Sailors and soldiers mutiny at Kronstadt

Demonstrators gathered at prisons and government buildings following the October Manifesto, pressing authorities to free political detainees. The source date is 18 October Old Style.

Sergei Witte was appointed chairman of a reorganized Council of Ministers and charged with implementing the constitutional promises while restoring state authority. The source date is 19 October Old...

The funeral of the Bolshevik activist Nikolai Bauman drew a large political procession in Moscow. The source date is 20 October Old Style.

Organized violence against Jewish residents followed the October Manifesto. Police and right-wing monarchist groups were widely implicated in the pogrom. The source date is 20 October Old Style.

The Soviet called workers back to work after the October Manifesto, while continuing to organize around political and workplace demands. The source date is 21 October Old Style.

Socialist Revolutionary activist Anastasia Bitsenko shot General Viktor Sakharov, who had been sent to suppress peasant unrest. The source date is 22 November Old Style.

The Soviet and allied parties urged citizens to withdraw deposits, demand gold payments and refuse certain taxes in an effort to weaken the imperial government financially. The source date is 2...

Police surrounded a Soviet meeting and arrested its deputies, including Leon Trotsky. The arrests deprived the capital’s movement of its main coordinating body. The source date is 3 December Old...

A political general strike developed into an armed uprising. Workers erected barricades and revolutionary fighting groups confronted troops and police. The source date is 7 December Old Style.

Workers in St Petersburg and other centres joined the general strike, but the capital’s movement lacked the coordination it had before the Soviet’s arrest. The source date is 8 December Old Style.