Russia multiple choice

He wrote the communist manifesto and Das Kapitol. The Soviet Union was based on this intellectual.

Karl Marx

Current president of Russia since 1999.

Vladimir Putin

He is the Czar who built St.Petersburg, known as his “window of Europe”

Peter the great

The last soviet leader instituted the policies of glasnost (openness) and perestroika (restructuring), which led to the downfall of the U.S.S.R

Mikhail Gorbachev

This man became the president of the Russian Federation for one term, standing in for Putin. He also served as the prime minister from 2012-2020.

Dmitri Medvedev

The last soviet czar of the Russian empire. He was taken with his entire family to Yekaterinburg in the Ural Mountains, where they were executed.

Nicholas II

Born in Georgia, his name was originally Josef Djugashvili. He led the Soviet Union through WWII and became infamous for sending political prisoners to Siberia.

Josef Stalin

This man took over from Gorbachev in the summer of 1991, overseeing the breakup of the Soviet Union

Boris Yeltsin

Marxist who led the Russian Revolution (1917)  becoming the first leader of the Soviet Union.

Vladimir Lenin

Soviet leader during the Cuban Missile Crisis. John F. Kennedy was U.S. president at the time.

Nikita Khrushchev