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Apr 4, 1462
The Great Ivan III
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 -
Apr 11, 1533
Ivan IV (The Terrible)
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. -
Micheal Romanov (Micheal I)
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. -
Peter I (The Great)
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 -
Catherine II
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 -
Napoleon's Invasion of Russia
Europe was under the control of Napoleon and they rebelled on the day of his fatal Russian campaign. -
Alexander II
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. -
Russo-Japenese War
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. -
Alexander Kerensky
In 1905, Alexander Kerensky joined the Socialist Revolutionary Party of the Soviet Union. He became the Minister of War in 1917. -
Creation of the Communist Party
It became Russia's offical political party until August 29th, 1991. They were the first to establish a scialist state. -
World War I
Communist rule was official during the war and the Romanov family lost their 300 years of ruling power. -
Vladmir Lenin
In 1912, Vladmir Lenin established the first communist party. -
Bolshevik Revolution
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. -
Russian Revolution
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. -
Russian Revolution
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 -
Lenin's New Economic Policy
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. -
Lenin's New Economic Policy:
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. -
Establishment of the USSR
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. -
Joseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin was the General Secretary of the Communist Party and the Soviet Unions sole leader from 1924 to 1953 -
Stalin's Five Year Plan
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. -
World War II
Germany invaded Russia and killed 20 million citizens: this caused caused territorial tention and was the start of the Cold War. -
Cold War
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. -
Cuban Missle Crisis:
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. -
Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
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. -
Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikhail Gorbachev was elected as General Secratary of the Communist Party in 1985. -
Glasnot/Perestroika:
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. -
Boris Yeltsin
In 1989, Boris Yeltsin won the race for the new Russian Parliment. -
Democracy of Russia Implemented
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. -
End of Communist Party
This was part of the separation of the individual countries that usesd to make up the soviet union. -
Wars with Chechnya
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. -
Russian Stock Market Crash
The crash was believed to have been caused by the Russian government devaluing teh ruble and defaulting its debt. -
Vladmir Putin
In 1999, Vladmir Putin was pushed into presidency due to the resignation of the former presedent. He then ran again in 2004 and won. -
Dimitri Medvedev
Dimitri Medvedev is the current Russian president. He was elected in 2008 following Vladmir Putin. -
Russia's War with Georgia
Georgia was launching a major military offense again South Ossetia and Russia intervened because they have been fighting for that land too. -
Grand Prince Vladimir of Kiev
Converted Russia to the Orhtodox Catholic religion.