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Russia & The Former Soviet Union

Russia & The Former Soviet Union. St. Basil’s, Russian Orthodox Church, built in 1555 by Ivan the Terrible. Ivan, The Terrible, born 1533. Cossack & Tatar. The Siberian High. People per. Catherine II, The Great, 1782.

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Russia & The Former Soviet Union

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  1. Russia & The Former Soviet Union

  2. St. Basil’s, Russian Orthodox Church, built in 1555 by Ivan the Terrible

  3. Ivan, The Terrible,born 1533

  4. Cossack & Tatar

  5. The Siberian High

  6. People per

  7. Catherine II, The Great, 1782

  8. “We’ll give above the plan!”(we’ll cut more trees than the plan calls for.)

  9. Peter, the Great, 1838

  10. Nicholas II, 1898the last TsarInaugurated the Trans-Siberian RR, longest in the world.

  11. Defeat by the Japanese, 1905

  12. Karl Marx 1818-1883German philosopher & economist, author of The Communist Manifesto andDas Kapital

  13. Vladimir Lenin, 1870-1924

  14. Lenin & Stalin

  15. Russification

  16. Stalin & Mao, genocidal pals turned bitter foes

  17. After Stalin’s death in 1953, the Russians made new overtures to the Chinese, but the Sino-Soviet split soon occurred as Mao perceived Khrushchev to be an appeaser to the West.

  18. Fake? We will bury you! Nikita Khrushchev at the UN, 1960. Real?

  19. Ruined Petro-Landscape, Azerbaijian

  20. Siberian Gas Works

  21. Mikhail Gorbachev Glasnost openness Perestroika restructuring

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