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The Mongols from Central Asia invade and conquier Kievan Rus
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Ivan the III rejected Mongol rule and declaired independence and became known as Ivan the Great
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After Muskovy became Russia Ivan became Czar and ruled harshly with using a secret police and he got the title Ivan the Terrible
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In the early 1700s Russia wanted contact with Europe and Peter the Great built a new capital- St.Petersburg and it was close to Europe
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The Franch army lead by Napoleon invaded Russia, although they had to retreat back to France because of the cold
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Alexander II freed the countries 40 million serfs
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Russia joined with France and Britain to fight Germany and Austria in WW1
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In 1917 the people had a revolution that forced Czar Nicholas II out of his powerful position. Later that year Vladimir Lenin led a second revolt that overthrew the temporay government.
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Joseph Stalin got his position as ruler after Lenin's death and Stalin had prevented the Russians from practicing their religion
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Germany invaded the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union then joined with Great Britian and the U.S. to defeat the Germans.
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Mikhail Gorbachev became the new leader of the Soviet Union and quickly began a number of reforms in the Soviet Union
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From the early 1940's to the 1990's the Soviet Union and the U.S. struggled for world influence, it was called the cold war because there was no combat.
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In 1991 all of the regions communist governments had fallen, the Soviet Union broke up and became Russia
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The early Slavs bult a civilization around the city of Kiev, today the capital of Ukraine.
