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Russian history dates back to 862AD. By mid-1200, the Russian territory spanned current-day Poland to the Pacific coast. By the 20th century, Russia became one of the superpowers and is now a major contributor to world policies.
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women who were angry because there was no bread
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I can answer you the same thing: why does your calendar start with Sunday? You start your week on Monday, right? You go to your...
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The Soviet Union was formed from the Russian Empire in the aftermath of the 1917 Russian Revolution. It comprised of 15...
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The Romanov dynasty, the autocracy which put too much pressure on the 'citizens' who were actual pretty much slaves
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'Cause at that time there wasn't any more mighty and cultural naighbour around Kievan Russia than Byzantine Empire. And its...
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Stalin was on the wanted list of both the Tsarist police and secret police several times for escaping from his exile locations...
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Life for Russians is better than it was during the Soviet Union. Russia is now post-USSR. However, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin...
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AnswerUnion of Soviet Socialist Republics
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The Russian empress Catherine II (1729-1796), known as Catherine the Great, reigned from 1762 to 1796. She expanded the Russian...
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A Tsar or Czar, depending on your preferred spelling.
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In 1922 Germany and the emerging Soviet Union signed a treaty in Rapallo (in Italy). There were secret clauses in which Russia...
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In numerous Battles, but he never conquered Russia.
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Peter the Great had enemies, one of whom was Charles XII of Sweden. He had the most powerful standing army in Europe. Peter...
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The White Russians followed the Czar, Nicholas II. This was comprised of Loyalists and cossacks. The Red Russians, were part of...
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The "Russian Revolution" consisted of two revolutions in 1917. The February Revolution began on February 24, 1917 (New Style:...
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Stalin had little to do with the actual take over of the government by Lenin, Trotsky and the Bolsheviks. At the time he was...
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Stalin used a number of tactics to gain control of the communist party: exploiting his opponents and their weaknesses; gathering...
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Both of Ivan the Terrible's parents died at an early age. He was raised by boylars who didn't pay any attention to him. In his...
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The populist party in Russia wanted the peasants to have the future of Russia in their hands. The populists wanted to educate the...
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No, because the U.S. never declared war on Russia or the Soviet Union. (This may come as a bit of a shock).
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Firstly he was elected as General Secretary of the Communist Party to aid Lenin, however when Lenin became incapacitated, Stalin...
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Anarchy set in. Various factions, Trotzkyites, Menshaviks, White Russians attempted to take power.The Tzar and his family were...
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Vladimir Ulianov(better known as Lenin) was the leader of the party that eventually became the Communist Party of the USSR. At...
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probably that the condition of the serfs deteriorated during her reign
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soviets.
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Joseph Stalin
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Lenin and the Bolsheviks staged a military coup rather than a true revolution on October 25, 1917 to take power away from the...
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Allowing for more freedom of speech -APEX
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Which Russia? The area of today's Russian Federation contained something over 90 million people. But the question more likely...
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The war was going poorly for the Allies in 1917. Germany and Austria knocked Russia out of the war. A liberal democratic...
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Comintern, or communist international
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Stalingrad is the name of a city in Russia, which used to be called Tsaritsyn from 1589 to 1925 when the name was changed to...
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Very little.Joseph Stalin died in 1953. The Cold War was barely started at the time. However, he was ruler during the Korean War,...
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Hard to ascertain using modern satmaps. However did find one area approx 1 mile due NW of Volkovskiy and approx 3-4 miles due E...
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Trotsky's policy, or philosophy about communism was permanent revolution. That meant that there should be communist revolution...
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eastern Europe's growing economic subordination to the west.
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Yes, the Romanovs were murdered by the Bolsheviks in 1918
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Russian revolution is still aliveThis question is not as simple as it seems to be. In some sence Russian...
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Vladimir Lenin was the first premier of the Soviet Union hope that helps
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Lenin's (his last name was actually Ulyanov) father was a inspector and a director of a public school. Both of his parents were...
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AROUND 800 AD BUT MOSCOW WAS AROUND 1147 ADTsardom of Russia: 1547 Russian Empire: 1721 Soviet Union: December 30, 1922 ...
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Leon Trotsky, Revolutionary * Born: 7 November 1879 * Birthplace: Yanovka, Ukraine * Died: 21 August 1940 (assassination by...
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Joseph Stalin.
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communists
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Pyotr Stolypin died in Kyiv in 1911. He was shot and died as a result. He was 49 years old when he died.
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Joseph Stalin was the so-called "Man of Steel." He created the name for himself from the Russian word "stal" for "steel."
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Yes. The armed forces were known as the Red Army, as well as Red Air Force, Red Marines, Red navy etc, until after Stalin died in...
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Lenin was in exile,Sold out russia to Germans by helping to lose WWI to finance revolution,greatest TRAGEDY in Russian and world...
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The only atomic bombs ever dropped in a time of war were dropped on Nagasaci and Hiroshima Japan (sorry for bad spelling). They...
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The Soviet Union was an assembly of Socialist states dating from the 1920s to its eventual dissolution in 1991. Although the...
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AnswerThe impact was grave, over 30 million Russians killed between socialist M A N I A C S lenin and later Stalin. Even today in...
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It seems that you're looking for word 'pogroms', which referred to physical violence often invovling deaths.
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Yes Stalin was a dictator. After the revolution the USSR was a democratic communist state but the elite took control of the...
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No GrandchildrenNo One - Tsar Nicholas II was executed along with his entire family, so he has no living grandchildren or any...
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Politically, Stalin believed that the Russian people were superior to the other races (Muslims, Ukrainians, Letts, Asians, etc.)...
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It depends on which segment of the public, which was divided into different classes. The peasants loved him because he was one of...
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Russia fought alongside the 'Entente', so its allies were Serbia, France, Britain and the British Empire, including Canada,...
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The Soviets were Accustomed to Roosevelt's friendly, patient style, Molotov was shaken. "I have never been talked to like that in...
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Russia had three forms of government during WWI. The first was the autocracy under Tsar Nicholas II. The second was a government...
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Many would argue that Gorbachev did not fail as a leader but helped lead the Soviet Union out of the cold war and into a new era...
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"The bodies of Nicholas and his family, after being soaked in acid and burned, were long believed to have been disposed of down a...
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The Lower Legislative body in the Russian Government.
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It is the Russian acronym for the Soviet Airborne Special forces.
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There were a lot of reasons the Bolshevik Revolution broke out. Some of these were:The determination, skills and organisation of...
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I have done some research and as it occurs, there was a brief period that some refer to as the occupation of Yugoslavia from the...
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Czar Peter I (later called the Great) wanted to westernize Russia, after he returned from the trip his mother sent him on to...
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One group was the "White Army".
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The Russian Revolution happened in 1917, and World War I took place in the years 1914-1918. So therefore, they both influenced...
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Lenin was not known as "the man of steel." Joseph Stalin was known as that. He adopted the name "Stalin" from the Russian word...
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With an iron fist. Stalin was responsible for millions of murders of his fellow countrymen.
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no Vladimir Lenin lived from April 10, 1870 - 1924Joseph Stalin lived from December 18, 1879 - 1953
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As a matter of fact Ivan never ment to kill his son. IT is said there is a lot of thery's as that Ivan killed his son because his...
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The mutiny was at Kronstadt, near Petrograd (St. Petersburg).
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Hi This is a tough one to answer, and you're going to have to read a book or two, but essentially Stalin decided that Russia was...
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It disintegrated into several of its components including the nation called "Russia", as well as Ukraine, Belarus, etc.
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Russia became "communist" (actually only socialist) because the autocratic government of the Tsarist regime failed to provide...
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The First Russian-Chechen war began in 1994 and ended in 1996 when Chechen rebels captured Grozny,the capital of Chechen...
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Joseph Stallin- While joined with the Allied Forces, Stalin improved the economy, made many allies and portrayed dictatorship.
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The Duma.
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There are many theories on what happened to the Tsar and his family and the most common told story is that on the 17th July 1918,...
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There was no love lost between them.
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It took Russia out of royal control and turned Russia into the USSR by Vladimir Lenin.
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The reason the Russians won was because they just fell back and burned all their crops down so Napoleon's troops didn't have...
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At that time, the tzar Nikolaj had already abdicized and they were held in captivity guarded by the boljshevik army.The...
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The February Revolution occurred on February 22, 1917, according to the Julian calendar that Russia was using at the time. The...
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he had a sipmlified bureaucratic system that are like ministries or departments
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The positive effect was to rid the country of 300 years of autocratic rule by the Romanov clan, especially now that Nicholas II...
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There was a communist revolution in Cuba and they decided to be friends with the communist Soviet Union.
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Vladimir Lenin and the Bolshevik Party did, but it was not "after the overthrow of Czar Nicholas II." Immediately after the Czar...
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The two most important where the revolution in 1907 after the Russian Japanese war and the revolution of 1917 which finally...
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This is a privately minted set of silver rounds. It's value is based on the total amount of silver contained in the set. If you...
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In 1918 the Soviet government moved the capital from St Petersburg (known at the time as Petrograd) to Moscow, which had been the...
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There were several "Russian Revolutions", but the furthest reaching was the October Revolution of 1917 (Ten Days That Shook the...
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