Role
- General Secretary of Communist Party (1922�1953)
- Absolute ruler of USSR after lenin
Policies
- Forced collectivization
- Five-Year Plans
- Great Purge
Events
- WWII leadership
- NKVD, Gulag system
- Cold War beginnings
Legacy
- Industrialized USSR
- Millions dead
- Shaped postwar global order
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Set-Content -Path ‘lenin.md’ -Value @‘
title: Vladimir Lenin aliases: [] tags: [russia, revolution, soviet union]
Role
- Leader of russian revolution
- Founder of Soviet Union
- Head of Bolshevik Party
Ideas
- Vanguard party
- Dictatorship of the proletariat
Legacy
- Created USSR
- Influenced all communist movements
- Power vacuum led to stalin
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Set-Content -Path ‘ivan the terrible.md’ -Value @‘
title: Ivan the Terrible aliases: [Ivan IV] tags: [russia, tsardom, monarchy]
Timeline
- Ruled 1547�1584
Role
- First Tsar of Russia
- Centralized autocracy
Events
- Oprichnina: secret police terror
- Conquest of Kazan and Astrakhan
- Death of heir ? time of troubles
Legacy
- Ruthless but transformative
- Feared and mythologized
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Set-Content -Path ‘time of troubles.md’ -Value @‘
title: Time of Troubles aliases: [] tags: [russia, dynastic crisis]
Timeline
- 1598�1613
Events
- Death of ivan the terrible�s heir
- False Dmitris
- Polish�Lithuanian invasion
Resolution
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Set-Content -Path ‘soviet union.md’ -Value @‘
title: Soviet Union aliases: [USSR] tags: [russia, communism, 20th-century]
Timeline
- 1922�1991
Founding
- Post-russian revolution
- Led by lenin, then stalin
Features
- Planned economy
- One-party state
- Cold War with the West
Collapse
- 1991 dissolution under Gorbachev/Yeltsin
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Set-Content -Path ‘cold war.md’ -Value @‘
title: Cold War aliases: [] tags: [usa, ussr, global]
Timeline
- 1947�1991
Sides
- Capitalist West (NATO) vs. Communist East (Warsaw Pact)
Features
- Arms race, space race
- Proxy wars: Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan
Collapse
- Fall of soviet union
- End of bipolar world
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Set-Content -Path ‘vladimir putin.md’ -Value @‘
title: Vladimir Putin aliases: [] tags: [russia, modern]
Role
- President (2000�2008, 2012� ), Prime Minister (1999�2000, 2008�2012)
Policies
- Centralization of power
- Silencing dissent
- Assertive foreign policy
Events
- Chechen wars
- Crimea annexation (2014)
- Ukraine invasion (2022)
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= Romanov Tsars =
$romanovs = @( ‘michael i’, ‘alexis i’, ‘feodor iii’, ‘ivan v’, ‘peter i the great’, ‘catherine i’, ‘peter ii’, ‘anna of russia’, ‘ivan vi’, ‘elizabeth of russia’, ‘peter iii’, ‘catherine ii the great’, ‘paul i’, ‘alexander i’, ‘nicholas i’, ‘alexander ii’, ‘alexander iii’, ‘nicholas ii’ )