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last of the romanovs
the Romanov dynasty was the second and last imperial dynasty to rule over Russia. They ruled from 1613 to 1917 until the Russian revolution ended their rule. -
creation of politburo
Organization that provided structure to the Russian people during the revolution. -
Russian civil war
war between the two sides in Russia called the czars and the communist. Communist won the war. -
Treaty of Brest Livosk
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk brought about the end of the war between Russia and Germany in 1918. The German were reminded of the harshness of Brest-Litovsk when they complained about the severity of the treaty of Versailles ginned in June 1919. -
Five year plans
This brought all industry under state control and all industrial development was planned by the state. The state would decide what would be produced -
ww2
War between everybody in the world containing the allies and axis, after Germany broke the agreement between Hitler and Stalin the US started helping the Russians. -
Romanov family
generations of a Russian family that ruled as Czars from generation generations -
hydrogen bomb
This bomb was developed by the US in the 1950s also called a thermonuclear bomb it was a lot stronger than an atomic bomb. -
Warsaw pact
is the name commonly given to the treaty between Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union. -
Sputnik
the Soviet Union sent into orbit Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite in history. Then a month later, an even larger and heavier satellite, Sputnik 2, carried the dog Laika into orbit. -
Joe 1
Designed to test spacecraft on mercury little Joe was a solid fuel rocket -
Creation of berlin wall
The Berlin Wall was the physical division between West Berlin and East Germany. However, it was also the symbolic boundary between democracy and Communism during the Cold War. -
invasion of check
committed to the Warsaw Pact, Moscow felt challenged by these developments, which undoubtedly played a major role in the decision to invade in August 1968 -
salt 1
Interim agreement between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on certain measures with respect to the limitation of strategic offensive arms -
salt 2
This was an agreement between the two sides several years later consisting on topics from the interim agreement but also limitations on the release of new defense systems -
soviet afgahn war
Nine year proxy war that took place supporting the Marxist and Lenist from Russia in afghan -
Glasnost
The goal of the Glasnost project is to make ISPs' traffic shaping policies transparent to their customers. To this end, we designed Glasnost tests that enable you to check whether traffic from your applications is being rate-limited (i.e., throttled) or blocked -
Perestroika
- in the 1980s this was a political movement made by the soviets to support the glasnost.
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gorbachev becomes leader
he represented a much younger generation of leaders when he took the thrown and attempted to invigorate the communist system of government. -
chernobal disaster
In 1986 there was a disaster in nuclear power plant in Ukraine was the result of a defective soviet reactor design coupled with serious mistakes made by plant operators. -
laika and sputnik
Sputnik 3 was a small capsule produced by the soviets that was set to carry the first living organism into space which was the dog named Laika -
voting reforms gorbachev
allowing Soviet citizens to vote for people other than Communist Party members, but the Communist Party of the Soviet Union suffers minimal loss in the elections -
berlin wall fall
A long time coming the wall was in existence for 28 years until the first free labor union emerged and the communist era was over. -
free elections
The spate of free competitive parliamentary elections held during the systemic 1989-91 transformation in Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, and Romania introduced a new democratic political order, legitimated a new constitutional order, and founded a democratic structure for multi-party system building. -
Gorbachev steps down
Gorbachev whom served as prime minister for many years resigned so that he would be remember for the positive things he already had done. -
boris yeltin
Russian politician, who became president of Russia in 1990. In 1991 he became the first popularly elected leader in the country’s history, guiding Russia through a stormy decade of political and economic retrenching until his resignation on the eve of 2000. -
lithuania and lativa protest
Organanizations are planning a united trip by buses and cars from Daugavpils to Vilnius