Russian Leaders

Timeline created by oswitchy in Politics

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Timespan Dates:	Timespan Title:	Timespan Description:
02/02/980 to 02/02/1015	Grand Price Vladimir of Kiev	Significance of his ruling: Converting Russia to Christianity
02/02/1462 to 02/02/1505	Ivan III The Great	Significance of his ruling: Tripled the amount of Russian territory
02/02/1533 to 02/02/1584	Ivan IV The Terrible	Significance of his ruling: Conquered new territories creating a multicultural Russia
02/02/1613 to 02/02/1645	Michael Romanov	Significance of his ruling: Founder of Romanov dynasty which lasted until 1917
02/02/1682 to 02/02/1725	Peter I The Great	Significance of his ruling: He completely changed from traditional Russia to a more Westernized civilization
02/02/1762 to 02/02/1796	Catherine I The Great	Significance of his ruling: Longest ruling empress in Russia
02/02/1855 to 02/02/1881	Alexander II	Significance of his ruling: Declared emancipation of the Serfs
02/02/1894 to 02/02/1917	Nicholas II	Significance of his ruling: Lead Russia from being a great power to a economic and military collapse as well as lost the Russo - Japanese War
07/02/1917 to 11/02/1917	Alexander Kerensky	Significance of his ruling: Provided arms to Petrograd workers to revolt against the Bolsheviks, exiled to Paris soon after
02/02/1922 to 02/02/1924	Vladimir Lenin	Significance of his ruling: Mastermind behind Bolshevik revolution and take over in 1917
02/02/1941 to 02/02/1953	Joseph Stalin	Significance of his ruling: Succeeded in stopping German Invasion of the Soviet Union in WWII, went on the offense againt Germany
02/02/1953 to 02/02/1964	Nikita Khrushchev	Significance of his ruling: he was responsible for the partial de-Stalinization of the Soviet Union, for backing the progress of the early Soviet space program, and for several relatively liberal reforms in areas of domestic policy
02/02/1988 to 02/02/1991	Mikhail Gorbachev	Significance of ruling: First executive president of the Soviet Union
02/02/1991 to 02/02/1999	Boris Yeltsin	Significance of ruling: First freely elected president, reconstructed Soviet economy
02/02/1999 to 02/02/2008	Vladimir Putin	Significance of ruling: Credited for bringing political stability; currently prime minister and chairman of Russia
02/02/2008 to 02/02/2012	Dmitri Medvedev	Significance of ruling: A modernizer of Russia; Not running for a second term