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Created a ‘seven-year plan’ to surpass the US

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Khrushchev

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Virgin Lands Campaign

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Khrushchev

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Outmaneuvered Malenkov and Beria to rise to his position

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Khrushchev

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Advocated for ‘agro-towns’

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Khrushchev

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Anti-Party group (Molotov, Malenkov, Kaganovich) sought to depose him

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Khrushchev

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Fiercely against Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago

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Khrushchev

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Exploded with anger against avant-garde works in Manege Affair

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Khrushchev

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Abolished prosecution tribunals called ‘troikas’

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Khrushchev

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Novocherkassk Massacre occurred when food prices were raised

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Khrushchev

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10
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Kitchen Debate with Nixon

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Khrushchev

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Banged his shoe at a UN conference in response to a Filipino delegate Lorenzo Sumulong’s speech

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Khrushchev

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12
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Ordered construction of Berlin Wall

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Khrushchev

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Oversaw Cuban Missile Crisis

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Khrushchev

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Oversaw partial liberalization of Poland in Polish October

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Khrushchev

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Said ‘we will bury you’ in referring to the eventual triumph of communism over capitalism

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Khrushchev

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16
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Sent industrial experts to China

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Khrushchev

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Met with American corn farmer Roswell Garst

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Khrushchev

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18
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Delivered anti-Stalin ‘Secret Speech’ to 20th Congress

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Khrushchev

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19
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Ruled with Alexei Kosygin and Nikolai Podgorny

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Brezhnev

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20
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Removed head of Party-State Control Committee Alexander Shelepin

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Brezhnev

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21
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Writers Yuli Daniel and Andrei Sinyavsky tried under this man’s rule

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Brezhnev

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Ruled during Era of Stagnation, or ‘Zastoi’

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Brezhnev

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23
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Signed SALT I with Nixon

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Brezhnev

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Authorized invasion of Afghanistan after being misinformed of its operations by Mikhail Suslov

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Brezhnev

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Suppressed Prague Spring in Operation Danube

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Brezhnev

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Established namesake doctrine in a speech at the Fifth Congress of the Polish United Workers’ Party

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Brezhnev

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Glorified his efforts at Novorossiysk in a trilogy of memoirs (Minor Land, Rebirth, Virgin Lands)

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Brezhnev

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28
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Obsessed with receiving medals

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Brezhnev

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29
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Assassination attempt by Viktor Ilyin instead injured several astronauts

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Brezhnev

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30
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Kiss with East German leader Honecker in ‘My God, Help Me Survive This Deadly Love’

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Brezhnev

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31
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End of reign known as ‘Gerontocracy’

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Brezhnev

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32
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Ordered destruction of realist art display called Bulldozer Exhibition

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Brezhnev

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Famously declared the Baikal-Amur Mainline would be built with ‘clean hands only’

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Brezhnev

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34
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Hosted Italian delegation at World Youth Festival

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Gorbachev

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35
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First stage of one economic policy named uskoreniye (acceleration)

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Gorbachev

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36
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Succeeded short rules of Andropov and Chernenko

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Gorbachev

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37
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Created failed merged agricultural entity Agroprom

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Gorbachev

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38
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Increased drinking age from 18 to 21 among other anti-alcoholic reforms

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Gorbachev

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Made historian Yury Afanasyev dean of State Historical Archive Faculty

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Gorbachev

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40
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Thatcher said of this leader, ‘we can do business together’

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Gorbachev

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41
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Called a leader ‘extraordinarily primitive, troglodyte, and intellectually feeble’

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Gorbachev

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42
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Created democratically-elected Congress of People’s Deputies

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Gorbachev

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43
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Signed Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty with Reagan

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Gorbachev

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44
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Human chain known as Baltic Way formed as a declaration of autonomy

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Gorbachev

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45
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Otto von Hapsburg tested this leader in the Pan-European Picnic

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Gorbachev

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46
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‘Sinatra Doctrine’ allowed Warsaw Pact countries to determine their own internal affairs

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Gorbachev

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47
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First and only ‘President of the Soviet Union’

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Gorbachev

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48
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‘500 Days’ Economic program called for increased decentralization and marginal privatization

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Gorbachev

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49
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‘Gang of Eight’ launched the ‘August Coup’ against him

50
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Coup launched against him by Committee for the State of Emergency

51
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Approved Black January intervention in Azerbaijan that killed hundreds of civilians

52
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Oversaw ‘April 9 Tragedy’ or the ‘Tbilisi Massacre’ in response to anti-soviet protests

53
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Supported separatists in Moldova in the Transnistrian War

54
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Once found in Washington D.C. trying to find pizza in underwear

55
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Claimed his countrymen would revolt if they saw the spoils of a Houston supermarket

56
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Yabloko Party formed to oppose this leader’s reforms

57
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Created oligarchs like the Seven Bankers

58
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PM Yegor Gaidar designed ‘shock therapy’ program

59
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Denounced the August Coup in a speech on a tank

60
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Resigned following a scandal involving Swiss Mabatex construction firm

61
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Defeated Gennady Zyuganov to win reelection

62
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Enlightened law code called Nakaz based on Montesquieu’s ‘The Spirit of the Laws’

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Catherine the Great

63
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Secured victory at Battle of Kazan

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Catherine the Great

64
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One foreign minister replaced by Ivan Osterman after failure of Northern Accord

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Catherine the Great

65
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Alexander Suvorov put down Pugachev’s Rebellion

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Catherine the Great

66
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Potemkin built fake villages to impress this ruler

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Catherine the Great

67
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Established Hermitage Museum

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Catherine the Great

68
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Assignation Bank produced paper money

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Catherine the Great

69
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Forced Peter III to abdicate

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Catherine the Great

70
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Created First League of Armed Neutrality to protect trade against British

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Catherine the Great

71
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Signed Treaty of Kuchuk Kainarji with Ottomans

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Catherine the Great

72
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Ended the War of the Bavarian Succession

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Catherine the Great

73
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Navy victorious at Battle of Gangut

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Peter the Great

74
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Put down the Bulavin Rebellion

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Peter the Great

75
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Imposed tax on beards

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Peter the Great

76
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Created ‘Grand Embassy’ to Western Europe

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Peter the Great

77
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Incited Great Northern War

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Peter the Great

78
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Suppressed Streltsy Uprising

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Peter the Great

79
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Created religious position Most Holy Synod

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Peter the Great

80
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Built country’s navy at Taganrog to conduct Azov Campaigns

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Peter the Great

81
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Ordered Sack of Novgorod

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Ivan the Terrible

82
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Secret police called oprichniki

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Ivan the Terrible

83
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Won Battle of Ergeme, but lost Livonian War

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Ivan the Terrible

84
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Centralized rule by dismantling Chosen Council

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Ivan the Terrible

85
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Conquered Kazan and Astrakhan in youth

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Ivan the Terrible

86
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Created the streltsy

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Ivan the Terrible

87
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Son of Vasily III

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Ivan the Terrible

88
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Established first zemsky sobor - ‘assembly of the land’

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Ivan the Terrible

89
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Established country’s first printing press, the Print Yard

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Ivan the Terrible

90
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Succeeded by feeble Feodor I

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Ivan the Terrible

91
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Forced to flee to Scandinavia after brother Yaropolk murdered other brother Oleg

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Vladimir the Great

92
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Assembled army through help of Hakon Sigurdsson

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Vladimir the Great

93
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Christianized the Kievan Rus because Islam banned alcohol

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Vladimir the Great

94
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Mother was housekeeper Malusha

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Vladimir the Great

95
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Tutored by Dobrynya

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Vladimir the Great

96
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Grandson of Vsevolod the Big Nest

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Alexander Nevsky

97
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Canonized as a saint of the Russian Orthodox Church

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Alexander Nevsky

98
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Won Battle of the Neva against Swedes

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Alexander Nevsky

99
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Drove out Livonian Order from Pskov

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Alexander Nevsky

100
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Won Battle on the Ice

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Alexander Nevsky

101
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Succeeded Yaroslav II

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Alexander Nevsky

102
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Secured position thanks to friendship with Sartaq Khan

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Alexander Nevsky

103
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Appointed Mikhail Speransky as closest advisor

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Alexander I

104
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Abolished Collegia in favor of State Council

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Alexander I

105
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Formed an alliance with Napoleon by Treaty of Tilsit

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Alexander I

106
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Replaced one advisor with Aleksey Arakcheyev

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Alexander I

107
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Saw January Uprising in Poland

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Alexander II

108
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Minister Milyutin implemented bar system

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Alexander II

109
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Declared, ‘Gentlemen, let us have no dreams,’ sparking a rebellion

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Alexander II

110
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Loris-Melikov appointed to create a constitution

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Alexander II

111
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Sold Alaska to the U.S.

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Alexander II

112
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Introduced system of zemstvos

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Alexander II

113
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Killed by People’s Will explosion

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Alexander II

114
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Pyotr Shuvalov in charge of Third Department police force

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Alexander II

115
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October Manifesto created the Duma

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Nicholas II

116
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Sergei Witte prime minister and key advisor

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Nicholas II

117
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Father Gapon led a march on this ruler’s palace

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Nicholas II

118
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Navy suffered attack at Port Arthur

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Nicholas II

119
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Coronation led to Khodynka Tragedy because of fear of not enough beer

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Nicholas II

120
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Pyotr Stolypin worked for agricultural reform under this ruler

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Nicholas II

121
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Saw Potemkin Uprising

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Nicholas II

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