1. History and Governments
Russia

2. Rise of Russia Moscovy become the dominate group.
Ivan III expanded the realm
Created the nation of Russia.
Ivan IV rules (Ivan the Terrible)
Established the czar (supreme ruler/god on earth)
Absolute monarchy (Autocracy)
Used Secret Police
Expanded the territory to non-Slavs
Felt Nobles had killed wife

3. Romanovs Peter “the Great” Catherine the Great
Enlarged the territory
Westernization
Built up the military
Developed trade Europe
Moved capital to St. Petersburg
Catherine the Great
Expanded Empire
Got warm water port on Black Sea.
Alexander III expanded Russia
Took parts of Siberia
Created the Trans-Siberian Railroad
From Moscow to Vladivostok

4. Causes Russian Revolution
Czar Alexander III
Continued Russian as official language
Strict censorship
Pogroms
Watched schools and universities
Forced rapid industrialization
With negative side effects

5. Soviet Era The communist era begins with: Bolsheviks vs Mensheviks
Japan defeats Russia
Abdication by Nicholas II
Russian exit of World War I
Provisional democratic government
Bolsheviks vs Mensheviks
Lenin leads Bolsheviks
Mensheviks backed by US and Britain
Communist win: want to spread doctrine

6. Stalin takes power Lenin dies; Stalin vs Trotsky
Stalin wins: Trotsky dies in exile
Controls Russia with iron fist
Establishes secret police
Set up gulags
Indoctrination
censorship
Glorification of the state
Command economy
Denies basic liberties.

7. Cold War Ideas Soviet Union United States Economic System---Communism
Government--- Totalitarian Dictatorship
Place in World--- Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Goal --- Worldwide revolution
Economic System--- Capitalism
Government--- Democracy
Place in the world--- Western Europe and North America
Goal--- Containment

8. Fall of Communism Problems in Communism Mikhail Gorbachev’s idea:
Working class poor
Communist rulers with privileges
Mikhail Gorbachev’s idea:
Perestroika-economic restructuring
Glasnost—more freedom in politics.
States break away from the Soviet Union
15 new countries formed; create Commonwealth of Independent States.

9. New Russia Russia changed the economy Vladimir Putin reform:
Moved from command economy to market economy
Causing unemployment and inflation
Vladimir Putin reform:
Reformed labor
Banking
Private property

10. Paragraph
What three people most influenced Russia? Why?