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Early Russian History
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Russia Today
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Former Soviet Region Compared in Latitude Area
with the United States
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Russias Time Zones
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Topography of Russia
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Siberia ? Permafrost

• Average temperatures of January vary from 0
  to -50C, and in July from 1 to 25C
• 150,000,000 population.

• A former gulag Soviet prison camp.

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Themes in Russian History

• Expansion by conquest.
• Need for warm-water ports.
• The necessity of a strong, central government.

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Early Russia
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Early Byzantine InfluencesOrthodox Christianity
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Early Byzantine InfluencesOrthodox Christianity
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Early Byzantine InfluencesCyrillic Alphabet
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Novgorod
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Russian Boyars
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Russian Expansion
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The Mongols Invade Russia
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Ivan the Great (r. 1462-1505)
Ivan III Tearing the Great Khans Letter
Requesting More Tribute in 1480.
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The Rise of Russia
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Russia in the Late 1500s
Ivan The Terrible(r. 1533-1584)
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Michael Romanov (r. 1613-1645)

• The Romanov dynasty is established.
• The only Russian royal family ? lasted for 304
  years!

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Romanov Dynasty(1613-1917)
Romanov Family Crest
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Romanov Dynasty(1613-1917)
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The Pendulum of Russian History
Pro-WestFor Progress ChangeEncourage New
Ideas,Technologies, etc.
Anti-WestIsolationistXenophobicUltra-Conservati
ve

• Most Tsars
• Russian Orthodox Church
• Military
• Boyars
• peasants

• A few Tsars
• Intellectual elites
• Merchants/businessmen
• Young members of the middle class.

REFORM-MINDEDLEADER
DEMAGOGUE
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Peter the Great (r. 1682-1725)
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Peter Cuts the Beards of His Boyars
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Execution of the Streltsy
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Battle of Poltava (1709)
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Russia Sweden After the Great Northern War
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Russia Under Peter I