Steppe Region

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Steppe Region
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Prince Vladimir I
Admired Byzantine culture became Orthodox
Christians
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Mongol Invasion
By 1240 Russia part of the Mongol Empire had to
pay tribute through taxes
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Ivan III Known as Ivan the Great Stopped paying
tribute and declared himself leader of Russia

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Ivan IV Ivan the Terrible
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• The Romanovs
• Michael Romanov comes into power after the Time
  of Troubles (years of wars and revolts) -- 1613
• Family remained in power for 304 years
• Peter the Great became czar in 1682 modernizes
  Russia and looks to the West for trade and
  development

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Catherine the Great
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Russian Peasants
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Romanov Family
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A Land of Contrasts
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• Nicholas II becomes czar in 1894 he will be the
  last Russian czar
• Russia badly beaten in the 1904-1905 with Japan
  leads to Bloody Sunday

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1917 Riots Food and fuel shortages due to WW I
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Vladimir Lenin Promoted Communism
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• History of the Soviet Union Leadership

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Vladimir Lenin
Joseph Stalin
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Leonid Brezhnev
Nikita Khrushchev
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Vladimir Putin
Mikhail Gorbachev
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Vladimir Putin
Dmitry Medvedev