Russian history
Soviet past studies
The history of Russia, from medieval Kievan Rus through the Mongol invasions, the rise of Muscovy, the Romanov dynasty, the 1917 Revolution, Soviet era, and post-Soviet period.
As a field of study, Russian history encompasses political upheaval, territorial expansion, autocratic rule, and cycles of reform and repression: She's writing her dissertation on Russian history.
The phrase sometimes implies dramatic or violent political intrigue: The boardroom coup was straight out of Russian history.
- MoscowRussia's capital city
- Red SquareMoscow's central plaza
- Bolshevik Revolution1917 communist coup in Russia
- gulagsSoviet penal colonies
- Soviet UnionFormer communist superstate
Time of Troubles · serfdom · Peter the Great · Nicholas II · Bloody Sunday · Catherine the Great · Napoleonic Wars · Ivan the Terrible · Red Army · White Army · Lenin · collectivization · Siberia · Stalinism · secret police · Great Purge · Trans-Siberian Railway · Crimean War
- historyancient civilizations, past events, historian, epochs, era
- RussiaRussia, Moscow, Kremlin, Red Square, Siberia
- Eastern European historycommunist era, Prague Spring, interwar period, iron curtain, collectivization
- language textbooksgrammar drills, grammar exercises, vocabulary lists, grammar lessons, verb tables
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