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History of the Soviet Union (1985-1991) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia History of the Soviet Union and Soviet Russia Following the death of the elderly Konstantin Chernenko, the Politburo elected Mikhail Gorbachev to the position of General Secretary of the Soviet Union in March 1985, marking the rise of a new generation of leadership. In all, the very positive view of Soviet life which had long been presented to the public by the official media was being rapidly dismantled, and the negative aspects of life in the Soviet Union were brought into the spotlight. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Collapse_of_the_Soviet_Union   (2647 words)

History of the Soviet Union (1953-1985) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia After Stalin had died in March 1953, he was succeeded by Nikita Khrushchev as First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party and Georgi Malenkov as Premier of the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union boycotted the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, retaliating for the United States boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. By 1982 the stagnation of the Soviet economy was obvious, as evidenced by the fact that the Soviet Union had been importing grain from the U.S. throughout the 1970s, but the system was not yet ready for drastic change. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Destalinization   (3368 words)

sociology - Soviet Union The Soviet Union was established in December 1922 as the union of the Russian, Ukrainian, Belorussian, and Transcaucasian Soviet republics ruled by Bolshevik parties. In contrast to the revolutionary spirit that accompanied the birth of the Soviet Union, the prevailing mood of the Soviet leadership at the time of Brezhnev's death in 1982 was one of aversion to change. The Soviet Union occupied the eastern portion of European continent and northern portion of Asian continent. www.aboutsociology.com /sociology/Soviet_Union   (4178 words)

Wikinfo Kievan Rus' History of Russia and the Soviet Union (1917-1927) Most Russian historians--especially in the Soviet era--have stressed the Slavic influence in the development of the state. Kievan Rus was the early Russian state dominated by the city of Kiev from about 860 to the middle of the 12th century. www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Kievan_Rus   (1452 words)

Richelson, Blanton and Byrne (1995) The Soviet estimate: U.S. analysis of the Soviet Union, 1947-1991 Soviet Union; Strategic forces; History; Sources; Defenses; 1953-1985; 1985-1991 Richelson, Blanton and Byrne (1995) The Soviet estimate: U.S. analysis of the Soviet Union, 1947-1991 The Soviet estimate: U.S. analysis of the Soviet Union, 1947-1991 www.getcited.org /?PUB=100294757&showStat=Ratings   (99 words)

[Leaders' Writings] Decisions of the 24th CPSU Congress--a programme of action for the Soviet trade unions; speech by Comrade L. Brezhnev, General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, at the 15th Congress of the Trade Unions of the USSR, 1972. Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1953-1985 -- Congresses. SUBJECTS: Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1953-1985. www.people.fas.harvard.edu /~martin11/leaders.html   (7368 words)

Untitled Document Hosking, Geoffrey, The Awakening of the Soviet Union. Naimark, Norman M., The Russians in Germany: A History of the Soviet Zone of Occupation, 1945-1949. Heer, Nancy Whittier, Politics and History in the Soviet Union. www.history.uiuc.edu /fac_dir/koenker_dir/hist328bib.html   (2700 words)

Russian History e-Resources Links Rulers of Russia and the Soviet Union (in Russian) Soviet (mainly literary) journals of the 1920s - e-texts of articles (in Russian) Below is a selection of sites set out as chronologies of Russian history, containing links to other sites and to translations of documents on the same site. www.uea.ac.uk /his/webcours/russia/links   (1304 words)

RUSSIA The Soviet Union was no successor to Rome or Constantinople but a new synthesis of the dialectic of history. When the Soviet Union fell, the Pretender to the Throne of Russia was the Grand Duke Vladimir, second cousin to the young Grand Duchesses. Although many in the West were aware of the famine at the time, the Soviet Union and its supporters conspired to suppress credible information about it. www.friesian.com /russia.htm   (8979 words)

Alekseeva and Goldberg (1990) The thaw generation: Coming of age in the post-Stalin era Soviet Union; History; 1953-1985; 1985-1991; Historians; Dissenters; Perestroæika; Glasnost; Biography; Alekseeva, Lëiìudmila The thaw generation: Coming of age in the post-Stalin era www.getcited.org /?PUB=102883886&showStat=Ratings   (101 words)

English-Language Russian/FSU History/Civilization Books HISTORY OF THE SOVIET UNION, 1945-1991: LAST OF THE EMPIRES. DISSOLUTION: SOVEREIGNTY AND THE BREAKUP OF THE SOVIET UNION. CONSTRUCTING ETHNOPOLITICS IN THE SOVIET UNION: SAMIZDAT, DEPRIVATION, AND THE RISE OF ETHNIC library.nyu.edu /research/slav/dk.html   (1471 words)

Through the Eyes of the Enemy: Russia's Highest Ranking Military Defector Reveals why Russia Is More Dangerous than Ever Keywords: book review, international, current_events, conspiracy, history, Russia, KGB, suitcase bomb, GRU spies, espionage, defectors, Soviet Union, biography, officials and employees, USSR, 1953-1985, 1985-1991. Subjects: Lunev, Stanislav, 1946- Defectors -- Soviet Union -- Biography. Abstract: Russian defector claims Russia poses a military threat to the United States. www.weyrich.com /book_reviews/eyes_enemy.html   (184 words)

Table of contents for Russia's sputnik generation Table of contents for Russia's sputnik generation : Soviet baby boomers talk about their lives / translated and edited by Donald J. Raleigh. Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog. www.loc.gov /catdir/toc/ecip0518/2005026057.html   (169 words)

Acquisitions, October 2002 Raising the Hunley : the remarkable history and recovery of the lost Confederate submarine. Chesapeake sails : a history of yachting on the bay. Seattle, WA : History Bank in association with the University of Washington Press, c2000. www.history.navy.mil /library/links/acquisoct.htm   (2434 words)

D Carrère d’Encausse, A History of the Soviet Union, 1917-1953, London, 1981; Lorimer, The Population of the Soviet Union: History and Prospects, Genève, 1946; Pinkus, The Jews of the Soviet Union: The History of a National Minority, Cambridge, 1988; www.h-net.org /~russia/teach/graziosi4.html   (8844 words)

project results As the project title reflects, this site conveys in detail seventeen moments in the history of the Soviet Union. Detailed information through texts and graphics on key moments in Soviet history. Users who want full access to the site must register and create a password. www.library.uiuc.edu /spx/inventory/retrieveproject.php?projectid=110   (53 words)

Articles - Cold War The period between the rise of Mikhail Gorbachev as Soviet leader in 1985 to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. The period between the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 and the rise of Mikhail Gorbachev as Soviet leader in 1985 was characterised by a marked "freeze" in relations between the superpowers after the "thaw" of the Détente period of the 1970s. Conservatives often argue that the primary cause of death of the Soviet Union was the massive fiscal spending on military technology that the Soviets saw as necessary in response to NATO´s increased armament of the 1980s. www.totalorange.com /articles/Cold_War   (5862 words)

Through the Eyes of the Enemy: Russia's Highest Ranking Military Defector Reveals why Russia Is More Dangerous than Ever Keywords: book review, international, current_events, conspiracy, history, Russia, KGB, suitcase bomb, GRU spies, espionage, defectors, Soviet Union, biography, officials and employees, USSR, 1953-1985, 1985-1991. Subjects: Lunev, Stanislav, 1946- Defectors -- Soviet Union -- Biography. Abstract: Russian defector claims Russia poses a military threat to the United States. www.weyrich.com /book_reviews/eyes_enemy.html   (184 words)

History of the Soviet Union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia On December 29, 1922 the RSFSR, the Transcaucasian Socialist Federated Soviet Republic, and the Byelorussian and Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republics signed a Treaty of Creation of the USSR forming the Soviet Union by a conference of the representatives, which was confirmed on December 30, 1922 by the 1st Congress of Soviets of the USSR. The highest executive body was the Politburo (see Organization of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union). Soviet Union: 1917-1927 • 1927-1953 • 1953-1985 • 1985-1991 en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_the_Soviet_Union   (184 words)

History of Science Society HSSOnline.org Two sources treating the early history of the Academy in the tsarist period are Alexander Lipski, "The Foundation of the Russian Academy of Sciences," Isis, 1953, 44:349-354 and Ludmilla Schulze, "The Russification of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences and Arts in the Eighteenth Century,Ó British Journal of the History of Science, 1985, 18:305-335. A topic in the history of Soviet science that touches on almost all scientific fields is the role of Marxism. Almost all outstanding scientists and engineers in the Soviet Union are members of an institute or have connections with one. www.hssonline.org /teach_res/essays/graham/grahamp1.html   (699 words)

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Brezhnev stagnation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia History of the Soviet Union (1953-1985): Brezhnev era The stagnation period (застой - zastoy in Russian) refers to a period of crisis in the history of the Soviet Union that started during Leonid Brezhnev's time as chairman of the Communist Party. The stagnation effectively continued under Brezhnev's successors, Yuri Andropov and Konstantin Chernenko, until the Perestroika social reform programme was initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev in 1985. www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Brezhnev_stagnation   (277 words)

[Harvard Biographies (S-Z)] ISBN: 1883695066 SUBJECT: Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isaevich, 1918- --Sources -- Authors, Russian -- 20th century -- Biography-- Political persecution -- Soviet Union-- History,1953-1985. The Solzhenitsyn files: secret Soviet documentsreveal one man's fight against the monolith. SUBJECT: Vasilevskii, Aleksandr Mikhailovich, -- 1895-Generals -- Soviet Union-- Biography. www.people.fas.harvard.edu /~martin11/BioH4.html   (277 words)

HISTORY OF POLAND The political and economic stalemate in Poland during the 1980s was broken by the appointment of Mikhail Gorbachev as Soviet leader in 1985 and the resulting liberalization of Soviet policy. During the liberalization that followed the death of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin in 1953, Polish artists, intellectuals, students, and workers raised demands for government reforms and a greater measure of freedom from Soviet control. Poland established or renewed diplomatic relations with the European Community (now the European Union), the republics of the former USSR, the Vatican, and Israel, and signed cooperation treaties with the newly unified Germany and a number of other European states. members.aol.com /IvoryBro66/poland3.html   (277 words)

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