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Won most of Russias land through conquest or voluntary allegiance. He also re-won the Ukraine. Created the foundation for the current Russian state. 1462-1505
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1533-1584 He was the first tsar of Russia. He was well known for creating a centralize government and for aquiring a lot of land. He also reformed the tax-collection system and introduced sel-government.
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1613-1645 Founder of the Romanov dynasty. Election ended the Time of Troubles, a time of interna disorder, foreign invasion and rapid succession of rulers.
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1682-1696 Peter ruled joitly with his half-brother. They focused on the development of science and hired experts to educate the people. Tried to mirror western culture and established the first wide-spread Russian newspaper. He won territory in Estonia and Latvia
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1762-1796 Catherine was the most well renowned and the longest ruling empress. Originally married Peter III but then consipered with a lover to get rid of him
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Europe was under the control of Napoleon and they rebelled on the day of his fatal Russian campaign.
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1855-1881 Alexander was well known for freeing the lower class people who previously had almost no rights. He gave them the right to marry and own land. He also signed a treaty with China and ended a Polish uprising.
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This war was caused by Russians who refused to divide North Korea with Japan and as a result, a year long war developed and claimed thousands of lives.
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In 1905, Alexander Kerensky joined the Socialist Revolutionary Party of the Soviet Union. He became the Minister of War in 1917.
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It became Russia's offical political party until August 29th, 1991. They were the first to establish a scialist state.
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Communist rule was official during the war and the Romanov family lost their 300 years of ruling power.
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In 1912, Vladmir Lenin established the first communist party.
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it was a revolution over the right to rule the Russian Government. The Bolsheviks succeeded with their overthrow of the government and this led to communism.
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this resulted in the end of the Russian empire and the start of a communist empire. In addition, the Russian civil wasr started later on after the revolution.
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This resulted in the end of the Russian empire and the start of a communist empire. In addition, the Russian Civil War started later on after the revolution
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This policy permitted certain types of private economic activity, in order for the country to recover from the civil. This was abandoned after Lenin died as Joseph Stalin took over the country.
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This policy permitted certain types of private economic activity, in order for the country to recover from teh Civil War. This was abandoned after Lenin died as Joseph Stalin took over the country.
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The USSR stand for the union of soviet socialist republics, it united a lot of smaller and larger countries together to form one great nation.
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Joseph Stalin was the General Secretary of the Communist Party and the Soviet Unions sole leader from 1924 to 1953
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This plan was to aimed to help improve the development of iron, steel, machine tools, electric power and transportation. He hoped tis would improve their work force and economy.
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Germany invaded Russia and killed 20 million citizens: this caused caused territorial tention and was the start of the Cold War.
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The Cold War devastated the Russian economy, it was a no contact war between the Western World and Communist world, and after it was over reconstuction took place in Russia and resulted in a peaceful revolution.
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The Soviet Union formed an agreement with Cuba to set up missile launching sites in China. This gave the Soviet Union an advantage against teh US incase the US ever attacked the Soviet Union.
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During the Soviet invasion, the Soviets supported the Afghan communists in the Civil War agains the Muslim guerrillas. In the end, 15,000 Russians were killed and 37,000 were wounded; this contributed to the fall of the USSR.
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Mikhail Gorbachev was elected as General Secratary of the Communist Party in 1985.
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Glasnot means openess and perestroika means restructing in Russia. These were the symbolic words spoken by Mikhail Gorbachev for the remodeling of the Soviet body politics and society that he pushed for.
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In 1989, Boris Yeltsin won the race for the new Russian Parliment.
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They were taking a step away from their original government before 1991. Their new democracy represents teh working class who then elects workers' councils to represent them.
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This was part of the separation of the individual countries that usesd to make up the soviet union.
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In 1991 Chechnya declared independence from Russia, but in 1993 Russian troops were sent to restablish authority. The people of Chechnya refused and they have been committing terroristic acts in Russia and vise versa since the catastrophy happened.
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The crash was believed to have been caused by the Russian government devaluing teh ruble and defaulting its debt.
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In 1999, Vladmir Putin was pushed into presidency due to the resignation of the former presedent. He then ran again in 2004 and won.
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Dimitri Medvedev is the current Russian president. He was elected in 2008 following Vladmir Putin.
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Georgia was launching a major military offense again South Ossetia and Russia intervened because they have been fighting for that land too.
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Converted Russia to the Orhtodox Catholic religion.