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Strike!
120,000 workers strike in St. Petersburg; government warns against any organised marches. -
Bloody Sunday
Troops opened fire, 150,000 people took to the cold and snow covered streets of St Petersburg to protest about their lifestyle. -
Stike continues
The strike movement spreads down to the Caucasus. Grand-Duke Sergei Alexandrovich is killed by an SR assassin as protests grow. -
General Strikes
Railwaymen went on strike which paralyzed the whole russian railway network, witte, new chief minister, advised nicholas II to make concessions. -
St. peterburg arrested
The St. Petersburg Soviet is arrested en masse after Socialist Democrats (SD) hand out weapons. -
Vladivostok
Vladivostok experiences an armed uprising. -
Kadets condemn strikes
The Kadets condemn strikes, land seizures and the Moscow Uprising as they try to secure the new political scene against further. -
Provisional Rules
Provisional Rules guarantee rights of assembly and of association this and the Duma allows political parties to legally exist in Russia; many form. -
Duma
The promised parliament the Duma is dissolved when it produces an anti government majority Fundamental Laws of the Empire published,including the creation of the State Duma and State Council. -
Fundamental Laws
Fundamental Laws of the Empire published, including the creation of the State Duma and State Council -
Duma
Hertsenstein, a Duma Deputy of the Kadet party, is killed by the Union of Russian People -
Duma closed
The first Duma is deemed too radical by the Tsar and is closed. -
Union Russian
Union of Russian Peoples try to murder Witte -
Second Duma
The Second State Duma opens, dominated by the left who cease their boycott. -
lollos
Iollos, a Duma Deputy of the Kadet party, is killed by the Union of Russian People. -
Union Russian V.S Witte
Union of Russian Peoples try to murder Witte again. -
Second Duma deemed
The Second Duma is also deemed too radical and closed; Stolypin alters the Duma voting system in favour of the wealthy and landed in a move branded his coup d'etat. -
Stolypin Prime Minister
Stolypin becomes Prime Minister. -
3rd Duma
November 1: The Third Duma Opens. Mainly Octobrist, Nationalist and Rightist, it generally did as it was told. The failure of the Duma causes people to turn away from liberal or democratic groups in favour of radicals.
