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  Soviet Union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Soviet Union became the primary model for future Communist states during the Cold War; the government and the political organization of the country were defined by the only permitted political party, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
The Soviet Union was established in December 1922 as the union of the Russian (colloquially known as Bolshevist Russia), Ukrainian, Belarusian, and Transcaucasian Soviet republics ruled by Bolshevik parties.
The Soviet Union occupied the eastern portion of the European continent and the northern portion of the Asian continent.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/1936 Soviet Constitution
The 1936 Soviet constitution, adopted on December 5, 1936, and also known as the "Stalin" constitution, redesigned the government of the Soviet Union.
The 1936 constitution changed the name of the Central Executive Committee to the Supreme Soviet of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Of the four Soviet constitutions, the 1936 constitution survived longest.
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 Soviet Union Encyclopedia Article @ LaunchBase.org (Launch Base)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Soviet troops intervened in the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and cited the Brezhnev Doctrine, the Soviet counterpart to the U.S. Moscow considered Eastern Europe to be a buffer zone for the forward defense of its western borders and ensured its control of the region by transforming the East European countries into satellite states.
The KGB (Committee for State Security), served in a fashion as the Soviet counterpart to both the FBI and the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) in the U.S. The foreign wing of the KGB was used to gather intelligence in countries around the globe.
The Soviet Union measured some 10,000 kilometres from Kaliningrad on the in the west to Ratmanova Island (Big Diomede Island) in the Bering Strait, or roughly equivalent to the distance from Edinburgh, Scotland, east to Nome, Alaska.
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 Joseph Stalin Article, JosephStalin Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Separatism,resistance to Soviet rule and collaboration with the invading Germans were cited as the main official reasons for thedeportations, although an ambition to ethnically cleanse regions ina process known as "Russification" may have also been a factor.
The relations between the Soviet Union and its former World War II western alliessoon broke down, and gave way to a prolonged period of tension and distrust between east and west known as the Cold War.
Under Stalin the Soviet Union was industrialised to the point that by the time of World War II the country was able to survive and defeat the German invasion, though at an enormous cost inhuman lives.
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 The Ultimate Joseph Stalin Dog Breeds Information Guide and Reference
Stalin molded the features that characterized the new Soviet regime; his policies, based on Marxist–Leninist ideology, are often considered to represent a political and economic system called Stalinism.
Under Stalin, who replaced the New Economic Policy (NEP) of the 1920s with five year plans (introduced in 1928) and collective farming, the Soviet Union was transformed from a peasant society to a major world industrial power by the end of the 1930s.
However, Soviet agriculture, which had been exploited to finance the industrialization drive, continued to show poor returns throughout the decade.
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