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Period: Feb 14, 1223 to Feb 14, 1240
Mongol Invation
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Kievan Rus' faced its greatest threat from invading Mongols. In 1223 an army from Kievan Rus', together with a force of Turkic Polovtsians, faced a Mongol raiding party at the Kalka River. The Kievan alliance was defeated soundly. Then, in 1237-38, a much larger Mongol force overran much of Kievan Rus'. In 1240 the Mongols sacked the city of Kiev and then moved west into Poland and Hungary.
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Feb 13, 1303
The Rise of Muscovy
The development of the Russian state can be traced from Vladimir-Suzdal' through Muscovy to the Russian Empire. Muscovy drew people and wealth to the northeastern periphery of Kievan Rus'; established trade links to the Baltic Sea, the White Sea, and the Caspian Sea and to Siberia; and created a highly centralized and autocratic political system. Muscovy -
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Period: Feb 14, 1547 to
Ivan IV
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Known as Ivan the Terrible, Both of his parent died when he was young, Known for his uncontrollable fits of rage, Married to Anastasia Romanovna, Ivan created a centrally controlled Russian state, imposed by military dominance, He is rumored to have killed his son in a fit of rage.The years that are known as the “terror years” began after his first wife died.
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Times of Troubles
Period of political crisis in Russia that followed the demise of the Rurik dynasty (1598) and ended with the establishment of the Romanov dynasty (1613). During this period foreign intervention, peasant uprisings, and the attempts of pretenders to seize the throne threatened to destroy the state itself and caused major social and economic disruptions
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Peter the Great
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Peter the Great (1672-1725). Peter was tsar of Russia, his self-given title was Peter the Great though he was officially Peter I. Peter the Great is credited with dragging Russia out of the medieval times.
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Catherine the Great
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Married to Peter III, Had an unhappy marriage, Had a 3 children Paul , Anna Petrovna, Alexis Bobrinsky, Became the primary ruler after overthrowing Peter III with a coup
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Russification Policy
Russification was the name given to a law of Alexander III. Russification was designed to take the sting out of those who wanted to reform Russia and to bind all the Russian people around one person – the tsar.
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Bolsheviks
Russian Marxists spilt into two groups: Mensheviks and Bolsheviks. The Bolsheviks were born out of Russia’s Social Democrat Party. When the party split in 1903, the Bolsheviks only had one obvious leader – Lenin.
The Bolsheviks<br>
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Russo-Japanese War
Military conflict in which a victorious Japan forced Russia to abandon its expansionist policy in the Far East, becoming the first Asian power in modern times to defeat a European power
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Russian Revolution of 1905
Uprising that was instrumental in convincing Tsar Nicholas II to attempt the transformation of the Russian government from an autocracy into a constitutional monarchy.
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February Revolution – 1917
In Russia, the February Revolution (known as such because of Russia's use of the Julian calendar) begins on this day in 1917, when riots and strikes over the scarcity of food erupt in Petrograd (now St. Petersburg)
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October Revolution of 1917
In Apr., 1917, Lenin and other revolutionaries returned to Russia after having been permitted by the German government to cross Germany. The Germans hoped that the Bolsheviks would undermine the Russian war effort. Lenin galvanized the small and theretofore cautious Bolshevik party into action.
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Russian Civil War
Russian Civil War
The Russian Civil War was to tear Russia apart for three years. The civil war occurred because after November 1917, many groups had formed that opposed Lenin’s Bolsheviks. These groups included monarchists, militarists, and, for a short time, foreign nations. Collectively, they were known as the Whites while the Bolsheviks were known as the Reds. -
World War I & Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
On March 3, 1918, in the city of Brest-Litovsk, located in modern-day Belarus near the Polish border, Russia signs a treaty with the Central Powers ending its participation in World War I. The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk brought about the end of the war between Russia and Germany in 1918.
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Adoption of Eastern Orthodoxy
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Period: to Feb 13, 1240
Kievan Rus’
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First eastern Slavic state. It was founded by the Viking Oleg, who seized Smolensk and Kiev (882), which became the capital of Kievan Rus. Extending his rule, Oleg united local Slavic and Finnish tribes, Kievan Rus peaked in the 10th and 11th centuries becoming eastern Europe’s chief political and cultural centre.
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