, Land + some social stuff eg banning churches, women's rights
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk - correct answer-✅Jan 1918: Withdrew Russia from WW1
Favoured Germans, they took a lot of land from Russia eg Baltic states
Removal of Democracy - correct answer-✅April 1918: Lenin held votes, only got 25%
tried to get SRs on board, didn't work out
shut down Constituent Assembly, shot at campaigners on street
War Communism - correct answer-✅June 1918: policy of devoting all economic resources to Civil War
effort
