9k:RD/ Russian Empire (Q20,0,16)

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Russian Empire (c.1721-1917) [1] [2] -> wow. Russia became an imperial power deep in the middle of feudalism at about the same time the United States became a bourgeois republic.
it's like that one Cleopatra fact. time ghost strikes again. [3]

Soviet Union during Lenin (1917-1925) / (9k)
early Soviet Union (1917-1956) / Soviet Union before Khruschev
Stalin era (1925-1953) / (9k)
Stalin era (1925-1953) -> you can also argue this is strawberry.
Khruschevite era (1956-1991) / late Soviet Union (1956-1991) -> you can mark the biggest, most externally visible change in the Soviet Union at any time from about 1953-1956. as far as I can tell this moment was more important than 1991 because in terms of taking the Soviet Union apart there was still "a lot to do".
late Soviet Union (1953-1991)
Russia (1991-) / new Russian empire

Timeghost (XKCD) [4]
Cleopatra lived closer to the first moon landing than when the Great Pyramid at Giza was built; the Great Pyramid was finished 2,500 years before Cleopatra in about 2560 BC and the first crewed moon landing (manned mission; not space probe) happened 2,000 years after Cleopatra in 1969 [5] [6] [7] / Cleopatra lived closer to the Vietnam War than when the Great Pyramid at Giza was built; the Vietnam War started in 1955 -> when you think about it, part of what this actually "brings into perspective" is how slowly anything interesting happens in feudal orders / warring states periods. during ancient Egypt, the time spans we're comparing with today are thousands of years long. but when you think of a "time ghost" related to the Russian revolution the time spans are only around 100-200 years long.