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This is a timeline of Russian history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Russia and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of Russia. See also the list of leaders of Russia.
Nov 7, 2017 · When it did, the Caucasian Lenin, Stepan Shahumian, tried to win power for the people democratically and nonviolently. The story of the Baku Commune he built provides an important perspective on the Russian Revolution and the subsequent civil war.
- Mongol Invasions
- Romanov Dynasty
- Lenin, The Bolsheviks and Rise of The Soviet Union
- Gorbachev Introduces Reforms
- Soviet Union Falls
862: The first major East Slavic state, Kievan Rus, is founded and led by the Viking Oleg of Novgorod(although some historians dispute this account). Kiev becomes the capital 20 years later. 980-1015: Prince Vladimir the Great, who converts from paganism to Orthodox Christianity, rules the Rurik dynasty while spreading his newfound religion. His so...
1613: After several years of unrest, famine, civil war and invasions, Mikhail Romanov is coronated as czar at age 16, ending a long period of instability. The Romanov dynastywill rule Russia for three centuries. 1689-1725: Peter the Great rules until his death, building a new capital in St. Petersburg, modernizing the military (and founding the Rus...
Nov. 6-7, 1917: The violent Russian Revolution marks the end of the Romanov dynasty and Russian Imperial Rule, as the Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Lenin, take power and eventually become the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Civil War breaks out later that year, with Lenin’s Red Army claiming victory and the establishment of the Soviet Union. Len...
March 11, 1985: Mikhail Gorbachev is elected general secretary of the Communist Party, and, thus, effectively Russia’s leader. His reform efforts include perestroika (restructuring the Russian economy), glasnost (greater openness) and summit talks with U.S. President Ronald Reaganto end the Cold War. In 1990, he is elected president, the same year ...
Dec. 25, 1991: Following an unsuccessful Communist Party coup, the Soviet Union is dissolved and Gorbachev resigns. With Ukraine and Belarus, Russia forms the Commonwealth of Independent States, which most former Soviet republics eventually join. Yeltsin begins lifting Communist-imposed price controls and reforms, and, in 1993, signed the START II ...
Apr 26, 2012 · Russia profile - Timeline. A chronology of key events: 9th century - Founding of Kievan Rus, the first major East Slavic state. The traditional account, a matter of debate among historians ...
The German Foreign Ministry rejected the idea of joint administration in Baku. The German Foreign Minister Paul von Hintze notified the German Chancellor that according to the Supreme Military Command, Baku should remain in the hands of the Russians, and the advancements of the Turks should be resisted by all means; and Germany should try to ...
A Russian chronicle makes the first mention of the marauding Polovtsy, who persistently raid Russian cities from the steppes
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On 13 June 1796, a Russian flotilla entered Baku Bay, and a garrison of Russian troops was placed inside the city. Later, however, Pavel I ordered the cessation of the campaign and the withdrawal of Russian forces following the death of his predecessor, Yekatarina II .
