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Mongols come to Kievan rus and conquer it driving the slavs into slavery.
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Ivan 3 rejected mongol rule and declared independence. He was known as Ivan the Great
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Ivan 4 was called Ivan the terrible because he used secret police to do his bidding. Ivan the terrible killed Millions of people with his secret police.
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Peter the Great built St. Petersburg on the east cost as the new capital.
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Napoleon tried to capture Moscow and had little supplies so thousands of men died from the lack of supplies and constant Russian attacks.
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Czar Alexander 2 freed the 40million serfs but they were not free from poverty.
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Russia joins France and Britain to defeat Austria and Germany.
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Everyone blames Czar Nicholas 2 for killing Millions in the war and food shortages.
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The U.S.S.R. is formed by Vladmir Lenin.
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By 1991 all comunist governments have been destroyed and Russians are looking both to the past as to the future.
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The semi-legendary warrior Rurik leads a group of vikings and builds Kiev. The empire is later called Kievan rus.
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Kievan rus accepts Christianity as official religion
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