Cultural Centuries in European History

[Karpatsky]

Interesting. I would alter the last three to:

19th: 1789-1914
20th: 1914-1991
21st: 1991-present.

The fall of the Soviet Union is a much more significant milestone than 2014, and historians already talk about the 'long 19th century' with those dates.

[Karpatsky]

21st Century (1991-present): Boris Yeltsin

If this is meant to be people who most fundamentally changed the course of history, I would go with OBL/Putin.

[Karpatsky]

21st Century (1991-present): Boris Yeltsin

If this is meant to be people who most fundamentally changed the course of history, I would go with OBL/Putin.

Yeltsin:
1) Set up the possibility of future conflicts in Ukraine, the Caucasus, and the Baltics
2) Encouraged a semi-rivalry with both China and the United States, ensuring Russia never aligned too closely with either and established it’s own post-1991 Sphere of Influence
3) Established the Russian oligarchs and criminal organizations, which gives the Russian President a great degree of power
4) Reformed and expanded the Russian military + intelligence service post-KGB
5) Placed Putin and the Kadyrov family on the road to dominance

By those standards, you might replace Hitler with Hindenburg for the 20thc.