• (reigned 18941917), the Russian Empire slowly industrialized while repressing opposition from the center and the far-left. During the 1890s Russia's industrial...
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  • ten years 1917–1927 saw a radical transformation of the Russian Empire into a socialist state, the Soviet Union. Soviet Russia covers 1917–1922 and Soviet...
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    reign as Tsar of Russia and presided over a period of political and social reform, notably the emancipation of serfs in 1861 and the lifting of censorship...
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    of the former Russian Empire after its proclamation by the Russian Provisional Government on 1 September (14 September, N.S.Tooltip New Style) 1917 in...
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    Revolution or February Coup was the first of two revolutions which took place in Russia in 1917. The main events of the revolution took place in and near...
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    in October [November, N.S.] 1917. According to Harold Whitmore Williams, the history of the eight months during which Russia was ruled by the Provisional...
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    is a list of rulers of Kievan Rus', the Tsardom of Russia, the Russian Empire, the Russian Republic, the Soviet Union, and the modern Russian Federation...
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    outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Russia. The Russian Federation, commonly known as Russia, is the most extensive country in the...
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  • History of Russia (1721–96) is the history of Russia during the Era of Russian palace revolutions and the Age of Catherine the Great. It began with creation...
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  • This is a timeline of Russian history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Russia and its predecessor states. To...
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    The history of Russia begins with the histories of the East Slavs. The traditional start date of specifically Russian history is the establishment of the...
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    Romanov (dynasty) in Russia (1613–1917). Nicholas II was deeply devoted to his wife, Alexandra, whom he married on 26 November 1894. They had five children:...
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    Soviet Russia, was an independent federal socialist state from 1917 to 1922, and afterwards the largest and most populous constituent republic of the Soviet...
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  • The period from 1796 to 1855 in Russian history (covering the reigns of Paul I, Alexander I and Nicholas I) saw the Napoleonic Wars, government reform...
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    Emperor of Russia, King of Congress Poland, and Grand Duke of Finland from 1 November 1894 until his abdication on 15 March 1917. He married Alix of Hesse...
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    Alexander III (1881–1894) was less liberal but more peaceful. Under last Russian emperor, Nicholas II (18941917), the Revolution of 1905 was triggered...
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    Louise of Hesse-Kassel. Maria’s eldest son, Nicholas, was the last Emperor of Russia, ruling from 1 November 1894 until his abdication on 15 March 1917. Maria...
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    autocrat of all the Russias, was the official title of the Russian monarch from 1721 to 1917. The title originated in connection with Russia's victory...
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    independent from Russia and remained so thereafter. The Russian Empire ceased to exist, and the Russian SFSR, 1917–1991, was established on much of its territory...
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    From 1711 to 1917, the Governing Senate was the highest legislative, judicial, and executive body subordinate to the Russian emperors. The senate was...
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    Russian Turkestan (Russian: Русский Туркестан, romanized: Russkiy Turkestan) was the western part of Turkestan within the Russian Empire’s Central Asian...
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    alliance: France, Russia, and the coming of the First World War (1984) ; covers 1890 to 1894. Keiger, John F. V. (1983). France and the origins of the First World...
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    established diplomatic relations with the Russian Empire in 1780. Diplomatic relations were broken off in 1917 when the Bolsheviks seized power, and they...
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    mandarins, and commissars: a history of Chinese-Russian relations (1973) Shen, Zhihua. A Short History of Sino-Soviet Relations, 1917–1991 (Springer Singapore;Palgrave...
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    Russian studies is an interdisciplinary field crossing politics, history, culture, economics, and languages of Russia and its neighborhood, often grouped...
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    The military history of Russia has antecedents involving Kievan Rus' and the Rus' principalities that succeeded it, the Mongol invasion of the early 13th...
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    (Russian: Александр III Александрович Романов, romanized: Aleksandr III Aleksandrovich Romanov; 10 March 1845 – 1 November 1894) was Emperor of Russia...
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    Mikhailovich of Russia in the history of the Hotel Carlton". Grand Hotels of the World. N. Berezovsky, VD Dotsenko, VP Tyurin. Russian Imperial Navy. 1696–1917. Moscow...
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  • Канонизация святых в 18941917 гг. [Canonization of Saints by the Russian Orthodox Church – 5. Canonization of Saints from 18941917] (in Russian). Азбука веры...
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    was a revolution in Russia led by the Bolshevik Party of Vladimir Lenin that was a key moment in the larger Russian Revolution of 1917–1923. It was the second...
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