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Invade Kievan Rus'- contributed to delayed development compared to the rest of Europe
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Creates Empire.
enemy- Poland
3goals: end golden horde, absord many russians into muscovy as possible, and make himself unchallenged ruler of his country -
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-the boyards power was stripped and put under the oprichniki, as a result it lead to civil war
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Tsar Mchael Romanov, extend russian land and curbs the power of the boyars, and strengthens autocratic power of the tsar.
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Perter The Great, reform minded czar. Peter created policy for Russia to follow in oder to westernize.
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- 3 Partitions- Destroyed Poland and Lithuania- Expanded territory, but was not a good ruler when it came to domestic governing
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Three partitons that ended the existence of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonweath. Resulting in the elimination of sovereign Poland, the partitions were perpetrated by the Russian Empire , the Kingdom of Prussia and Habsburg Austria. They divided up the Commonwealth lands among themselves progressively in the process of territorial seizures.
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-Marxism came to Russia when Ottoman Turks were rising to power in the 1800's
-Czar converted the citizeens into Eastern Orthodox Christians
-Serfs were emancipated in 1861 by Czar Alexander II -
Declined after World War I.
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Under joseph Stalin, tens of millions or people were executed or imprisoned in camps.
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During WWII the U.S. and Soviet Union fought together as allies against Axis power. The relation ship between the two power houses grew tense. Resulted in a war with out fighting, or a gobal super power stand off.
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The post WWII economic expansion and prosperity in the western countries, aka The Golden Age of Capitalism.
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Indigenous people who came from Asia
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Batu Khan launched invation into Kievan Rus'. Within the following year they will destory major cites, moved the russian Orthodox Church to Moscow.
