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Chronological Order

• First Kievan city-states (500AD)

• Grand Prince Vladimir converts to Eastern (Russian) Orthodox Christianity. (987).

• Mongols attacked and destroyed Kiev (1240).

• Ivan III and IV

• Time of troubles.

• Michael Romanov was elected Czar by boyars.

• Peter the Great

• Catherine the Great rules (1762-1796).

• Nicholas II starts his rule. (1894).

•  Socialist Revolutionary Party is founded (1901)

• Revolution of 1905

• First Duma elected (1906)

• World War I starts. (1914)

• St. Petersburg was renamed Petrograd (1914).

• Russian revolution begins. (February 1917)

• Nicholas II overthrown, the Provisional government takes over (March 1917).

• All Russian Soviet formed (June 1917)

• Bolsheviks take control, Lenin put in charge (1917).

• Russia out of WWI, Civil war starts (Dec. 15th, 1917)

• War communism introduced 

• NEP replaces war communism. (1921)

• Lenin dies (1924)

• Stalin is in power (1928-53)

• Great Purge/Terror (1934-38)

• Leon Trotsky assassinated (1940)

• Boris Yeltsen First President(1991-1999)

• Putin First term(1999-2007)

• Dimitry Medvedev(2008-2012)

• Putin president(2012-today)