Charter to the Nobility. 1785. Rights and prerogatives of Russian nobility.

Chaykovsky, Nikolai. 1850-1926. Russian Socialist. Opposed Bolsheviks. Led counterrevolutionary government 1918-20.

Cheka. 1917-22. Russian secret police. GPU.

Chekhov, Anton. 1860-1904. Russian melancholic cynical novelist/dramatist: Seagull, Three Sisters.

Chicherin, Georgi. 1872-1936. Russian diplomat. Won recognition for Communist government.

Chuikov, Vasily. 1900-82. Russian WWII General. Defended Stalingrad.

Commune, Paris. 1871. Revolutionary government formed when Thiers abandoned Paris to Prussians. Crushed 2 months later by McMahon. 20,000 killed.

Congress Poland. 1815-64. Polish Kingdom created by Congress of Vienna. Ruled by Russian Czar.

Continental System. 1806-12. Napoleon’s European embargo vs Britain. Russian refusal led to 1812 Campaign. British retaliation led to Anglo-American War 1812.

Cossacks. Russian peasant soldiers.

Council of the Republic. 1917. Russian provisional government.

Crimean War. 1853-6. Russian attempt to get a Mediterranean port stopped by Turkey, England, France, Sardinia. Dispute over Holy places in Palestine.

Cyrillic. 9C Alphabet of Russian, Serbian, Bulgarian.

Czechoslovakia Intervention. 1968. Russian troops end Dubcek reform policies. Warsaw Pact maintains right to intervene anywhere Socialism is threatened.

Democratic Centralists. 1919-27. Russian Communists opposed to authoritarianism and bureaucracy.

Denikin, Anton. 1872-1947. Russian general of White Army, 1918-20.

Deulino, Truce. 1618-32. Russian Time of Troubles. Suspended Polish intervention.

Diaghilev, Sergei. 1872-1929. Russian. Founder of Ballet Russes (Paris) 1909.

Dmitri. -1591. Murdered heir to Russian throne. Gudunov. Time of Troubles. 1605-12 three “False Dmitris” claim throne.

Dogger Bank Incident. 1904. Russians sink British North Sea fishing trawlers believing them to be Japanese torpedo boats. Compensation paid. Russo-Japanese War.

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. 1821-81. Russian psychological writer. Crime and Punishment 1866. Idiot 1868. Brothers Karamazov 1880. Exiled to Siberia 1849-59.

Dukhobors. 1755-. Russian Christian pacifist, anarchist sect. Leaders claimed to be Christ reincarnated. Tolstoy sponsored emigration to Canada, 1898.

Duma. 1906-17. Russian parliament created by Nicholas II after Revolution.

Eisenstein, Sergei. 1898-1948. Russian filmmaker: Potemkin 1925. Alexander Nevsky 1938.

Emancipation Edict. 1861. Freed Russian serfs. Gave land allotment, paid by loans.

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