"These terrible strangers have taken our country, and tomorrow they will take yours if you don't come and help us"
- in response to this, Mstislav the Bold and Mstislav the Old joined forces and set our eastward to meet the foe
- The Russians were defeated in 1223 at the Battle of the Kalka River
- A defeat still remembered today
Mongol Invasion
- The Mongol Empire invaded Kievan Rus in the 13th century destroying numerous cities including Ryazan, Moscow, and Kiev
- Batu Khan's full scale invasion of Rus' occured from 1237 to 1240
- All Russians had to submit to Mongol rule
Nicholas II
- died July 16/17, 1918
- last Russian emperor (1894-1917)
- his wife, Alexandra, himself, and his children were killed publicly
- Cut the wages of the lower class
Bolshevik Revo
- 3 promises
- Peace
- Bread
- Land
- a seizure of state power instrumental in the larger Russian Revo of 1917
- led by the Bolsheviks
- Bolshevik Red Guards forces under the Military Revo Committee began the takeober of government buildings on October 24, 1917
- the following day, the Winter Palace (location of the government) was captured
Results
- Bolshevik victory led to the Creation of Soviet Russia
- End of Russian Provisional Government, Russian Republic and dual power
- Start of the Civil War
Vladimir Lenin
- Russian communist revolutionary, politician and political theorist
- Politically a Marxist
- Carl Marks is responsible for the theory of Communism buy Lenin practiced it
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