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Dostoevsky
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Russian History
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World History
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1800
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1798-1814 French Predominance in Central Europe
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1801
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1801-25 Reign of Alexander I
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1802
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1803
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1804
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1804-14 Reign of Napoleon I: The Empire, 1804-1811 Napoleonic
Codes
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1805
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1806
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1806-12 Russo-Turkish War, Russia acquires Bessarabia
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1806 End of Holy Roman Empire
1806-25 Latin American countries win independence
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1807
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Franco-Russian Alliance
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British slave trade ended
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1808
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1808-09 Russo-Swedish War; Russia acquires Finland
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1808-13 Peninsular War in Spain
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1809
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1809-11 Napoleon at height of power
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1810
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1811
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1811-48 V. Belinsky ushers in Russian Literary Criticism
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1812
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Napoleon invades Russia
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US British War
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1813
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1813-14 German War of Liberation: Leipzig
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1814
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1814-15 Congress of Vienna
1814-24 Louis XVIII of France
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1815
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Hundred Days War: Waterloo
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1816
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1817
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1818
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1819
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1820
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1821
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Dostoevsky born Oct. 10 in Moscow
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1822
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1823
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Monroe Doctrine
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1824
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1824-30 Reign of Charles X of France
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1825
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Decembrists
1825-55 Reign of Nicholas I
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1826
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1826-28 War with Persia; Russia gains Armenia
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1827
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1828
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1828-29 Russo-Turkish War; Russia penetrates into the Balkans
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1829
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1830
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Revolutionary Flurries
1830-48 July Monarchy in France: Louis Philippe
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1831
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A. Pushkin writes Eugene and Onegin and the play Boris
Godunov
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1832
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1833
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Abolition Act abolishes slavery in Britain
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1834
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Enters Chermak Private High School in Moscow
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1835
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1836
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1837
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D's mother dies at age 37.
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Death of Pushkin
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1837-1901 Victoria queen in Britain
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1838
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Enters St. Petersburg Military Engineering Academy
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1839
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D's father, Mikhail Andreevich, is killed by village serfs
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First Anglo-Chinese (Opium) War
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1840
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1841
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1842
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Gogol published Dead Souls
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1843
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Graduates from Military Academy. Begins work as a draughtsman
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1844
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Begins work on Poor People. Resigns from job as draughtsman
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1845
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1846
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Poor People is published
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1847
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Starts visiting the Petrashevsky Circle
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1848
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Marx & Engels write The Communist Manifesto
Revolution: Second French Republic
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1849
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Arrested, tried, and sentenced to death with other Petrashevsky
Circle members
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1850
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1850-54 incarcerated at Omsk maximum security prison
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1850-73: Golden Age of British Capitalism: Free Trade
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1851
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1852
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1852-70: Reign of Napoleon III
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1853
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Russo-Turkish War
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1854
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1854-59 Military exile in Siberia
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1854-56 Crimean War
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1854-68 Westernizing of Japan
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1855
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1855-81 Reign of Alexander II
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1856
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Proposes to Maria Isaeva
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1857
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Marries Maria Isaeva
Achieves the rank of lieutenant
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1858
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Begins work as editor of Time
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Formation of Rumania
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1859
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Darwin writes Origin of Species
1859-70 Unification of Italy
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1860
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Returns to St. Petersburg
Publishes The House of the Dead
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Russians found Vladivostok
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Westren Europe - free trade with England
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1861
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Publishes The Insulted and Injured
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Emancipation of Serfs
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1861-65 American Civil War
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1862
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Travels to Paris and several European countries
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Turgenev publishes Fathers and Sons
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1863
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1864
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Notes from the Underground published
His wife dies
His brother dies
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1865
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The Complete Works of Dostoevsky published
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1866
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Proposes to Anna Gregorievna Snitkina
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1867
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Marries Anna. The Dostoevskys go to Europe ans stay for four
years
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Russia sells Alaska to the US
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Dominion of Canada
Marx writes Capital
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1868
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Birth of first child, Sofia, who dies after three months
The Idiot published
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1869
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Mendeleev devises the periodic table of the elements
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1870
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1870-80 Populism and Nihilism
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Vatican Council I
Franco-Prussian War
1870-1940 Third Republic in France
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1871
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Publishes Demons
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1871-1918 German Empire (Bismark)
Darwin writes Descent of Man
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1872
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1873
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1873-76 Tolstoy writes Anna Karenina
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1874
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1875
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Publishes The Raw Youth
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1876
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Publishes The Writer's Diary
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1877
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Russo-Turkish War
Tchaikovsky composes the score for Swan Lake
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1878
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Son Alexei dies at age 3
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Autonomy of Bulgaria; Independence of Siberia
Congress of Berlin
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Bismark's Anti-Socialist Laws
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1879
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1880
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1880-90 Socialist parties founded; revisionism
1880-1914 Height of Imperialism
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1881
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Brothers Karamazov finished
Dostoevsky dies
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Assassination of Alexander II
1881-94 Reign of Alexander III
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1882
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1883
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1883-93 French in Indochina
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1884
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1885
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1885-98 Partition of Africa
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1886
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1887
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1888
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1888-1918 Reign of William II of Germany
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1889
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1890
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Tchaikovsky: Sleeping Beauty
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1891
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1892
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Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker
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1893
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Triple Entente with France and Britain
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1894
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1894-1917 Reign of Nicholas II
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1894-1906 Dreyfus Affair in France
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1895
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1896
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Chekhov: The Sea Gull
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1897
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Lenin arrested for radical activities
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1898
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Formation of Russian Social Democratic Labor Party
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Spanish-American War; Fashoda crisis
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1899
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Chekhov: Uncle Vanya
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1899-1902 Boer War
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1900
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Freud writes Interpretation of Dreams
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1901
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1902
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Anglo-Japanese War
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1903
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Bolshevik-Menshevik split in the Social Democratic Labor
party
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1904
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Russo-Japanese War
Chekhov: The Cherry Orchard
Pavlov wins Nobel prize for Physiology and Medicine
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1905
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Revolution in Russia
Trans-Siberian railroad completed
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1914
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World War I begins
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1917
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Lenin successfully topples the monarchy
Russia becomes a socialist state
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