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Jan 1, 1200
Mongols
Mongols invade Kiev
Slavs moved north and set up trade posts in Moscow. -
Jan 1, 1480
1480 Ivan III
Ivan III rejected the mongolrule.
Declared independence.
Known as Ivan the Great. -
Jan 1, 1547
1547 Ivan IV
Ivan IV declared himself Czar
Ruled harshly
Known as Ivan the Terrible
Conquered and expanded south past The Caspian Sea -
1700 Peter and Catherine the Great
Peter the Great and Catherine the Great
Wanted warm water ports
Built the Capital St Petersburg
If you were wealthy you lived comfortably -
1812 Napolean Bonaparte
Large land, climate was a great defense
French led by Napolean Bonaparte invaded Russia
Russian Army burned land and farms
Russia won and remained independent -
1861 Czar Alexander II
Freed 40 million slaves
Modernized Russia and built industries
Remained Poor -
WWI
Russian Joins France and Great Britan to fight Germany and Austria in WWI -
1917 Czar Nicholas II
People of Russia staged a revolution
Forced Czar Nicholas II to step down
Family sent to a home in Siberia where they were murdered. -
Vladamir Lenin & Karl Marx
Set a communist state and government controlled economy
Moved Capital from St Petersburg inland to Moscow
Created U.S.S.R. in 15 republics
Followed Karl Marx's ideas (political thinker)
Wanted everyone equal
Ended private ownership
Government owned farms & factories
Lenin died 1924 -
Joseph Stalin
Harsh dictator
Did not allow citizens to practice religions property was seized
Killed anyone who desagreed with policies. -
WWII
Germany invaded Soviet Union
Soviets join US and Great Britan to defeat Germans
Stalin set up troops in neighboring countries. -
Cold War
Cold War meant that no weapons were fired
NATO- Europe democracies- US group of nations
Warsaw Pact = soviet Union = group communist countries= Europe -
Gorbachev and 1985 Attemps at Reform
Gorbachev- Soviet Union Leader
Glastnost- openess to say or write what you thought
Perestroika= reconstructing to boost economy
Citizens doubted communism
Huge protests -
1991 and Boris Yeltsin
President of U.S.S.R.
Built a democracy and market economy
All of the regions communist governments had fallen
Collapse of the Soviet Union -
Vladimir Putin and 1991
Increased government control dealing with crime and violence.
Served as second president of Russia -
Slavs
AD 800: Slavs build Kiev - Prospered with trade -
Missionaries
AD:988- Converted to Eastern Orhodox Christianity.
Missionaries brought the form of Christianity from Byzantine Empire to Kievan Rus
Brought writen language -
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Russia's history and government
