Events that changed Russia since 1855

1. great reforms, 1861-1874

2. rise of the radical intelligentsia, 1862-1881

3. Industrialization, 1881-1913

4. revolution of 1905

5. World War I, 1914-1918

6. Russian revolution and civil war, 1917-1921

7. Stalin era, 1928-1953

8. World War II, 1941-1945

9. Cold War, 1945-1991

10. collapse of the Soviet Union, 1991.