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| | Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 |
 | | Soviet industry was owned and managed by the state, and agricultural land was divided into state farms, collective farms, and small, privately held plots. |
 | | Soviet foreign policy, long hampered by the hostility of the nations of Europe and America and by pervasive mutual distrust, was carried out first by Georgi Chicherin and from 1930 by Maxim M. Litvinov. |
 | | Increasing Soviet influence in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and Albania and the continued tight control of East Germany created fears in the Western world of unlimited Soviet expansion, as did the creation (1947) of the Cominform (which in a limited sense was the successor of the Comintern). |
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