THE FORMATION OF OLD SOVIET UNION

There should be tremendous reverence for nations that have made the most contribution to the the groth of the mordern civilisation.We pick America and Rusia or old Soviet as case studies .The blogger ibikunle laniyan the Russian root down to the Vikings and the spirit of such adventure that civilised the mordern civilisation a thousand years after adventurous spirit still with them.Albeit the human foibles such as the invasion of Ukraine they are worth celebration The Slavic peoples in 800 BC migrated to the area of Ukraine where they settled and by 862BC king Rurik ruled the region comprised of the people known as Rus from the city of Novgorod.Rurik dynasty later ruled the empire for the next 900years.In 882BC king Oleg moved the capital city to Kiev and by 980BC the was massive expansion in the kingdom of Kievan Rus under the military rule of Vladimir the Great.Yaroslav the Wise became king 1015 BC.A period in which kievan rus reached the peak of its power and it had written code of law.Unfortunately the kingdom was invaded by the Mongols in 1237 and destroyed many of the cities.In 1462 Ivan 111 became Grand Prince of Moscow and in 1480 freed Russia from the Mongols.In 1547 Ivan 1V popularly known as Ivan the terrible was crowned as the first Tsar of Russia.In 1552 conquered kazan and extended his kingdom. Russian-Polish war started in 1609 when Poland invaded Russia.When Michael Romanov was elected Tsar of Russia Romanov dynasty was begun and will rule until 1917 The Salt Riot crisis erupted in 1648 in Moscow and 6 years later Russia too invaded Poland and signed peace treaty.Peter Tsar came to power in 1689 and established Russia as a world power with a standing army.Peter the Great started the Great Northern War with Sweden and 3year later founded the city of St.Petersburg that became capital of the empire in 1713.Take a look at the rest of the timeline until 1917 of bolshevik revolution.The people of Rus were originally vikings the generation of Eric the Red great pyrates of yore migrated from the land of Sweden who themselves migrated to eastern europe.Russia won the Great Northern war and gained more territories including estonia and livonia in 1721.When Peter the great died in 1725 his Catherine 1 reigned as the empress of Russia.Russo-Turkish War against Ottoman empire started in 1736 and seven years war commenced in 1757 and gained no territory in 1762 when the war ended and same year Peter Tsar111 was murdered as Catherine11 his wife took the crown and ruled for 34years to herald the golden age of Russian empire.When Napoleon Bonaparte invaded Russia in 1812,his army was almost destroyed by Russian weather and two years later he was defeated.From decembrist revolt that erupted in St.Petersburg in 1825,down to the Crimean war that erupted in 1853 in which it eventually lost to an alliance of France,Ottoman empire,Britain,Sardinia,the empire had shown to be a force to be reckoned with in the international community.The reforms of Tsar Alexander11 in 1861 led to the freedom of the serfs so that by 1897 social democractic party was established and was later to split to menshevik and bolshevik parties.In 1904 it fought Japan in Manchuria and recorded heavy looses compared to the Revolution of 1905 that recorded 200deaths on bloody Sunday.The same year Tsar Nicholas was forced to accest the october manifesto forcing him to accept and called the parliament Duma.During the first war Russia fought with the allies and in 1914 invaded Germany.By 1917 Bolshevik revolution There can be no doubt the Russian people were the most powerful tribal descendants from the vikings'days of yore.Vikings were Norsemen or Northman members of seafaring Scandinavian battlehungry warriors who raided and colonised popular wide areas of europe from 9th to 11th century and a profound and disruptive influence on the checkered antecedent of europe in general.They composed pagan Danish,Norwegian and Swedish warriors were inspired to undertake raids due hopelessness of victims abroad and overpopulation at home.This group of landowning chieftains and clan heads including their freemen,retainers,survivors and robust young clan members sought adventures and booty abroad.They were farmers at home and raiders and pillagers at sea and they possesed most competitive,tireless and inexhaustible repertoire of surplus manpower,including exceptional leaders and uncommon technocrats,never before seen in history good at organisational charm and like streak of lightning could conquer lands with the rude shock ofImpossible accuracy with their conquering bands and armies,with longships negotiating voyages on seas with hit and run methods at cities and towns along the coasts.Little wonder they were still the first to venture into space more than a thousand years after their migration from Sweden their DNAs have notchanged a bit a rarest achievement that wouldnt have happened in world history and a proof that common breed of homosapien couldnt have attained this impossible feat despite uncommon arrays of technology possesed by Americans and the British.Americans probably did not know this contemptuous axiom and i beg to disagree had it not been for the impossible feat of Russian Vikings no mortal,no earthling would have ventured beyond the earth's escape velocity. Only mortals with pyrates'instinct,burning,plundering,killing and agression that earned them nickname viking could have done this with such brash nature of desultory raidings opened up everywhere for development and truly pioneered this current sloth of mordern globalisation.We do not know exact composition of vikings armies but the expansion into baltic lands and Russia was attributed to the Swedes.And the nonmilitary colonisation and expansion elsewhere in the faroe island,orkney islands and iceland was attributed to the Norwegians.Their indelible footprints were felt in England with the emergence of their desultory raidings as far back as late 8th century notably raids on the Lindisfarne monastery holyland in 793 though evolved earnestly in 865 led by sons of Ragnar Lothbrok such as Halfdan,Ivar the Boneless reduced Mercia to a fraction of its former size and peradventure Hubba invaded East Anglia and Northumbrian ancient kingdoms.The raids couldnt subdue Wessex of Alfred the great and in 878 brokered a truce instead and became basis of a treaty thereafter in 886.It recognised much of England was in vikings and Danish hands.Alfred the great though had upper hands over them despite threat by fresh armies between 892 to 899 and his son Edward the elder was able to resume reconquest of Danish England.Prior to his death in 924 small Danish states of old Mercian and East Anglian had been conquered with remote Nurthumbria resisted much longer under Irish vikings leaders.By 954 norse rule was in England liquidated by Eadred.The raid was begun again in 980 when England became part of Canute empire.With poor raids of the Canute11 Vikings raids thus ended in the reign of William1.They the scandinavians had indelible footprints in england on social structure,dialect,names of places and human names.From the coast of western seas beginning with iceland down to vinland and beyond ireland from 900 upward scandinavian footprints were felt with colonies founded in Greenland and Northamerica and settlements to faroe,orkney,shetland islands,Hebrides and isle of Man.Erik the Red expedition to north america called vinland the land of wild grapes offers the true account of first Viking visits to North america.Another popular saga the saga of Greenlanders the first European to discover American continent was not columbus with his fabled trip of 1492 but Bjarni Herjolfsson with Greenland bound ship through mothernature or climate change was blown offcourse westward bound and lucidly tricked by windstorm to the coastline of eastern canada prior to greenland return.According to traditional sources Leif Ericson the son of Eric the Red in about 1000 with a crew of 35 men proceeded in search of europe discovered by Bjani and made it to same eastern canada.The Leif brothers made several voyages and icelandic trader Thorfinn Karlsefni infact sojourned in vinland for three years together with his wife were credited with later exploration.Archaelogical evidences such as discoveries at L'Anse aux Meadows proved that on the Newfoundland island's northern tip such as Newfoundland and Labrador vikings made voyages as far south where wild grapes grew and led to vikings as the first european sailors to vinland at eastern New Brunswick.As far back as 985 the ravages of scandinavian invasion Over Rechru a local island are documented as they supplanted scandinavian kingdoms in areas such as Dublin,Waterford and Limerick.The English invaders of 12th century still found them dominant in the regions also including Wexford and Cork.The vikings looted Europe including countries such as England,Italy,Russia which they founded too,Spain,Ireland,France,Germany,Iceland and Greenland for more than 500years before Columbus. Most of the scandinavians led peaceful lives and not all of them did incessant fight kevan Rus and they spoke Germanic languages with two dialects and wrote in runes.They married more than one wife,were christians and worshipped the norse gods of freya,odin and thor.This brave warriors were powerful shipbuilders and norwegian had crept the expertise and the dream alive.They made voyage during their raid period known as viking age from north africa to meditaranean,middleeast,volga bulgaria and north america and profound influence on early medieval history.These sailors not only pioneered colonisation,slavetrade,european civilisation,political system spreading native settlements and governments in faroe,iceland,british isles,greenland,Dnieper,Baltic coast,Normandy and volga trade routes across Russia,belarus and ukraine where they were also known as varangians.To be frank Normans too they were Vikings had done alot in European history from the battle of normandy To be candid Normans appeared to be the most succesful group of the Vikings especially their invasion of England in 1066 the development of mordern english language with ablution from french language and also their contribution to mordern architecture and that from the invasion the whole of England had never since been defeated.The 11th century invasion and occupation of England by the group their army composed of thousands of Normans,Flemish and Bretons and men from French provinces led by Duke Of Normandy later styled William the Conqueror after conquest of all the four kingdoms of England.The childlessness of anglosaxon king Edward the confessor over which he was familiar agitated William 's hopes to press his claim to english throne.When he died in january 1066 he was succeeded by brotherinlaw Harold Godwinson.Shortly thereafter Norwegian king Harald Hardrada in september invaded northern england and victorious at the battle of fulford.In the battle of stamford bridge sept.25 Godwinson's army killed

and defeated him.William later invaded on september 28 with his men and hundreds of ships landed at Pevensey in Sussex,Southern England.Harold's army marched forward to oppose him and at the battle of Hasting Harold was murdered october 14 and William became king.He was not secure on the throne until after 1072 when remaining pockets of rebelion were completely crushed.He confiscated lands of resistant english elites and some fled to exile,land granted to followers,constructed castles in command of garrisons and military strongpoints in england.The Domesday Book the public manuscript documented the great survey of england and wales completed in 1086.Achivement involved classes including village life and most importantlty elimination of slavery w.A group of vikings and normans under their leader Rollo was allowed by the Carolingian french ruler Charles the simple to settle in normandy as part of the treaty of Saint Clair sur-epte.The norsemen exchanged land to provide protection along coast against vikings.