The Moscow uprising is defeated

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.