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| 1902 | Gapon, George |  |
| 7th Jan St Petersburg Organizes a major industrial strike |
| 1903 | Plehve, Vyacheslav Konstantinovich | |
| Odessa Orders the police suppression of the strike in Odessa |
| 1904 | Gapon, George | |
| St Petersburg 110,000 workers go on strike |
| St Petersburg Calls a strike after 4 Assembly of Russian Workers members of the Putilov works sacked |
| 1904 | Nicholas II | |
| St Petersburg 110,000 workers go on strike |
| 1905 | Fullon, Ivor | |
| 7th Jan St Petersburg Appeals to workers to stay away from the demonstrations threatening to use force |
| 1905 | Gapon, George | |
| 6th Jan St Petersburg Schedules a demonstration followed by a petition to be handed to the Tsar on 9th Jan |
| 7th Jan St Petersburg 7-8 January, leads an industrial strike in St Petersburg |
| 8th Jan St Petersburg Informs the Tsar there of a peaceful demonstration the following day with a petition |
| 9th Jan St Petersburg 200 are killed by Cossacks |
| 9th Jan St Petersburg Leads a peaceful demonstration to hand a petition to the Tsar |
| 22nd Jan St Petersburg Asks the Tsar to end the war with Japan |
| 22nd Jan St Petersburg Gapon asks the Tsar to reduce the working day to 8 hrs & improve conditions & wages |
| 22nd Jan St Petersburg Meets the Tsar to hand over a petition signed by 150,000 |
| 1905 | Nicholas II | |
| Lodz Russian Poland is put under a state of siege |
| Lodz Socialist revolutionaries seek to overthrow the Tsar |
| Jan Odessa Strikers are joined by the crew of the Potemkin, 2,000 demonstratos are killed |
| 7th Jan St Petersburg 82,000 workers go out on strike |
| 7th Jan St Petersburg Gapon asks the Tsar to reduce the working day to 8 hrs & improve conditions & wages |
| 7th Jan St Petersburg More than 80,000 workers go on strike in St Petersburg |
| 8th Jan St Petersburg 120,000 workers go out on strike |
| 8th Jan St Petersburg Troops open fire & 200 are killed & 800 injured |
| 10th Jan St Petersburg The government appeals in vain for the workers to return to work |
| 12th Jan Warsaw Strikers in Warsaw loot & burn shops, 93 are killed by Russian troops |
| 13th Jan Riga During a strike in Riga trops charge demonstrators & 70 are killed |
| 14th Jan Warsaw 93 are killed during strikes in Warsaw |
| 6th May Tsarkoe Selo Prince Troubetskoi visits the Tsar saying revolution is underway |
| June Odessa 2,000 are killed during unrest & the Potemkin mutiny |
| Oct Railworkers go on strike & paralyze the whole Russian rail network |
| 1905 | Troubetskoi | |
| 6th May Tsarkoe Selo Prince Troubetskoi visits the Tsar saying revolution is underway |
| 1905 | Witte | |
| June The Potemkin Mutiny is followed by strikes all over Russia |
| Oct Railworkers go on strike & paralyze the whole Russian rail network |
| 1917 | Khabalov, Sergei Semenovich | |
| 24th Feb Petrograd General Khabalov's soldiers, acting under the Tsar's orders, open fire on striking workers, 169 workers are killed, and over 1,000 people are injured |
| 27th Feb Petrograd Khabalov has only 2,000 loyal troops as Petrograd is taken over by peasant soldiers |
| 1917 | Nicholas II | |
| 23rd Feb Petrograd 128,000 workers take to the streets, and among their chief demands is an end to the World War and an increase in food |
| 23rd Feb Petrograd The February Revolution begins, ignited by International Women's Day, militant women textile workers, many of whom are soldiers' wives, inititate a massive strike in Petrograd |
| 24th Feb Petrograd By nightfall, 66,000 men of the Petrograd garrison - a day ago ordered to fire on striking workers - have now joined the striking workers, fully armed |
| 24th Feb Petrograd The Litovsky and Preobrazhensky Regiments join a new rebel army, and storm the Main Arsenal, liberating 40,000 rifles, fully armed, they move on to liberate political prisoners frm Kresty jail |
| 24th Feb Petrograd The strike doubles in size to around 200,000 workers, nearly half of all industrial workers in Petrograd are on strike, the new demands of the strike shift heavily towards overthrowing the autocracy and putting and end to the war |
| 26th Feb Petrograd The police launch wide scale arrests of over 100 leaders of revolutionary organisations, including the Bolsheviks, General Khabalov's soldiers, acting under the Tsar's orders, open fire on striking workers, 169 workers are killed & over 1,000 injured |
| 1930 | Stalin, Joseph | |
| 4th Aug Odessa Russian troops kill 200 strikers in Odessa |
| 1953 | Malenkov, Georgi Maksimilanovich | |
| June Strikes breakout in Hungary |
| June Strikes breakout in Romania |
| July Siberia Strikes breakout at the Vorkuta labour camps in Siberia |
| 1989 | Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich | |
| July Miners go on strike |
