Russian infantry marching to the front during First World War
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1157–1331
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1263–1547
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Great Stand on the Ugra River • Time of Troubles • Zemsky Sobor • Treaty of Nystad • Petrovian reforms • 1812 Patriotic War • Decembrist Revolt • Emancipation reform • Russo-Japanese War • 1905 Revolution • October Manifesto • Second Patriotic War
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1721–1917
Russian America
1799–1867
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1809–1917
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1867–1915
Russian Manchuria
1900–1905
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1914–1921
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1917–1918
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1917–1922
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1919–1922
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1922–1922
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1922–1991
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1922–1991
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1940–1956
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1921–1944
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1994–present
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2000–present
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2014–present
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2022–present
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The military history of Russia has antecedents involving Kievan Rus' and the Rus' principalities that succeeded it, the Mongol invasion of the early 13th century, Russia's numerous wars against Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Crown of the Kingdom of Poland, Sweden, and Ottoman Empire, Prussia (Seven Years' War), France (especially the Napoleonic Wars and the Crimean War). The 20th century saw Russia's involvement in two world wars, as well as smaller military conflicts. During the Cold War, the greatly enlarged armed forces suppressed rebellions in Eastern Europe and became a nuclear superpower hostile to NATO, as well as China after 1960. The post-Cold War military history of the Russian Federation began in 1991.
The military history of Russia includes:
the military history of Kievan Rus' (see also Military of Kievan Rus')
the military history of the Rus' principalities (see also Armies of the Rus' principalities)
such as Muscovy (the Grand Duchy of Moscow, see also Landed Army)
the military history of the Tsardom of Russia
Military history of the Russian Empire
Military history of the Soviet Union
Military history of the Russian Federation
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