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Sep 10, 1533
ivan IV the terrible
Ivan IV, the Terrible (1533-84), he is considered to have founded the Russian state
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romanov dynasty
rulers of Russia from 1613 until the Russian Revolution of February 1917.
the Romanovs acquired their name from Roman Yurev (d. 1543), whose daughter Anastasiya Romanovna Zakharina-Yureva was the first wife of Ivan IV the Terrible -
Peter the Great became Czar
made extensive reforms, westernization, through his defeat of Charles XII of Sweden at the Battle of Poltava in 1709, he extended Russia's boundaries. -
Catherine the Great became empress
Catherine the Great (1762-96) continued Peter's westernization plans and also expanded Russian territory, -
Austria, Prussia, and Russia divided Poland amongst themselves. Russia received Belarus, Lithuania, and Ukraine from Poland
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Alexander I became Czar
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Napoleon Bonaparte led troops into Russia but was defeated
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holy alliance
Alexander originated, which for a time crushed Europe's rising liberal movement. which led to the Russia revolution.
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Nicholas I became Czar
In the Decembrist revolt in 1825, a group of young, reformist military officers attempted to force the adoption of a constitutional monarchy in Russia by preventing the accession of Nicholas I. They failed utterly, and Nicholas became the most reactionary leader in Europe. -
The Crimean War broke out between Russia and the Ottoman Empire
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Alexander II (1855-81) pushed Russia's borders to the Pacific and into central Asia. -
Russia sold Alaska to the United States
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Nicholas II became Czar
heavy restrictions were imposed on the emancipated class. Revolutionary strikes, following Russia's defeat in the war with Japan, forced Nicholas II (1894-1917) to grant a representative national body (Duma), elected by narrowly limited suffrage. -
The Russian Social Democratic Labor Party was established by the Marxists
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World War I broke out and the Russians fought the Germans and Austrians
World War I demonstrated corruption and only patriotism held the poorly equipped army together for a time. Disorders broke out in Petrograd (St. Petersburg) -
russian revolution
there were two revolutions in Russia. One was the February Revolution in which the Tsar abdicated his throne and the Provisional Government took power. The other was the October Revolution in which the Provisional Government was overthrown by the Bolsheviks. -
leon trotsky
Trotsky was in the Bolshevik seizure of power in Russia, second only to Vladimir Lenin in the early stages of Soviet communist rule. But he lost out to Joseph Stalin in the power struggle that followed Lenin's death, and was assassinated while in exile. -
Lenin became the leader of the Bolsheviks
was a Russian communist revolutionary, politician and political theorist who served as the Premier of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924. A Marxist, his ideas on revolutionary theory became known by others as Leninism -
union of soviet socialit republic
July : Czar Nicholas II and his family were murdered
Russia became the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic which eventually formed the
Union of Soviet Socialist Republic (USSR)
Lenin changes the name of the Bolshevik party to Russian
Communist Party and he and his family were killed by revolutionists on July 16,
Red Army entered several territories of the former Russian Empire and helped local community
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joseph stalin
One of the most powerful and murderous dictators in history, Stalin was the ruler of the Soviet Union for a quarter of a century. His regime caused the death and suffering of tens of millions, but he also oversaw the war machine that played a key role in the defeat of Nazism. -
Lenin died
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end of the soviet union
The dissolutionwas a process of systematic disintegration, occurred in economy, social structure and political structure. It resulted in the abolition of the Soviet Federal Government and independence of the USSR's republics on 25 December 1991. The process was caused by weakening of the Soviet government, which led to disintegration and took place from about 19 January 1990 to 31 December 1991.
