Russian Revolution in Dates.

Russian Revolution in Dates 905 Jan Bloody Sunday - Tsarist troops open fire on a peaceful demonstration of workers in St Petersburg. 905 October General Strike sweeps Russia which ends when the Tsar promises a constitution. 905 December In response to the suppression of the St Petersburg Soviet the Moscow Soviet organises a disastrous insurrection that the government suppresses after five days 906 The promised parliament, the Duma, is dissolved when it produces an anti government majority even though elected on a narrow franchise. 911-1914 A new wave of workers unrest ends with the outbreak of the First World War 917 Feb After several days of demonstrations in Petrograd (formally St Petersburg) the government orders troops to open fire. The next day these troops mutiny. The Tsar abdicates when he hears that Moscow too has joined the Revolution. An agreement is reached between the Petrograd Soviet and the Provisional Government headed by Lvov. 917 March 12th Abolition of the death Penalty 917 April 18th Milyukov note. Milyukov tells allies that war aims unchanged. 917 April 20 - 21 The April Days. Opposition to the Foreign Minister Milyukov boils over due to his refusal to renounce annexations. 917 May Milyukov resigns. Members of the Mensheviks and the Socialist Revolutionaries join the government. 917 June 3 First All-Russia Congress of Workers and

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To what extent did Britain benefit from her Empire in the Eighteenth century?

To what extent did Britain benefit from her empire in the eighteenth century? ________________ The empire was an all-embracing force in the eighteenth century and the tributaries of its effects formed a strong river of influence on all aspects life in Britain. Empire shaped and became an essential part of the identity of Britain economically, politically and culturally. Indeed, it is impossible to split Britain from her empire and their dynamic encounter and exchange. As one nineteenth-century historian wrote in 1883, “The history of England is not in England, but in America and Asia.”[1] With hindsight and taking the century as a whole, it is easy to map the impact of empire and evaluate its effects in developing all aspects of British life. The historian can see the growth and changes commercially, militarily and culturally and the watersheds for religion and national identity from which it is easy to assess whether these were benefits accordingly. However, Britain’s climb to commercial, naval and imperial hegemony was unplanned, fortuitous, contingent and at times chaotic. For the generations who lived through it, it must have been a roller coaster experience, from the highs of victory after the Seven Years’ War in 1763 to the defeat at Yorktown in 1781, and we must share in these contrasting emotions to fully appreciate the impact, especially when assessing

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