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Jan 1, 1000
Rus Settlement
Slavs founded settlements around the Dnieper River in the modern-day area of Ukraine. They found these areas to have fertile soil and a relatively moderate climate, overall a good place to settle! -
Period: Jan 27, 1000 to
A Brief History of Russia
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Period: Jan 1, 1205 to Jan 1, 1250
Mongol Invasion
An ultimately failed campaign to attack the Slavs, this invasion solidified Moscow as a leader. Some pockets remained Tartar regions and were part of the wave of Islam. -
Jan 1, 1350
Grand Duchy of Moscovy
Trade links were extended and bonds made with the Eastern Orthodox Church, soon followed great military power. -
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Reign of Peter the Great
He build a great empire influenced by the Russian Orthodox Church; Peter endeavored to make Russian more modern and built St. Petersburg (heavily fortified) near Scandanavia. He was a great leader. -
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Reign of Catherine the Great
She made Russia into a colonial power, Russia took over the Northern Coast of the Black sea during her reign. -
Seisure of Finland
During Northwest expansion Russia took over Finland from the Swedes. -
Founding of Vladivostok
One of the regions that Russia annexed from China, Vladivostok was a port on the Pacific ocean. -
Construction begins on the Trans-Siberian Railroad
Russia wanted China to permit them to cross Manchuria to construct the railroad but China refused; in 1900 Russia took control of Manchuria and proceeded with construction. -
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Russo-Japanese War
Russians were beaten and forced out of Manchuria (part of China) the Japanese also took over Sakhalin Island and kept control over it until 1945 -
Communist Revolution
An overthrow of the oprresive and exploitative czarist regime and nn effort to incorporate all peoples and regions in the Russian empire into this vast multinational state; a rethinking of Imperialism due to newly adopted Socialist ideas. -
Lenin Leads Soviet Union
Lenin divides the land into 15 Soviet Socialist Republics to correspond with the major ethnic groups. -
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Command Economy Practices
State planners assigned the production of goods to particular geographic areas. -
Russification
"shifting mulitinational mosiac" this produced substantial minorities in all the non-Russian republics. Russian people moved into more territories. -
Soviet Disintegration
The wall falls, the arms race with the US drained resources, the structured government crumbled, and many soviet states wanted independence. -
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Russian Orthodoxy
the Russian Orthodox Church makes a comeback in conjunciton with nationalist and ethnic propoganda. -
Near Abroad Policy
A makeover of geopolitical strategies in which former Soviet states are now countries in their own right but Russia still takes a special interest in them because they are surrounding and near Moscow. -
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Current Discontent
"Mafia capitalism" the term that describes the not quite free market that goes on in Russia, leads to greater income inequality and many youth disenchanted with the current system. In 2011 there were huge protests around the corrupt elections.