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Essay on Failure of the Peoples New Soviet Man
The south-west part of present-day Russia is populated for long times by Scythian tribes. In the third century BC the Scythians are displaced by Sarmatians, who in turn are overrun by waves of Germanic Goths. In the third century the Asiatic Huns replace the Goths and are in turn conquered by Avars in the sixth century. By the ninth century, Slavonic tribes begin to settle in what is now Ukraine, Belarus and the Novgorod and Smolensk regions. Around 850 the first Russian state is founded. This state includes what is now West-Russia and Ukraine and is named the Grand Principality of Rus' or Kiev. Since 1132 Rus' collapses (finally in 1240) and many small feudal Russian states are formed, like Novgorod and Vladimir-Suzdal'. This last state, founded in 1157, is named the Grand Principality of Vladimir-Suzdal'. Vladimir becomes under fiefdom of the Khanate of the Golden Horde, a Mongolian state in 1238. Vladimir is renamed the Grand Principality of Vladimir and Moscow in 1327 and the Grand Principality of Muscovy in 1462.
Muscovy becomes the dominant Russian state and annexes after the end of the Mongol fiefdomship Novgorod in 1480 and Pskov in 1510. The state is renamed Russia or Russian Tsardom in 1547. This empire is a feudal state and becomes an absolute monarchy under Tsar Peter the Great (1682-1725). He restyles Russia into the All-Russian Empire in 1721. Russia expands during the centuries and includes areas between the Baltic Sea and the Pacific Ocean as well as Central Asia. For some times it even includes Alaska.
Imperial decline becomes evident in Russia's defeat in the unpopular Russo-Japanese war in 1905. Subsequent civic disturbances force Tsar Nicholas II to grant a constitution and introduce limited democratic reforms. The government remains authoritarian and for the most of the time Pyotr Arkadyevich Stolypin is prime minister......
