CAMBRIDGE AS HISTORY: THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION MODULE. RUSSIA IN 1900. Timeline of the events, Russia in 1900, peasants and middle class. Tsar Nicholas II.

1. CAMBRIDGEAS
HISTORYREVISION
THERUSSIAN
REVOLUTION
18941917
5.1 RUSSIAIN1900

2. TIMELINE OF THE EVENTS 1894-1906
November 1894 – Nicholas II becomes the tsar
February 1904 – Russo-Japanese war begins
January 1905 – Start of the 1905 revolution
October 1905 - October Manifesto issued
November 1905 – Sergei Witte becomes prime-minister
April 1906 – New constitution introduced and first duma convened

3. TIMELINE OF THE EVENTS 1906-1918
July 1906 – Pyotr Stolypin becomes prime minister
September 1911 – Stolypin assassinated
July 1914 – First world war begins
March 1917 – Nicholas II abdicates and provisional government established
October 1917 – October Revolution led by Lenin
July 1918 – Nicholas II and family murdered by bolsheviks

4. RUSSIA IN 1900 – PEASANTS / MIDDLE CLASS
Populated by many different racial groups: Russians, Armenians, Balts,
Georgians, Slavs, Poles, Ukrainians; held together only by loyalty to the
tsar.
The Romanov dynasty: ruled Russia for almost 300 years.
Peasants: most people in Russia were peasants; emancipated in 1861,
they remained poor and burdened by heavy taxes; worked in
communes (mirs), which varied greatly depending on area, quality of
soil, etc.; frequent famines; widespread poverty.
Middle class: small; largely landowners who had no interest in
improving farming.

6. RUSSIA IN 1900 – TSAR NICHOLAS II
Nicholas II: became tsar in 1894; committed to autocracy; not
interested in modernisation or reform; increasingly isolated from the
people of Russia.