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  Soviet Union - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
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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  Soviet Union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The formation of the Soviet Union was the culmination of the 1917 Russian Revolution, which overthrew Tsar Nicholas II, and later the Bolshevik victory in the Russian Civil War from 1918-1920.
The Soviet Union was established in December 1922 as the union of the Russian, 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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 CalendarHome.com - - Calendar Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The USSR was born and expanded as a union of Soviet republics formed within the territory of the Russian Empire abolished by the Russian Revolution of 1917 followed by the Russian Civil War of 1918–1921.
Soviet leaders argued that one party rule was necessary because it ensured that 'capitalist exploitation' would not return to the Soviet Union and that the principles of Democratic Centralism would represent the people's will.
The GRU (Main Intelligence Directorate), not publicized by the Soviet Union until the end of the Soviet era during perestroika, was created by Lenin in 1918 and served both as a centralized handler of military intelligence and as an institutional check-and-balance for the otherwise relatively unrestricted power of the KGB.
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 Soviet Union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The territory of the Soviet Union varied, and in its most recent times approximately corresponded to that of the late Imperial Russia, with notable exclusions of Poland and Finland.
After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Russian Federation claimed to be the legal successor to the Soviet Union on the international stage despite its loss of superpower status.
The Soviet Union was so large, in fact, that even after all associated republics gained independence, Russia remained the largest country by area, and still remains quite ethnically diverse, including, e.g., minorities of Tatars, Udmurts, and many other non-Russian ethnicities.
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 Soviet Union   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The formation of the Soviet Union was the culmination of the 1917 Russian Revolution, which overthrew Tsar Nicholas II, and later the Bolshevik victory in the Russian Civil War from 1918-1920.
The Soviet Union, founded three decades before the Cold War, became a primary model for future Communist nations; the socialist 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, Ukrainian, Belarusian, and Transcaucasian Soviet republics ruled by Bolshevik parties.
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 Soviet Union : USSR
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR or Soviet Union; Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, SSSR written in the Cyrillic alphabet as СССР) was a communist-ruled union with a totalitarian regime that existed from 1922 until 1991.
The Soviet Union was the successor state of the Russian Empire but was smaller as a result of the independence of Poland, Finland and the Baltic States.
The territory of the Soviet Union increased during its period of hostility with Nazi Germany.
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 Soviet Union
The Soviet Union is traditionally considered to be the successor of the
The Soviet Union was established in December 1922 as the union of the
A referendum for the preservation of the USSR was held on March 17, 1991, with the population voting for preservation of the Union in most republics.
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 SingaporeMoms - Parenting Encyclopedia - Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).(Russian: Сою́з Сове́тских Социалисти́ческих Респу́блик (СССР) ; tr.
The Soviet Union was established in December 1922 as the union of the Russian, Ukrainian, Belorussian, and Transcaucasian Soviet republics ruled by Bolshevik parties.
After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Russia claimed to be the legal successor to the Soviet Union on the international stage.
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Russia was by far the largest Republic in the Soviet Union, dominating in nearly all respects: land area, population, economic output, and political influence.
World War II established the Soviet Union as one of the two major world powers, a position maintained for four decades through military strength, aid to developing countries, and scientific research, especially into space technology and weaponry.
As the Soviet Union achieved rough nuclear parity with the United States, Cold War superpower competition between the Soviet Union and the U.S. gave way to Détente and a more complicated pattern of international relations in which the world was no longer clearly split into two clearly opposed blocs in the 1960s and 1970s.
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 Soviet Union   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR or Soviet Union; Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, SSSR written in the Cyrillic alphabet as СССР) was a communist-ruled union with a single-party system that existed from 1922 until 1991.
The territory of the Soviet Union increased during its period of hostility with Nazi Germany (known as the Great Patriotic War in the Soviet Union).
In retrospect the Soviet Union's greatest achievement was the destruction of the Nazi war machine - broken in the epic battles for Moscow, Leningrad, Stalingrad, Kursk and beyond.
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President Mikhail Gorbachev dramatically reformed the oppressive nature of the Soviet government in the 1980s with his glasnost (openness) program, under which people were no longer put to prison for criticizing the government.
The Soviet Union was the first country to base its economy on communist principles, where the state owned all the means of production and farming was collectivized.
The Soviet Union was so large, in fact, that even after all associated republics gained independence Russia, remains the largest country by area, and remained quite ethnically diverse, including, e.g., minorities of Tatars, Udmurts, and many other non-Russian ethnicities.
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 Soviet Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
A preservation of the USSR was held on March 17, 1991, with the population voting for preservation of the Union in most republics.
While doubts remained over their authority to dissolve the Union, on 25 December 1991, Gorbachev resigned as the president of the USSR and turned the powers of his office over to Boris Yeltsin, de facto accepting the end of the Soviet Union.
Jews were the victims of state-sponsored anti-semitism and were one of the few Soviet citizens allowed to emigrate from the countty.
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 SingaporeMoms - Parenting Encyclopedia - Culture of the Soviet Union
Soviet popular culture was characterized by fascination with American popular culture as exemplied by the blue jeans craze.
All media in the Soviet Union were controlled by the state including television and radio broadcasting, newspaper, magazine and book publishing.
It was the practice of libraries in the Soviet Union to restrict access to back issues of journals and newspapers more than 3 years old.
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 Vacilando.net on Union Of Soviet Socialist Republics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
By gradually consolidating his influence and isolating his rivals within the party, notably Lenin's more obvious heir Leon Trotsky, Joseph Stalin became the sole leader of the Soviet Union by the end of the 1920s.
Many organizations such as the Red Army and Police forces continued to remain in place in the early months of 1992 but were slowly phased out and either withdrawn from or absorbed by the newly independent states.
The Soviet Union measured some 10,000 kilometres (6,200 mi) from Kaliningrad on the Gulf of Gdańsk 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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 Russia: History, Geography, Government, and Culture — Infoplease.com
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was established as a federation on Dec. 30, 1922.
Trotsky was dismissed as commissar of war in 1925 and banished from the Soviet Union in 1929.
The U.S. Senate refused to ratify the treaty because of the invasion of Afghanistan by Soviet troops on Dec. 27, 1979.
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 Russia and the Former Soviet Republics Maps - Perry-Castañeda Map Collection - UT Library Online
Soviet Union - Administrative Divisions, 1984 1985 (374K) and pdf format (385K)
Soviet Union - East and South Asia 1987 (390K) and pdf format (392K)
Soviet Union - Muslim Population, 1979 1981 (179K)
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 Health and the Environment in the Former Soviet Union Part I:An Inteview with Murray Feshbach, September 1995   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The health of the people of the former Soviet Union and the condition of the environment are in decline.
Large scale industrial and agricultural pollution of air, water and soils continues to occur in the states of the former Soviet Union, a perverse experiment on the effects of pollution on public health.
They did not know the Soviet system at the time, they did not even know there was a Third Administration which had secret health data from nuclear, chemical and biological warfare accidents and they got no documents from that.
www.environmentalreview.org /vol02/feschba.html   (2946 words)

  
 Soviet Union - Wikinfo
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR or Soviet Union; Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, SSSR written in the Cyrillic alphabet as СССР) was a communist-ruled union with a single-party system that existed from 1922 until 1991.
(1944-1991) Hymn of the Soviet Union
Internet TLD .SU (still in use)
Unhappiness with the Russian involvement in World War I led to the Russian Revolution in 1917 and a resultant civil war, ending in the establishing of the Soviet Union, the first communist state, on December 30, 1922.
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 wikien.info: Main_Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
This articles details the demographics of the Soviet Union.
Ethnic groups: The Soviet Union was one of the world's most ethnically diverse countries, with more than 100 distinct national ethnicities living within its borders.
The Russian State Archive of the Economy: Soviet Censuses of 1937 and 1939 - Population figures for 1937 and 1939.
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