History of Russia

История Россииc as History of russia in english is an muti language application

The History of Russia begins with that of the Eastern Slavs and the Finno-Ugric peoples.

The traditional beginning of Russian history is 862 A.D. Kievan Rus', the first united East Slavic state, was founded in 882. The state adopted Christianity from the Byzantine Empire in 988 ... The Russian Revolution in 1917 was triggered by a combination of economic breakdown, war-weariness, and discontent with the autocratic system of government, and it first brought a coalition of liberals and moderate socialists to power, but their failed policies led to seizure of power by the Communist Bolsheviks on 25 October. Between 1922 and 1991, the history of Russia is essentially the history of the Soviet Union, effectively an ideologically based state which was roughly conterminous with the Russian Empire before the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. The approach to the building of socialism, however, varied over different periods in Soviet history, from the mixed economy and diverse society and culture of the 1920s to the command economy and repressions of the Joseph Stalin era to the "era of stagnation" in the 1980s. From its first years, government in the Soviet Union was based on the one-party rule of the Communists, as the Bolsheviks called themselves, beginning in March 1918.

By the mid-1980s, with the weaknesses of its economic and political structures becoming acute, Mikhail Gorbachev embarked on major reforms, which led to the overthrow of the Communist party and the breakup of the USSR, leaving Russia again on its own and marking the start of the History of post-Soviet Russia. The Russian Federation began in January 1992 as the legal successor to the USSR. Russia retained its nuclear arsenal but lost its superpower status. Scrapping the socialist central planning and state ownership of property of the socialist era, new leaders, led by President Vladimir Putin, took political and economic power after 2000 and engaged in an energetic foreign policy. Russia's treatment of Ukraine led to severe economic sanctions imposed by the United States and the European Union.

In this application you will read about:

Prehistory

Early history

Antiquity

Early East Slavs

Kievan Rus' (882–1283)

Mongol invasion (1223–1240)

Russo-Tatar relations

Grand Duchy of Moscow (1283–1547)

Rise of Moscow

Ivan III, the Great

Tsardom of Russia (1547–1721)

Ivan IV, the Terrible

Time of Troubles

Accession of the Romanovs and early rule

Imperial Russia (1721–1917)

Population

Peter the Great

Ruling the Empire (1725–1825)

State budget

18th–20th centuries (before the Soviet years)

Founding Russian ballet

Catherine the Great

Alexander I

Nicholas I and the Decembrist Revolt

The Russian Army

Radicals and reactionaries

Alexander II and the abolition of serfdom

Nihilism

Autocracy and reaction under Alexander III

Nicholas II and new revolutionary movement

Revolution of 1905

World War I

Russian Revolution

Russian Civil War

Soviet Union (1922–1991)

Creation of the Soviet Union

War Communism and the New Economic Policy

Changes to Russian society

Industrialization and Collectivization

Soviet Union on the international stage

World War II

Cold War

De-Stalinization and the era of stagnation

Breakup of the Union

Russian Federation (1991–present)