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Vladimir Putin was the second President of Russia Federation officially from 2000-2008 and is right now the Prime Minister of United Russia. During his rule the country came back from the low GDP. ...
During the down fall of the USSR in 1989, Chechnya tried to declare itself a Former Soviet Republic. From 1989 to 1991, political parties from Chechnya tried to negotiate with the Russian governmen...
The CIS is an international organization or alliance made up of eleven former Soviet Republics and and one associate member. The eleven members are Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan...
Boris Yeltsin was the first president of the Russian Federation, he was in office from July 10, 1991 to December 31, 1999. Yeltsin was the first president to be elected by popular vote. The Yeltsin...
In 1990, the Soviet Union itself began to unravel. Its own constituent republics began to issue declarations of independence. In the Russian Republic, Yeltsin was elected chairman of the Parliament...
By 1990, Soviet people were becoming displeased with how communism was working. Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania broke free of the Soviet Union beginning the process of dismantling of the Soviet emp...
Chernobyl was one of the worst nuclear power plant accidents in history. It was just about a level seven on a nuclear event scale, which level seven is the worst level. What happened is it started ...
Soviet Union leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, created two reforms, Glasnost and Perestroika. Glasnost was the reform to openness and maximal publicity. Before this time, the Soviets used to be secluded a...
Instituted by new leader Mikhail Gorbachev, he believed major changes needed to be made in order to allow for the USSR survival. He instituted two policies. One called perestroika, or restructuri...
During the 1980 Olympics (Lake Placid), the Soviet hockey team was the heavily favored team to win the Olympics. Even though the Olympic Committee forbid using professional players the Soviet gove...
In 1979 the USSR took control of Kabul, the Afghanistan capital, and tried to gain control of entire country and people. The reason the Soviets sent troops into the capital was to expand their infl...
President Nixon was the first president to visit the Soviet Union. He went to the Soviet Union to have a meeting with Leonid Brezhnev. At this meeting they made agreements to increase trade between...
The Cuba Missile Crisis was the closest thing to the world having a Nuclear War. The U.S. had missile that could wipe out the entire USSR while the Soviets were only capable of attacking Europe. Th...
On April 1, 1952 East German leaders met with the Soviet Union leader Joseph Stalin. Stalin and the East German leaders proposed that they should create a system of past ports for West Germans into...
On October 4th, 1957, the Soviet Union launched the first ever man-made satellite to orbit the earth, named Sputnik. Sputnik traveled at 29,000 kilmeters per hour, and submitted radio signals at 20...
The intelligence and internal-security agency of the former Soviet Union, was organized in 1954. The KGB were almost part of everything the soviet had such as: propaganda, secret operations, gettin...
Stalin died without naming an heir putting an end to the Stalin era. Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971) rose after the death of Stalin in 1953. he tried to reform the industry and doing so created even ...
With the outbreak of the Second World War, Russia and its leader Joseph Stalin were unprepared, as most of its expirenced military leadership had been fired. Production was also slow in converting ...
Came to power in 1927 determined to make the Soviet Union a world industrial power. He took control over every aspect of Soviet life, causing thousands to die and others forced to labor camps. He...
The Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) otherwise known as the Soviet Union existed from 1922 to 1991. This was a constitution the existed in Eurasia that emerged from the Russian Empire...
After Stalin took control of the government and economy of Russia, not everyone agreed with him. War broke out between the Reds (Bolsheviks) and the Whites (Anti-Bolsheviks). The Bolsheviks won t...
Also known as the October Revolution. It was the second part of Russian Revolution of 1917.After the Febuary Revolution The October Revolution overthrew Russian Provisional Government and gave pow...
Leader of the Bolshevik Revolution. Moved the capital from St. Petersburg to Moscow. Promised the Russian people "peace, land, and bread." Based philosophy on the teachings of Karl Marx. Took c...
During WWI there were many hardships faced by the Russian people. Food, clothing, and fuel were all in short supply. Striking factory workers demanded "bread and freedom" and overtook the city of...
Leonid Brezhnev was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union(therefore he was the political leader of the USSR) from 1964 to 1982. He served in that position longer than any...
The Russo-Japanese War was a war between Japan and Russia. Russia wanted to expand its power throughout the east. Russia tried to take control of Korea and Japan, afraid that the Russian Empire was...
Karl Heinrich Marx (May 5, 1818 – March 14, 1883) was a 19th century philosopher, political economist, and revolutionary. Often called the father of communism, Marx was both a scholar and a politic...
Napoleon began his fatal Russian campaign; virtually all of Europe was under his control. The attempt was to force Tsar Alexander I to sign the treaty that Napoleon had imposed on him 4 years earli...
Catherine was crowned at the age of 32. She was not born Russian but she did have distant relatives that lived there. During her time of power, Catherine extended the Southwestern Russia border int...
In 1696 he took control after his dad died.Peter remained monarch and brought in the greatest engineers, architects, shipbuilders and merchants to create his vew of Russia. Europe had begun to gre...
First when Russification happened in the 16th Century to conquer the what is now today Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan to implement the Russian language as the main language throughout the continent. In ...
Ivan the Great ruled form 1462-1505. Ivan succeeded in freeing Russia from the Mongols (Tatars). In this act of Ivan freeing Russia, the Mogols were bound to retaliate. This never led to a battle. ...
Before the Battle of Kulikovo, much of Russia was ruled by Mongol leaders. The Khan of the Golden Horde, wanted to limit the Growth and influence of the neighboring contries, Lituania. Which led t...
Muscovy was the beginning of Russia as a whole. This area was settled by Slavs who were fleeing from the Mongols (Tartars) who controlled much of Russia. Many Slavs hid in nearby forests when ...
In 1223 the Mongol armies attacked the southeast territory of Russia. Under the Genghis Khan’s leadership the Mongol did not win against the Russian princes and went back to Asia. Fourteen years la...
During this perid many peasents became homless and settled on the land of wealthy Russians or nobles. By the end of the 16th century the peasents were under control of the landowner, much like slav...
Vladimir I, the Grand Duke of Kiev chose to change the main religion to Greek Orthdoxy and later, Christianity. He left Kiev in order to save his life. Later his brother took over Kiev and in order...
The Varangians are Swedish vanguards or sharers in the oath, who traveled eastward to Russia for travel and activities. One of the top vanguard chieftains named Rurik, gained control of Ladoga in 8...
These warriors from Scandinavia settled in the area near the Dneiper and Volga rivers. They became known as Kievan Rus. They set up the first state in the region near modern day Kiev. By the 900...
