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Includes a bunch of semi-relevant events! To use, shuffle, pick a couple of terms (I recommend 5-15), then put them in order! the flashcard order is chronological :)
First Russians (Kievan Rus)
500 AC
Grand Prince Vladimir of Kiev rules
978
Vladimir converts to eastern orthodox christianity
987
Mongols attack and destroy Kiev
1240
Russia falls behind the rest of the world
1300s-1400s
Ivan III (great) frees Russians from mongol rule
1480
Ivan IV (terrible) becomes Czar
1547
Ivan the Terrible leaves
1564
Michael Romanov elected Czar
1613
Peter the Great
1682
Russia begins to westernize and modernize
1700s
Catherine the Great
1762
Paul(son of catherine)
1796
Communism is founded by Karl Marx
1848
Alexander II frees the serfs
1861
Nicholas II and Alexandra
1894
World War I Starts
1914
Rasputin dies
1916
Russian monarchy ends
1917
Alexander Kerensky is prime minister
1917
Russian revolution and civil war
1917
WWI Ends
1918
Vladimir Lenin founds the Soviet Union
1922
Bolsheviks seize power
1923
Josef Stalin vs Leon Tronsky
1928
Stalin takes over
1928
WW2
1939
Leon Trosnky assasinated
1940
Cold War starts
1947
End of Stalins rule
1953
Nikita Khrushev
1955
Soviets launch Sputnik
Soviets launch Sputnik, the world’s first artificial satellite
Leonid Brezhnev
1964
Yura Andropov
1982
Konstantine Chemenko
1984
Mikhail Gorbachev (START treaties that limit nuclear weapons)
1985
Cold War ends
1989
Soviet Union collapses
1991
Boris Yeltsin (alcoholic)
1991
Vladimir Putin
2008
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