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Russian Expansion
he expansion of Russian Empire led to the expansion of slavery in acquired territories. For certain parts of the country there was however made an exception. For example, several Cossack regions in Southern Russia and the Ural Mountains developed as isolated enclaves of relative freedom. The first Cossack regions formed between the 14th and 18th centuries on lonely borderlands settled by runaway serfs, organized brigands and other warlike adventurers mainly from Russia and Ukraine. -
Peter the Great
He used power to put russia on the road to becoming a great modern power. Peter was a grandson of Tsar Michael Romanov (who was crowned as Tsar in 1613). In 1682 Peter was proclaimed Tsar at the tender age of 10. But due to power struggles between different political forces in the country, the young Tsar was forced to rule jointly with his brother Ivan, under the patronage of their sister Sofia. In 1689, after a failed coup d'etat, Sofia was overthrown and exiled to a convent. -
The Great Northern War
The Great Northern War lasted from 1700 to 1721. The Great Northern War was fought between Sweden's Charles XII and a coalition lead by Peter the Great. By the end of the war, Sweden had lost her supremacy as the leading power in the Baltic region and was replaced by Peter the Great's Russia. -
Peter the Great Legacy
By the time of Peter’s death, and during the reigns of his immediate successors, the splendor and ceremony characteristic of the wealthiest and most powerful absolute monarchies in the rest of Europe were painstakingly imitated, and sometimes even surpassed, at the Russian court. Peter's projects came at great expense – measured in both money and lives – but the goals and aspirations of this ruthless visionary overrode any human cost. -
Partitions of Poland
The First Partition occurred after Russia became involved in a war against the Ottoman Turks (1768) and won such impressive victories, particularly in the Danubian principalities, that Austria became alarmed and threatened to enter the war against Russia. Frederick II the Great of Prussia, however, in order to avoid an escalation of the Russo-Turkish War, determined to calm Austro-Russian relations by shifting the direction of Russia’s expansion from the Turkish provinces to Poland, which not on -
Rise of Russia's Communist State
The seeds of future Russian Communisms were sown with the abolition of serfdom in 1861. Serfdom is a form of slavery where peasants are tied to a piece of farmland. They are allowed to use the land to provide for themselves and their family, but are forced to succumb to the will of their master in all things, including military service whenever needed. The abolition of serfdom resulted in a mass exodus from the agricultural areas to the cities, where the new working class found employment in fac -
Impact of world war 1
The rise of communism, the fall of the empire, the rise of Stalin, death of lenin, Russia began to modernize though they were still considered a second rate nation until the end of WW2. Millions died in russia from famine. The royal family was executed. And we start to see a major expansion into the far east into siberia and abroad. -
Bolshevik Revolution
The Bolshevik Revolution in Russia in 1917 was initiated by millions of people who would change the history of the world as we know it. When Czar Nicholas II dragged 11 million peasants into World War I, the Russian people became discouraged with their injuries and the loss of life they sustained. The country of Russia was in ruins, ready for revolution. -
Tsar Steps Down
Nicholas II stepped down as Czar due to the end of the Russian Revolution. As Czar, he lost many wars and many people were killed under his reign. -
War Under Communism
War Communism was the name given to the economic system that existed in Russia from 1918 to 1921. War Communism was introduced by Lenin to combat the economic problems brought on by the civil war in Russia. It was a combination of emergency measures and socialist dogma. -
Terror as a Weapon
Nuclear terrorism denotes the detonation of a yield-producing nuclear bomb containing fissile material by terrorists.[1] Some definitions of nuclear terrorism include the sabotage of a nuclear facility and/or the detonation of a radiological device, colloquially termed a dirty bomb, but consensus is lacking on exactly what should be classified nuclear terrorism. In legal terms, nuclear terrorism is an offense committed if a person unlawfully and intentionally “uses in any way radioactive materia -
Stalin takes Over
Lenin died in 1924. Everyone thought Trotsky, the brilliant leader of the Red Army would become leader – especially as Lenin left a Testament saying that Stalin was dangerous and should be dismissed. But it was Stalin who took power.
Stalin was made General Secretary of the Communist Party in 1922. Everybody thought it was a dull, unimportant job. Stalin used it to get his supporters into important positions.
