Preface

Early History

1. Antiquity
2. Early East Slavs
3. Kievan Rus'
4. Mongol Invasion
5. Volga Bulgaria
6. Golden Horde
7. Russian Orthodox Church

Ancient Russian girl by Nicholas Roerich, 1910

Grand Duchy and Tsardom

1. Rise of Moscow
2. Ivan III, the Great
3. Ivan IV, the Terrible
4. Time of Troubles
5. Ascension of the Romanovs
6. Peter the Great
7. Catherine I
8. Alexander I
9. Russo-Persian War
10. Napoleonic Wars
11. Nicholas I and the Decembrist Revolt
12. Russian Military
13. Rise of Radicalism and Reactionaries
14. Crimean War
15. Alexander II
16. Nihilism
17. Alexander III
18. Nicholas II
19. World War I

Russian WWI poster

Russian Revolution

1. New Revolutionary Movement
2. Revolution of 1905
3. Vladimir Lenin
4. Bolsheviks and Mensheviks
5. Revolution of 1917
6. Russian Civil War

The Soviet Union

1. Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
2. War Communism and the New Economic Policy
3. Russian Society
4. Josef Stalin
5. Industrialization and Collectivization
6. Purges and Deportation
7. Foreign Affairs
   

   Vladimir Lenin by Isaak Brodksy, May 1920

World War II

1. Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
2. German Invasion
3. Siege of Leningrad
4. Soviet Counterattack
5. Battle of Stalingrad
6. Battle of Kursk
7. Capture of Berlin
8. Yalta Conference
9. Invasion of Manchuria
10. Potsdam Conference

The Cold War

The Yalta Conference

1. The Iron Curtain
2. NATO and the Warsaw Pact
3. Nikita Khrushchev and De-Stalinization
4. Nuclear Age
5. Korean War
6. Space Age
7. Vietnam War
8. Cuban Missile Crisis
9. Detente and Anti-Proliferation
10. Soviet War in Afghanistan
11. Mikhail Gorbachev
12. Perestroika and Glasnost
13. Belavezha Accords and Collapse

People atop the Berlin Wall near Brandenburg Gate on 9 November 1989

The Russian Federation

1. Boris Yeltsin and Economic Reform
2. Constitutional Crisis
3. Chechen Wars
4. Economic Privatization
5. Financial Crash
6. Vladimir Putin
7. Dmitri Medvedev
8. The Russian Federation Today

Additional Resources

Bibliography