A Dangerously Oversimplified Outline of Russian History

Kievan Russia 9^th - 13^th centuries

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Riurik

Vladimir

Economy: Manorial + Commercial

Obshchina

Social Structure: Princes, Boyars, Merchants, Artisans,

Smerdy, Semi-Free Peasants, Slaves

Political Systems: Feudal? Monarchical (Prince), Oligarchical (boyar duma),

& “Democratic” (veche)

The Mongol Yoke 13^th - 15^th centuries

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The Rise of Muscovy 15^th - 16^th centuries

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Ivan I, Dmitrii Donskoi, Vasilii I, Vasilii II, Vasilii III, Ivan III (tsar)

The Third Rome

The Crisis of the 16^th & 17^th centuries

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*Ivan IV “The Terrible” 1533-1584

The Time of Troubles 1598-1613

The Romanovs 1613-1917

Serfdom

Imperial Russia 17^th – 19^th centuries

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*Peter the Great 1689-1725

*Catherine the Great 1762-1796

Alexander I 1801-1825

Nicholas I 1825-1855

Alexander II 1855-1881

Alexander III 1881-1894

Nicholas II 1894-1917

Second Semester Topics:

Russian Revolutions 1905-1917

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*1905 Revolution

Duma Period

World War I

*February Revolution

*October Revolution

Soviet Russia 1917-1991

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Lenin 1917-1924

Civil War

NEP

*Stalin Revolution 1928-1953

World War II

Cold War

Khrushchev 1956-1964

Brezhnev 1964-1982

Andropov & Chernenko 1982-1985

*Gorbachev 1985-1991

Your Russia 1991-?

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*Yeltsin 1991-2000

*Putin 2000-2008

Medvedev 2008-