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History of Russia (347-351)
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03/13/2017

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Kiev
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Capital of Ukraine
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Ivan III
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Prince of Moscow who was the first true national leader of a united Russia
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Ivan IV
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Ivan the Terrible
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Michael Romanov
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Began the Romanov dynasty which lasted for over 300 years
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Peter the Great
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Built the town of St. Petersburg to "westernize" Russia
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Catherine the Great
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Russian empress who embraced western ideas and actively promoted the arts and science
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Alexander I
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Successfully led Russia in the struggle against Napoleon
Russia became the largest country in the world by Alexander's death
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Nicholas I
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Faced trouble during the Decembrist Revolt
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Alexander II
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The Czar Liberator who freed the serfs
Was assassinated
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Alexander III
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Imposed strict censorship of press, blamed the Jews for his father's assassination, and subjected them to massacres called pogroms
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Nicholas II
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A weak ruler who lost most prestige after Russia lost the Russo-Japanese War
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Bloody Sunday
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On January 22, 1905, a priest and the large crowd who presented a petition were shot by troops
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Duma
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An elected legislative body with limited powers established by Nicholas II after Bloody Sunday
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Provisional Government
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Set up by the Duma to resemble a Western representative democracy
Led by Alexander Kerensky, the leader of Russia's Labor Party
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Vladimir Lenin
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The most dangerous Communist revolutionary in Russia
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Mensheviks
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Wanted a broad party membership that included socialists and liberal democrats and advocated more peaceful methods for social change
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Bolsheviks
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Followed Lenin's theory of a party restricted to professional revolutionaries
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Leon Trotsky
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Lenin's chief henchman who was a Russian Jew
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Red Guards
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Lenin's Bolshevik military force
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Bolshevik Revolution
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On November 6-7, 1917, this toppled the Provisional Government
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Cheka
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Lenin's secret police that forced the people under Communism by arrest, imprisonment, torture, or death
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