Russian Rulers

Question 1

Peter the Great

Answer 1

1672-1725 Modernizing Russia by copying Louis XIV

Question 2

Catherine the Great

Answer 2

1762-1796 Enlightened Absolutism

Expanded Russia into Crimea

Question 3

Nicholas 2

Answer 3

1894-1917 Last Tsar of Russia

Bloody Sunday: Shot protestors against the Russo-Japanese War

Question 4

Lenin

Answer 4

First Head of USSR
1918 Led Bolsheviks during Russian Civil War
1919: Comintern -> Soviet-style communism
1921: NEP

Question 5

Stalin

Answer 5

1927: Totalitarian dictatorship 
1928-1932: implemented Five Year Plan to focus solely on steel, iron, and oil production 
Collectivization: Communist - run farms
Great Purges: kill all possible threats 
NKVD, Censorship, Gulags - labor camps

Question 6

Kruschev

Answer 6

1958-1964 De-stalinization, consumerism, coexistence with capitalism (ruled during time of Cold War)

Question 7

Brezhnev

Answer 7

1964-1982 Re-stalinization

Brezhnev Doctrine: USSR has the right to intervene in any communist country

Question 8

Gorbachev

Answer 8

1985-1991 Perestroika, Glasnost - trying to develop economy

Question 9

Yeltsin

Answer 9

1991-1999 Shock Therapy - ruinous to economy!!!

Question 10

Putin

Answer 10

1999-present

semi-authoritatian, some private enterprise allowed