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Reform of Government

Russia · Government / Government of Russia. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

15Records
996–2006Date range
8Named people
1Places

Chronological records

996

Yaroslav the Wise996

Government / Government of Russia

Russkaya Pravda, the first written compilation of Russian law, completed under Yaroslav the Wise, Grand Prince of Kiev

1652

Alexis I Mikhaylovich1652

Government / Government of Russia

Begins reforms of the Russian Church based on the Greek Church

Patriarch Nikon1652

Moscow · Government / Government of Russia

Begins to reform the Russian Church on the Greek Church

1920

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin1920

Moscow · Government / Government of Russia

Forwards the 21 Points requiring national parties to impose disciplined guidlines

1958

Nikita Sergeyevich KhruschevDecember 1958

Moscow · Government / Government of Russia

The category "enemies of the people" is eliminated

1961

Nikita Sergeyevich Khruschev14 October 1961

Moscow · Government / Government of Russia

Defined as a party of the whole people rather than a dictatorship of the proletariat

1987

Mikhail Sergeyevich GorbachevFebruary 1987

Moscow · Government / Government of Russia

Creates co-operative businesses in catering, services & consumer goods manafacture

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev1987

Moscow · Government / Government of Russia

Creates co-operative businesses in catering, services & consumer goods manafacture. New law on "socialist enerprise"

1988

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev9 January 1988

Government / Government of Russia

1st advertisement in a Soviet newspaper appears in Izvestiya

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev28 June 1988

Moscow · Government / Government of Russia

Addresses a special Communist Party conference & outlines "a new image of socialism"

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev1988

Moscow · Government / Government of Russia

Removes the Party from economic management

1990

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev1990

Moscow · Government / Government of Russia

Stresses "values common to all mankind" over the "class struggle"

1991

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev25 July 1991

Government / Government of Russia

Gorbachev urges Communist leaders at a Central Committee meeting to reject "outdated ideological dogmas" and embrace a market economy

Viktor Pavlovich BarannikovSeptember 1991

Moscow · Government / Government of Russia

Ends all party & political activities in the MVD

2006

Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin13 September 2006

Government / Government of Russia

In his Annual speech Putin proposes increasing maternity benefits and prenatal care for women

Names involved

Alexis I MikhaylovichMikhail Sergeyevich GorbachevNikita Sergeyevich KhruschevPatriarch NikonViktor Pavlovich BarannikovVladimir Ilyich Ulyanov LeninVladimir Vladimirovich PutinYaroslav the Wise

Provenance

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