1. Unit 5

2.  Beginnings The “Rus” Viking traders Kiev – first Russian civilzation Invasion and Conquest by the Mongols Russian Princes = Mongol tax collectors

3. Viking Trade Routes

4. Ancient Kiev – the first “Russian” civilization

5. The Mongol Empire

6.  Princes of Muscovy Tax collectors to Mongols Powerful city-state  Ivan III (The Great) Overthrew Mongol control Tsar (Czar) = Ceasar “Third Rome” Byzantine influences  Ivan IV (Ivan the Terrible) Expanded the Russian Empire  Peter the Great Westernization and modernization Ivan IV

7.  Russian Revolution 1917 WWI Lenin and Communists (Bolsheviks) Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR aka Soviet Union) Civil War – Reds versus Whites

9.  Josef Stalin Collectivization Human-induced famine Exterminated Kulaks  WWII German Invasion of Russia Russia bore brunt of war  The Cold War Xenophobia Satellite countries Josef Stalin

10. The Human Cost of WWII in Europe Each flag = 100,000 dead soldiers Each skull = 100,000 civilian dead Each Star of David = 100, 000 Jewish dead

11. Soviet Satellite Nations Poland Romania Bulgaria East Germany Czechoslovakia Hungary Other European Communist Nations Yugoslavia Albania

12. The Fall of the Soviet Union 1991 The Russian Federation Democracy or dictatorship? Former Soviet satellite states – what now? Vladimir Putin

13.  Chechnya Muslim Two Russian invasions Terrorism Beslan  Georgia  Armenia versus Azerbaijan