Russia: a Short History

administrative Alexander Alexis alliance annexation appointed army Austria Baltic became Black Sea Bolshevik boyar Catherine central century Church committee Communist Constantinople constitution Cossacks Council Crimean Tatars Crown decree Dimitry Duma dvoriane economic eighteenth elected emancipation Emperor empire Empress established estates European Fedor Finland force foreign German Golden Horde grand duchy grand duke industrial institutions Ivan Ivan III Kiev Kievan labor land later leaders Lenin liberal Lithuania March ment military million minister Mongol Moscow Muscovite Nicholas nobility Novgorod October officials oprichnina organized party peace peasants Peter Petersburg Petrograd Poland policies Polish political population princes principal provinces Pskov reform reign revolution revolutionary rubles rule Russian schools serfs Siberia social socialist Soviet Union Stalin streltsy Supreme Privy Council Sweden Tatar territories throne tion trade treaty troops tsar Turkey Turkish Ukraine Ukrainian Vasili Vasili III veche Vladimir Western workers zemskii sobor zemstvo