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| 1905 | Nicholas II |  |
| 22nd Jan Winter Palace Sparks off the 1905 revolution |
| 22nd Jan Winter Palace The Union of Liberation organizes a procession to the Winter Palace |
| 22nd Jan Winter Palace The Union of Liberation presents a petition to the Tsar |
| 22nd Jan Winter Palace Troops kill 100 workers & wound 300 |
| 1905 | Sviatopolk-Mirskii | |
| 18th Jan St Petersburg Allows the demonstration but forbids demonstrators to go near the Winter Palace |
| 1905 | Witte | |
| St Petersburg Called up by the Tsar to solve the industrial unrest following Bloody Sunday |
| 1917 | Balk, Aleksandr Pavlovich | |
| 23rd Feb Petrograd Balk observes that the Cossacks are reluctant to confront the crowds |
| 23rd Feb Petrograd Demonstrations pass off peacefully |
| 1917 | Beliaev, Mikhail Alekseevich | |
| 22nd Feb Moscow The Tsarleaves Moscow for Mogliev, the security of Moscow is entrusted to Beliaev |
| 1917 | Ivanov, Nikolai Iudovich | |
| 27th Feb Petrograd Nicholas II orders General Ivanov to suppress the disorder |
| 1st Mar Petrograd General Ivanov is ordered to abort his mission to suppress rebellion in Petrograd |
| 1917 | Khabalov, Sergei Semenovich | |
| 25th Feb Petrograd Ordered by Nicholas II to use force on the Petrograd demonstrators |
| 26th Feb Petrograd Petrograd is occupied by military units in combat gear & a curfew imposed |
| 27th Feb Petrograd Khabalov has only 2,000 loyal troops as Petrograd is taken over by peasant soldiers |
| 1917 | Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov | |
| 26th Feb Petrograd The Volynskii Regiment fires on the crowd killing 40 |
| 27th Feb Petrograd The Mensheviks call for elections to the Petrograd Soviet |
| 21st April Moscow 1st Bolshevik demonstrations in Petrograd & Moscow |
| 1917 | Lvov | |
| 26th April The Provisional Government concedes that it cannot maintain order |
| 1917 | Nicholas II | |
| 22nd Feb Mogliev Leaves Moscow for Mogliev, the security of Moscow is entrusted to Beliaev |
| 23rd Feb Petrograd 78,000 to 128,000 go on strike protesting about food shortages |
| 23rd Feb Petrograd International Women's Day demonstrations |
| 24th Feb Petrograd Between 200,000 & 300,000 workers fill the streets |
| 25th Feb Petrograd Nicholas orders that the demonstrations be suppressed by force |
| 25th Feb Petrograd Orders the suppression of demonstrations by the use of force |
| 26th Feb Petrograd Petrograd is occupied by military units in combat gear, a curfew is declared |
| 26th Feb River Neva The bridges of the River Neva are raised |
| 26th Feb Petrograd The Pavlovski regiment disobeys orders to fire on civilians |
| 26th Feb Petrograd The Pavlovski Regiment mutinies in protest when the crowd in Petrograd is fired upon |
| 26th Feb Znamenski Sqr The Volynskii Guard Regiment open fire & kill 40, order is restored |
| 26th Feb Petrograd The Volynskii Regiment fires on the crowd killing 40 |
| 27th Feb Petrograd Government buildings are burnt, General Ivanov is ordered to quell the disorders |
| 27th Feb Petrograd Most of Petrgrad is in the hands of mutinous regiments |
| 27th Feb Petrograd Most of Petrograd is in the hands of a mutinous garrison |
| 27th Feb Petrograd Nicholas II orders General Ivanov to suppress the disorder |
| 27th Feb Petrograd The Pavlovski Regiment votes to disobey orders to fire on civilians |
| 28th Feb Moscow Disturbances spread to Moscow |
| 1st Mar Petrograd General Ivanov is ordered to abort his mission to suppress the rebellion in Petrograd |
| 1917 | Trotsky, Leon | |
| 24th Feb Petrograd Calls for an end to the war & for revolution |
| 24th Feb Petrograd Calls for the re-unification of the Bolsheviks & Mensheviks |
| 1926 | Trotsky, Leon | |
| Sep Moscow Appeals to the rank & file & addresses a demonstration staged at an aircraft factory |
| 1927 | Trotsky, Leon | |
| 7th Nov Leningrad Stages street demonstrations on the 10th anniversarry of the October Revolution |
| 1953 | Malenkov, Georgi Maksimilanovich | |
| June Pilsen Demonstrations breakout in Pilsen |
| 16th June Berlin Demonstrators march on the East German government |
| 17th June Russia sends in troops & tanks to quell demonstrations in east German cities |
| 1971 | Brezhnev, Leonoid Ilych | |
| 10th Mar Moscow Jews demanding emigration occupy offices of the Supreme Soviet |
| 1986 | Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich | |
| 9th April Tbilisi Disorders in Tbilisi, 20 demonstrators are killed by Soviet troops |
| Dec Alma Disorders in Alma |
| 1988 | Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich | |
| Feb Yerevan About a million Armenians demonstrate for Armenian reunification |
| Mar Sumgait Crowds of Azeris rampage through the city of Sumgait, at least 32 Armenians are killed |
| 1989 | Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich | |
| Feb Nagorno Disorders in in Nagorno-Karabakh, ethnic conflicts |
| Dec Moscow The Czech government resigns in the wake of mass demonstrations |
| 1991 | Yeltsin, Boris Nikolayevich | |
| 28th Mar Moscow Tens of thousands of supporters of Yeltsin march in Moscow in defiance of President Gorbachev's ban on rallies |
