Russian Timeline

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  • 1530 BCE

    Ivan IV ¨The Terrible¨

    Ivan IV ¨The Terrible¨
    Ivan reign saw the completion of the construction of a centrally administered Russian state and the creation of an empire that included non-Slavs states.Ivan became the first crowned czar in Russia.
  • 1470 BCE

    Ivan III ¨The Great¨

    Ivan III ¨The Great¨
    Ivan The Great tripled the territory of his state and ended the dominance of the Mongols/Tatars over Russia.
  • 1200 BCE

    The Mongols Invade

    The Mongols Invade
    The Mongols invade Kiev and destroy many cities but also conquered Kiev.
  • 800 BCE

    Scandinavian Warriors

    Scandinavian Warriors
    The Warriors and Slavs moved south to trade.They settled near the Volga and Dnieper Rivers.

  • Peter I ¨The Great¨

    Peter I ¨The Great¨
    Peter the Great was a Russian czar in the late 17th century who is best known for his extensive reforms in an attempt to establish Russia as a great nation. He created a strong navy, reorganized his army according to Western standards, secularized schools, administered greater control over the reactionary Orthodox Church and introduced new administrative and territorial divisions of the country.

  • The Serfs

    The Serfs
    Peasants owned land or their business but not always but till uneducated and unskilled.Then the peasants became serfs and they were almost like slaves. The people could not be bought and sold, but they could not leave their land without permission. Their land could be bought and sold.They did whatever their nobles said.

  • Czar Alexander II

    Czar Alexander II
    Alexander II was the emperor of Russia.Alexander's most significant reform as emperor was emancipation of Russia's serfs in 1861.He encouraged russification and workers sought socialism.
    Karl Marx -”classless society” equal sharing of wealth, public ownership of land (1848)

  • Joseph Stalin

    Joseph Stalin
    Joseph Stalin rose to power as General Secretary of the Communist Party in Russia, becoming a Soviet dictator after the death of Vladimir Lenin. Stalin forced rapid industrialization and the collectivization of agricultural land, resulting in millions dying from famine while others were sent to labor camps. His Red Army helped defeat Nazi Germany during World War II.

  • Post WWII

    Post WWII
    The post–World War II economic expansion, also known as the golden age of capitalism and the postwar economic boom or simply the long boom, was a broad period of worldwide economic expansion beginning after World War II and ending with the 1973–1975 recession.

  • Cold War

    Cold War
    The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the Soviet Union and the United States and their respective allies, the Eastern Bloc and the Western Bloc, after World War II. The period is generally considered to span the 1947 Truman Doctrine to the 1991 dissolution of the Soviet Union.