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• Invasion
  • "These terrible strangers have taken our country, and tomorrow they will take yours if you do not come and help us."
    • In response to this call, Mstislav the Bold and Mstislav Romanovich the Old joined forces and set out eastward to meet the foe (Mongols).
    • The Russians were defeated in 1223 at the Battle of the Kalka River, a defeat remembered to this day in Russia and Ukraine.
• Mongol Invasion
  • The Mongol Empire invaded the Kievan Rus' in the 13th century, destroying numerous cities including Ryazan, Kolomna, Moscow, Vladimir, and Kiev.
  • Batu Kahn's full-scale invasion of Rus' occurred from 1237 to 1240.
  • All Russian states had to submit to Mongol rule and became part of the Golden Horde empire; some of it lasted until 1480.
• Nicholas II
  • Died July 16/17 1918.
  • The last Russian emperor(Tsar) (1894-1917).
  • His wife, Alexandra, himself, and their children were killed by the Bolsheviks after the October Revolution.
  • He was killed because he cut the wages of the lower class that lead to the Bolshevik Revolution.
  • He was part of the Romanov dynasty that ruled Russia since the mid 17th century.
• Bolshevik Revolution
  • They had three promises
    • Peace
    • Bread
    • Land
  • AKA - Red October, the October Uprising, or the Bolshevik Revolution.
  • IT was a seizure of state power instrumental in the larger Russian Revolution of 1917.
  • The revolution was led by the Bolsheviks, who used their influence in the Petrograd Soviet to organize the armed forces.
  • Bolshevik Red Guards forces under the Military Revolutionary Committee began the takeover of government buildings on 24 October, 1917.
  • The following day, the Winter Palace (the seat of the Provisional government located in Petrograd, then the capital of Russia), was captured.
• Results of the Revolution
  • Bolshevik victory led to the creation of Soviet Russia
  • End of the Russian Provisional Government, Russian Republic, and dual power.
  • Start of the Russian Civil War.
• Vladimir Lenin
  • Was a Russian communist revolutionary, politician, and a political theorist.
  • Politically a Marxist, his theoretical contributions to Marxist thought are known as Leninism, which coupled with Marxian economic theory have collectively come to be known as Marxism-Leninism.
  • As the leader of the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, he took a senior role in orchestrating the October Revolution in 1917.
  • Karl Marx is responsible for the theory of communism.
  • Vladimir Lenin put it into practice.

Research: Google doc 2 paragraphs Comparing communism vs democracy, capitalism vs socialism.