Timeline (AQA A-Level History): Revision Notes

Timeline

Year	Month	Event
1917	February	Strike began at Putilov factories in Petrograd
	February	February Revolution
	March	Tsar abdicated
	March	Provisional Government set up
	March	Petrograd Soviet issued Order Number 1
	April	Lenin returned to Russia; April Theses issued
	June	Kerensky Offensive
	July	July Days
	August	Kornilov Revolt
	September	Trotsky became Chairman of the Petrograd Soviet
	September	Bolsheviks gained majorities in Petrograd and Moscow Soviets
	October	Military Revolutionary Committee established
	October	October Revolution
	October	Sovnarkom established
	October	Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic established
	November	Constituent Assembly elections
	November	Decree on workers’ control
	December	Cheka founded
1918–21	—	War Communism
1918	January	Bolsheviks disbanded the Constituent Assembly
	March	Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
	July	Tsar and imperial family murdered
1918–21	—	Russian Civil War
1919	—	Politburo and Orgburo established
1921	—	Kronstadt Rising
	—	Factions banned
1921–22	—	Famine
1921–28	—	New Economic Policy (NEP)
1922	—	Stalin elected General Secretary
	—	Lenin dictated his Testament
1924	—	Lenin died
1926	—	United Opposition formed
1927	—	Fifteenth Party Congress decided on industrialisation
1928–32	—	First Five-Year Plan
1929	—	Mass collectivisation began; ‘elimination of kulaks as a class’
1932–33	—	Famine
1933–37	—	Second Five-Year Plan
1934	—	Kirov assassinated
1935	—	Stakhanovite movement began
1937–38	—	Great Terror at its height
1938	—	Third Five-Year Plan (interrupted in 1941)
1939	—	Nazi–Soviet Pact
	—	USSR occupied part of Poland and the Baltic States
1941–45	—	Great Patriotic War
1946	—	Fourth Five-Year Plan
1947	—	Cominform established
	—	Famine in Ukraine
1948	—	Berlin Blockade
1949	—	Leningrad Affair
	—	Atomic bomb developed by USSR
1951	—	Fifth Five-Year Plan
1952	—	Doctors’ Plot
1953	—	Death of Stalin