Russian Timeline by Lindsey Gunderson https://padlet.com/lggun2022/vq1eh72r7iuv Lindsey and Oliva en-us 2018-02-28 17:21:52 UTC 2018-02-28 17:42:15 UTC hello@padlet.com lggun2022 https://padlet.com/lggun2022/vq1eh72r7iuv/wish/236539397
  • 400’s & 500’s
  • Eastern Slavs came to Russia
  • Eastern Slavs were traders
  • They encountered invading Goths from Germany along with Huns, Avars, Magyars, and Khazars from Asia
  • 800’s
  • Scandinavian raiders and merchants called Vikings took over Novgorod and Kiev and many other trading centers
  • The prince of the Vikings was prince Rurik
  • 1000’s
  • The Kievan Rus formed close ties with the Byzantine empire
  • In 1240, Mongol armies took Kiev and the Kievan Rus collapsed




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  • 1000’s
  • 1480 is when Prince Ivan III of Muscovy overthrew the Golden Horde
  • Michael Romanov becomes the new tsar in 1613
  • Catherine II, also known as Catherine the Great took power in 1762
  • 1800’s
  • Many European nations moved to democracy while Russia’s tsars clung to monarchy
  • Russian lost the Crimean War to Britain, Turkey, and France in 1865
  • Many of the Russian army were escaped serfs who joined hoping for liberty. Tsar Alexander II freed them in 1861 but made them pay nobles for land

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  • 1900’s
  • Russian parliament forced Nicholas II to give up the throne in March 1917
  • Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks, which were a Russian political group that called for worker control, took power in October 1917
  • The Bolsheviks killed NIcholas and his family in 1918 and 300 years after the Romanov dynasty had come to and end
  • In 1922, Russia united with other parts of the former Russian Empire to form the Soviet Union
  • Josef Stalin took control in 1924
  • The horrible famine of 1932-1933 showed how disastrous collectivization could be

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  • 1900’s-2000’s
  • The Soviet Union fought a failed war to support a communist government during the 1980s
  • Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in 1985
  • Soviet officials security officials seized power in August 1991
  • At the end of 1991, the Soviet Union official broke apart
  • 1994-2005 Russia fought a war against rebels in Chechnya who wanted independence 
  • Boris Yeltsin resigned in 1999 naming Vladimir Putin as president 

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