Leaders and Tsars

This man became the Prime Minister for Putin, after he became the President from 2008-2012, signed a ceasefire agreement with Georgia, and signed a treaty with Obama

Dmitry Medvedev

This man has essentially been in control of Russia for the last 24 years. Centralized power in Moscow.

Vladimir Putin

Focus on heavy industry over consumer goods; replaces Lenin; brutal dictator

Josef Stalin

Berlin Wall, Sputnik, “peaceful coexistence,” comes to power after Stalin

Nikita Khrushchev

First Democratically elected leader of Russia,

Boris Yeltsin

Leader who sent troops into Afghanistan; replaced Khrushchev; USA boycotted 1980 Moscow Olympics during his lead

Leonid Brezhnev

The “right hand man” of Vladimir Lenin, who was deported to Mexico immediately after Lenin’s death and was killed there

Leon Trotsky

leader after the Russian Revolution,set up the secret police, had Nick II and family executed, Changed Russia's name to the USSR

Vladimir Lenin

7 ft. tall; became leader at 17, Built Russia's Navy; built St. Petersburg.

Peter the Great

SHE was called the “Enlightened Despot,” was obsessed with France and wanted to make Russia’s court as grand as France

Catherine the Great

The last Tsar of Russia; Married to Alexandra; Rasputin influenced his decisions

Nicholas II

Reversed all of his fathers liberal policies; started Pogroms, restored censorship.

Alexander III

Assassinated in 1881; liberated the serfs; eased censorship

Alexander II

Married to Nicholas II, becomes obsessed with curing her son, finds Rasputin and uses his hypnotic ability's on her son.

Alexandra

Glasnost and perestroika, reforms were too late

Mikhail Gorbachev