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    (reigned 18941917), the Russian Empire slowly industrialized while repressing opposition from the center and the far-left. During the 1890s Russia's industrial...
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    Imperial Russia: a source book, 1700–1917 (Dryden Press, 1974) Vernadsky, George, and Sergeĭ Germanovich Pushkarev, eds. A Source Book for Russian History from...
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    ten years 1917–1927 saw a radical transformation of the Russian Empire into a socialist state, the Soviet Union. Soviet Russia covers 1917–1922 and Soviet...
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    in October [November, N.S.] 1917. According to Harold Whitmore Williams, the history of the eight months during which Russia was ruled by the Provisional...
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    of the former Russian Empire after its proclamation by the Russian Provisional Government on 1 September (14 September, N.S.Tooltip New Style) 1917 in...
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    as the March Revolution, was the first of two revolutions which took place in Russia in 1917. The main events of the revolution took place in and near...
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    outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Russia. The Russian Federation, commonly known as Russia, is the most extensive country in the...
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    The history of Russia begins with the histories of the East Slavs. The traditional start date of specifically Russian history is the establishment of the...
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    (March 1, 1881 — October 20, 1894) Nicholas II (October 20, 1894 — March 2, 1917) Georgy Lvov (March 2 (15) — July 8 (21), 1917) Alexander Kerensky (July...
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    This is a timeline of Russian history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Russia and its predecessor states. To...
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    synthesis of much Western and Russian scholarship. Lieven, Dominic, ed. The Cambridge History of Russia: Volume 2, Imperial Russia, 1689–1917 (2015) Lieven...
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    reigning Emperor of Russia, King of Congress Poland, and Grand Duke of Finland from 1 November 1894 until his abdication on 15 March 1917. During his reign...
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    (1881–1894) was less liberal but more peaceful. Under last Russian emperor, Nicholas II (18941917), the Revolution of 1905 was triggered by the failure of...
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    independent from Russia and remained so thereafter. The Russian Empire ceased to exist, and the Russian SFSR, 1917–1991, was established on much of its territory...
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    Russias, was the official title of the Russian monarch from 1721 to 1917. The title originated in connection with Russia's victory in the Great Northern War...
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    simply Russia, was an independent federal socialist state from 1917 to 1922, and afterwards the largest and most populous constituent republic of the Soviet...
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    From 1711 to 1917, the Governing Senate was the highest legislative, judicial, and executive body subordinate to the Russian emperors. The senate was...
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    Louise of Hesse-Kassel. Maria’s eldest son, Nicholas, was the last Emperor of Russia, ruling from 1 November 1894 until his abdication on 15 March 1917. Maria...
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    The military history of Russia has antecedents involving Kievan Rus' and the Rus' principalities that succeeded it, the Mongol invasion of the early 13th...
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    monarchy in February 1917, she fled Russia, eventually settling in the United Kingdom. Her great-grandson Alexis Romanoff has been a head of the Romanov Family...
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    The history of Soviet Russia and the Soviet Union (USSR) reflects a period of change for both Russia and the world. Though the terms "Soviet Russia" and...
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    History of Russia (1721–96) is the history of Russia during the Era of Russian palace revolutions and the Age of Catherine the Great. It began with creation...
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    alliance: France, Russia, and the coming of the First World War (1984) ; covers 1890 to 1894. Keiger, John F. V. (1983). France and the origins of the First World...
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    grandchild of Nicholas I of Russia. He was buried there in Roquebrune. His wife, Xenia, died in Hampton Court Palace in 1960. While in exile after 1917, he became...
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    mandarins, and commissars: a history of Chinese-Russian relations (1973) Shen, Zhihua. A Short History of Sino-Soviet Relations, 1917–1991 (Springer Singapore;Palgrave...
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    was the last Empress of Russia as the consort of Emperor Nicholas II from their marriage on 26 November [O.S. 14 November] 1894 until his forced abdication...
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    "all the people of all the towns of all the great Russian Tsardom". Walter G. Moss. A History of Russia Volume 1: To 1917. Anthem Press, 2003. p. 207 Readings...
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    from a depth of 13.5 metres (44 ft). From late 1917 Volkhov participated in the Russian Civil War, serving the submarines of the Russian Baltic Fleet...
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    State Bank of the Russian Empire (Russian: Государственный банк Российской Империи) was the dominant financial institution of the Russian Empire following...
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    The modern history of Russia began with the Russian Republic of the Soviet Union gaining more political and economical autonomy amidst the imminent dissolution...
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