History of Russia

The History of Russia begins with that of the Eastern Slavs and the Finno-Ugric peoples.
The traditional beginning of Russian history is 862 A.D. Kievan Rus', the first united East Slavic state, was founded in 882. The state adopted Christianity from the Byzantine Empire in 988 ... The Russian Revolution in 1917 was triggered by a combination of economic breakdown, war-weariness, and discontent with the autocratic system of government, and it first brought a coalition of liberals and moderate socialists to power, but their failed policies led to seizure of power by the Communist Bolsheviks on 25 October. Between 1922 and 1991, the history of Russia is essentially the history of the Soviet Union, effectively an ideologically based state which was roughly conterminous with the Russian Empire before the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. The approach to the building of socialism, however, varied over different periods in Soviet history, from the mixed economy and diverse society and culture of the 1920s to the command economy and repressions of the Joseph Stalin era to the "era of stagnation" in the 1980s. From its first years, government in the Soviet Union was based on the one-party rule of the Communists, as the Bolsheviks called themselves, beginning in March 1918.
By the mid-1980s, with the weaknesses of its economic and political structures becoming acute, Mikhail Gorbachev embarked on major reforms, which led to the overthrow of the Communist party and the breakup of the USSR, leaving Russia again on its own and marking the start of the History of post-Soviet Russia. The Russian Federation began in January 1992 as the legal successor to the USSR. Russia retained its nuclear arsenal but lost its superpower status. Scrapping the socialist central planning and state ownership of property of the socialist era, new leaders, led by President Vladimir Putin, took political and economic power after 2000 and engaged in an energetic foreign policy. Russia's treatment of Ukraine led to severe economic sanctions imposed by the United States and the European Union.
In this application you will read about:
Prehistory
Early history
Antiquity
Early East Slavs
Kievan Rus' (882 - 1283)
Mongol invasion (1223 - 1240)
Russo-Tatar relations
Grand Duchy of Moscow (1283 - 1547)
Rise of Moscow
Ivan III, the Great
Tsardom of Russia (1547 - 1721)
Ivan IV, the Terrible
Time of Troubles
Accession of the Romanovs and early rule
Imperial Russia (1721 - 1917)
Population
Peter the Great
Ruling the Empire (1725 - 1825)
State budget
18th - 20th centuries (before the Soviet years)
Founding Russian ballet
Catherine the Great
Alexander I
Nicholas I and the Decembrist Revolt
The Russian Army
Radicals and reactionaries
Alexander II and the abolition of serfdom
Nihilism
Autocracy and reaction under Alexander III
Nicholas II and new revolutionary movement
Revolution of 1905
World War I
Russian Revolution
Russian Civil War
Soviet Union (1922 - 1991)
Creation of the Soviet Union
War Communism and the New Economic Policy
Changes to Russian society
Industrialization and Collectivization
Soviet Union on the international stage
World War II
Cold War
De-Stalinization and the era of stagnation
Breakup of the Union
Russian Federation (1991 - present)