The History of Russia & Eurasian Republics

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Vladimir Putin Elected

Dec 30, 1999

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. ...

Glasnost/Perestroika

Jun 1985

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...

Perestroika & Glasnost

1984

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...

WWII - German Invasion of Russia

May 31, 1941

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 ...

USSR Created

Dec 28, 1922

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...

Napoleon's Invasion of Russia

Dec 31, 1811

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...

Mongols Invade Russia/Batu Khan

Dec 31, 1222

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...