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  1. 3 days ago · Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (22 April [O.S. 10 April] 1870 – 21 January 1924), better known as Vladimir Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, Soviet politician, and political theorist who was the founder and first leader of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic from 1917 until his death in 1924, and of the Soviet Union from 1922 until ...

  2. 1 day ago · By the end of the 19th century, Russia had expanded its control over the Caucasus, most of Central Asia and parts of Northeast Asia. Notwithstanding its extensive territorial gains and great power status, the empire entered the 20th century in a perilous state. A devastating famine in 1891–1892 killed millions and led to popular discontent.

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  4. 4 days ago · Russian Empire, historical empire founded on November 2 (October 22, Old Style), 1721, when the Russian Senate conferred the title of emperor (imperator) of all the Russias upon Peter I.

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  5. 1 day ago · t. e. Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev [f] [g] (2 March 1931 – 30 August 2022) was a Soviet and Russian politician who served as the last leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to the country's dissolution in 1991. He served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 and additionally as head of state beginning in ...

  6. 4 days ago · A new psychological analysis of Soviet leaders fundamentally alters 20th-century global history. ... For nearly a half-century, there was a single factor, a single raison d’être, at the heart ...

  7. 14 hours ago · Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin. Born: October 7, 1952, Leningrad, Russia, U.S.S.R. [now St. Petersburg, Russia] (age 71) Title / Office: president (2012-), Russia. prime minister (2008-2012), Russia. president (2000-2008), Russia. prime minister (1999-2000), Russia. (Show more) Political Affiliation: United Russia. Role In: Beslan school attack.

  8. 1 day ago · Serfdom endured well into the modern era; the years of Soviet communist rule (1917–91), especially the long dictatorship of Joseph Stalin, saw subjugation of a different and more exacting sort. The Russian republic was established immediately after the Russian Revolution of 1917 and became a union republic in 1922.

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