History of Russia Questions

Old Believer, Russian Starover, member of a group of Russian religious dissenters who refused to accept the liturgical reforms imposed upon the Russian Orthodox Church by the patriarch of Moscow Nikon (1652-58).

Novgorod's size as well as its political, economic, and cultural influence made it the

expansion of territory, sped military, strengthened hitler's power, and balanced power changed in germany's power

it was fueled by bitter dissapointment over the failure to win large territorial gains at the 1919 paris peace conference. also rising inflation and unemployment

According to a custom, the elder son and heir of the ruling Kievan monarch was sent

communists wrongly believed they could control hitler and advised president paul von hinderburg to name hitler chancellor

Russia was unprepared to handle the military and economic costs. While Nicholas rallied troops, his wife ruled the country. She fell under the influence of Rasputin. Soldiers mutinied, Prices inflated, and people clamored for change.

Lenin had based his Marxist revolution on his organization in Russia's cities. Mao envisioned a different setting. He believed he could bring revolution to a rural country where the peasants could be the true revolutionaries

germans were "aryans" and the "master race" everyone else was inferior, he also wanted territory

he sent troops to stop rebellion. he also created a policy deliberately causing mass starvation resulting in the deaths of millions

In 882, Rurik's successor, Oleg of Novgorod, conquered Kiev and

Russia more than doubled their factories and to finance the build up of Russian industries, the government sought foreign investors and lasted raised taxes

In 1619 Michael's father, who had been forced to become a monk under the name Philaret (Filaret) in 1601 and had later been taken to Poland, was released from captivity.

From the 9th to the 11th centuries, coastal Balts were subjected to raids by the Vikings

There was a law stating they had to deny any existence of a famine and refuse any outside assistance. Anyone claiming otherwise, was accused of spreading anti-soviet propaganda

abolished democracy and outlawed all political parties except Fascists with government censors

Lenin organized Russia into self-governing republics under the central government in an effort to keep nationalism in check. this centralized power and unified the country

Lenin signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk and it triggered widespread anger among many Russians who objected to the Bolsheviks, their policies and the murder of the royal family. These opponents comprised of czar rule, democratic, and socialist but different from Lenin's, and formed the White army. The only common thread holding them together was their desire and divisiveness, weakened their position against the Red Army

On January 22, 1905, about 200,000 workers and their families carried a petition asking for better working conditions, more personal freedom, and an elected national legislation, to the czar's winter palace in St. Petersburg. Nicholas II's generals ordered soldiers to fire on the crowd and left over 1,000 wounded and several hundred killed. Nicholas eventually approved the Duma. They wanted to become a constitutional monarchy, but he was hesitant to share his power, and the czar dissolved the Duma after 10 weeks

25,000 people in Ukraine died each day during the height of the famine, villages were perishing