• October 17: Nicholas II issues the October Manifesto, a liberal scheme proposed by Witte. It grants civil liberties, the need for Duma consent before passing laws and a widening of the Duma electorate to include all Russians; mass celebrations follow; political parties form and rebels return, but acceptance of the Manifesto pushes the liberals and socialists apart. The St. Petersburg soviet prints its first issue of the newsheet Izvestia; left and right groups clash in streetfights.
• October: Lvov joins the Constitutional Democrat (Kadet) party, which includes the more radical zemstov men, nobles and scholars; conservative liberals form the Octobrist Party. These are the people who have led the revolution so far.
• October 18: N. E. Bauman, a Bolshevik activist, is killed during a streetfight triggering a street war between the Tsar supporting right and the revolutionary left.
• October 19: The Council of Ministers is created, a government cabinet under Witte; leading Kadets are offered posts, but refuse.
• October 20: Bauman's funeral is the focus of major demonstrations and violence.
• October 21: The General Strike is ended by the St. Petersburg Soviet.
• October 26-27: The Kronstadt mutiny.
• October 30-31: The Vladivostok Mutiny.
• November 6-12: The Peasants Union holds a conference in Moscow, demanding a constituent assembly, land redistribution and political union between peasants and urban workers.
• November 8: The Union of Russian People is created by Dubrovin. This early fascist group aims to fight against the left and is funded by government officials.
• November 14: The Moscow branch of the Peasants Union is arrested by the government.
• November 16: Telephone/graph workers strike.
• November 24: Tsar introduces 'Provisional Rules', which at once abolish some aspects of censorship, but introduce harsher penalties for those praising 'criminal acts'.
• November 26: Head of the St. Petersburg Soviet, Khrustalev-Nosar, arrested.
• November 27: The St. Petersburg Soviet appeals to the armed forces and elects a triumvirate to replace Nosar; it includes Trotsky.
• December 3: The St. Petersburg Soviet is arrested en masse after Socialist Democrats (SD) hand out weapons.
• December 10-15: The Moscow Uprising, where rebels and militias try to take the city through armed struggle; it fails. No other major rebellions take place, but the Tsar and the right react: the police regime returns and the army sweeps across Russia crushing dissent.
• December 11: Russia's urban population and workers are enfranchised by electoral changes.
• December: Nicholas II and his son given honorary membership of the Union of the Russian People; they accept.
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Citation And Footnotes:
Title: The Russian Revolutions: A Timeline
Author: Robert Wilde
Date: 2004
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