When the Mongol army approached a clan on the eastern Kievan Rus border, the clan asked the princes for assistance. ... The veche was responsible for things such as law making and deciding the fates of the local princes. ... After a somewhat calm period, the darugi began to shift the responsibility of collecting taxes to the princes of each area. When the prince of Kiev turned on the Mongols, the prince of Moscow stayed loyal and was thus given the responsibility of chief tax collector. ... The Mongols thoroughly destroyed the reputations of the princes and any of the already standing public l...

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The impulse of the empire had failed until the Emperor was no more than one of a number of competing princes, and the dream of Christendom also was a fading dream. ... And indeed in that period of the interregnum there was very little life or light in either the orthodox Christianity of Rome or in the orthodox tame churches of Russia and of the Protestant princes. ...

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During the year 1917, two revolutions took place in Russia. The February revolution of 1917 led to the defeat of Czarism, and a republic was established in its place. However the October Revolution of 1917 established the dictatorship of the proletariat (i.e. the laboring class). The February revol...

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Few stories in history are as sad and tragic as the story of Alexandra Fedorovna Romanov, the last tsarina of Russia. On June 6 1872, Alix was born Alexandra Victoria Helena Louise Beatrice von Hesse in Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany. Here and at the New Palace, she spent her early life, but she also tr...

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On the night of 29 December 1916, Prince Feliks Yusupov, husband of the tsar's niece, Vladimir Mitrofanovich Purishkevich, a member of the Duma, and Grand Duke Dmitry Pavlovich, the tsar's cousin, murdered Rasputin. ...

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How Romanovs came to the royal throne, when Moscovy Tsardom (Russian Tsardom) where at the end of dark period "the Time of Troubles"; How youthful and inexperienced Tsar Michael, the first Romanov's Tsar managed to restore stability, and to establish a solid base for his recipients, and finally tra...

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The Significance Of The Role Of Individuals In The Creation & Development Of The Communist State, 1917 – 53 Russia as a communist state was undoubtedly, even if only on a local level, shaped by the collective. Workers soviets, unions and Zemstvo played an important role in the early development of...

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Beside a military defeat, where 18,000 of Japan's 60,000 battle force were killed, and probably another 20,000 wounded, the imperial family was mortified by the desertion of Lieutenant Higashikuni, the twenty-three-year-old son of Prince Higashikuni, during the fight, a matter suppressed by Japanese censors.13 Stalin was also happy to call it a day. ...

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