 Built a new capital – St. Petersburg  “Venice of the North” Peter the Great, Early 1700s.

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 Built a new capital – St. Petersburg  “Venice of the North” Peter the Great, Early 1700s

  Built on more than 100 islands Peter the Great, Early 1700s

  Designed like a European city with elegant palaces, public squares and canals. Peter the Great, Early 1700s

 St. Petersburg

 Freed the serfs Alexander II, 1867

 Opened the way for industrial development. Alexander II

 “Father of Russian Revolution” Vladimir Lenin

 Headed the communist government and oversaw the Russian Empire's transformation into the USSR. Vladimir Lenin

 Joseph Stalin: Communist Leader Stalin pursued an economic policy of mobilizing the entire country to achieve the goal of rapid industrialization.

 Joseph Stalin: Communist Leader He guided Russian forces to victory in World War II.

 Joseph Stalin: Communist Leader He helped create the Cold War.

 Leonid Brezhnev: Soviet Leader He saw to it that the Soviet Union's military-industrial complex was greatly expanded and modernized.

 Leonid Brezhnev: Soviet Leader His continual buildup of his defense and aerospace industries left other sectors of the economy increasingly deprived of funds. Soviet agriculture, consumer-goods industries, and health-care services declined throughout the 1970s and early '80s as a consequence.

 Leonid Brezhnev

 Mikhail Gorbachev: USSR Leader Recognized that his nation was falling economically behind the rest of the world and could no longer afford to compete in the Cold War.

 Mikhail Gorbachev: USSR Leader He introduced policies designed to decentralize the Russian economy and open up the state, called perestroika and glasnost, and ended the Cold War.

 Mikhail Gorbachev