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Feb 18, 1555
st.basils cathedral
construction begins -
Nikon
Becomes head of the Russian Orthodox Church and makes reforms that lead toa religious upheaval called the Great Schism. -
Peter the Great
Becomes czar of Russia and later moves the capital to St. Petersburg. -
lenin and stalin
the russian revolution occurs. lenin and stalin take power -
communist party
had organized the different peoples absorbed during the centuries of russians imperial expansion -
world war 2
broke out -
joseph stalin
he led the soviet union in the fight against nazi germany -
cold war
the end of cold war