Question by Chris: What, in your opinion, are the top five most important events in Russian history?
They can be exclusively to do with modern Russian history if you like, but please say so in your response. I ask, mainly as I’m intending to learn Russian very soon, and would like also to begin reading up on its history, starting with the most crucial events.
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Answer by Andy
Stalin
Civil War
Steamroller movement (The Crushing of Germany which never happened)
WW1
Tsar Nicolas
What do you think? Answer below!
Tetsuzin says
The most important events in Russian history (I'm Russian and live in Russia :))) )
(Ranged by time)
1. The reign of Peter the Great
2. The Russian Revolution in 1917 and Civil War
3. Mass repressions in 1930's (Stalin's genocide)
3. Great Patriotic War (broke out Jun 22 1941) (WWII)
4. The break-up of the USSR in 1991
Don't forget, it was not only the genocide of the Ukrainian people but genocide of all the people of Russia.
Two my great-grandfathers were killed in 1937.
Bozo T says
The Revoulution of 1917
The fall of the USSR in 1991
The murder of the Russian Royal Family
Stalingrad
Stalin's genocide of the Ukranian people in the 1930's
I am not a big fan….no… I really detest Communism
Nick C says
1. October Revolution (a tyrant is overthrown, the cruel White Army is defeated and Lenin begins modernisation)
2. Great Patriotic War
3. War of 1812 (Napoleon's invasion of Russia, NOT America's attempted invasion of Canada)
4. Defeat of the Tartars by Ivan the Great
5. First man in space – Yuri Gagarin
Gabrielle says
1.)Catherine the Great becoming Queen Regent.
2.)Her son retaliating by making the royal succession of the throne of male preference primogeniture.
3.)The formation of the Bolshevik party
4.)The murder of the Romanovs
5.)Stalin
dirtysanchez says
1917 revolution
the great purges
ww1
collectivisation (lead to severe famine)
and basically anything to do with stalin
Louie O says
The Mongol invasion
The reign of Peter the Great
The Russian Revolution in 1917
The Stalin years.
The breakup of the USSR in 1991.