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The scandinavian warriors settled. The slavs settled also with the warriors. The settled on the Volga And Dnieper rivers
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The mongols invaded Kiev. They took power. They ruled for over 200 years.
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Ivan III "The Great" became king. He ended Mongol rule. He also expanded the territory. Ivan IV "The Terrible" took rule. He became Russia's first crowned Czar.
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The peasants became serfs. A serf is a enslave workforce bound to the land. Peter I "The Great" came to power. His goal modernize russia, enlarge territory and build a strong army. He built a new capital (St. Petersburg )
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Czar Alexander II assassinated. The serfs moved to the cities. Non-russians faced prejudice. Russification started encouraged people to speak russian. The works sought socialism.
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Bolsheviks seized control from Czar Nicholas II. Bolsheviks was a revolutionary group believe in communism led by Vladimir Lenin. Communism is the idea based on Karl Marx called for the violent overthrow of the govt. Vladimir Lenin is head of the soviet govt in 1917 to 1924. He organized the death and persecution of 140k people.
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Joseph Stalin governed russia with an Iron Fist. He would murder his opponents and the ones who was against his policies. He killed over 20 to 25 million russians. He defeated Hitler in World War II, he also demanded half of europe after World War II.
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The cold war soviet russia and the USA. It lasted for 4 decades. They was in a state where neither side directly attack each other but propped other countries too. Thr Propped vietnam and korea to attack russia. Mikhail gorbachev took power in 1985.
