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  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: List of leaders of the Soviet Union
Theoretically it was the highest position, since the Supreme Soviet was an interim organ of the Congress of Soviets, the latter being the supreme power of people, according to the Constitution of the Soviet Union.
The Congress of Soviets was the supreme governing body of the RSFSR and the Soviet Union in two periods, from 1917 to 1936 and from 1989 to 1991.
Premier of the Soviet Union is the commonly used English term for the offices of Chairman of the Council of Peoples Commissars of the USSR (Председатель Совета Народных Комиссаров СССР) (1923-1946) and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR (Председатель Совета Министров СССР) (1946-1991), who...
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 Soviet Union - Article about Soviet Union
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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 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Nikita Khrushchev
–September 11, 1971) was the chief director of the Soviet Union after the death of Joseph Stalin.
He was First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964 and Chairman of the Council of Ministers from 1958 to 1964.
Joseph Stalin, first General Secretary The General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (First Secretary in 1953-1966) was the title synonymous with leader of the Soviet Union after Vladimir Lenins death in 1924.
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 SparkNotes: John F. Kennedy: People, Terms, and Events
Nikita Khrushchev - Premier of the Soviet Union in the early 1960s, he was JFK's rival during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Communism - · The ideology of the Soviet Union, Communism predicted the overthrow of capitalism, the abolition of private property, and rule by the working class.
After World War II, the Soviet Union and the U.S. became rivals for global dominance, in a struggle termed the Cold War, since it never erupted in direct, or "hot," battles.
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  Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Chronology
The U.S. portion of the JVE is conducted on August 17, 1988, and the Soviet portion on September 14, 1988.
The Soviet Union rejects the verification provisions and presents counterproposals that are unacceptable to the United States and Britain.
The president states that the United States is prepared to explore Premier Khrushchev's proposal for a predetermined number of inspections in the territory of the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union, but adds that the number should be related to scientific facts and detection capabilities.
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  History of the Soviet Union (1953—1985)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
With this in mind, some Soviet and Russia specialists have argued that the Kosygin Reforms of 1965 — not Gorbachev's reforms in the 1980s — were the last chance to spare the leadership of the Soviet administrative command economy and to spare the population of the hardships that would surface in the late 1970s.
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.
The Soviet Union boycotted the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, retaliating for the United States boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.
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 Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal   (Site not responding. Last check: )
By the mid-1960s, the Soviet Union was a complex industrialized society with an intricate division of labor and with complex interconnection of industries over a huge geographical expanse that had reached military parity with the Western powers.
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.
The Soviet Union boycotted the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, retaliating for the United States boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.
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 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.
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.
Under Premier Joseph Stalin, the Soviet Union emerged from the World War II as a major world power with a territory including the Baltic States and a significant portion of the territory of pre-war Poland together with a substantial sphere of influence in Eastern Europe.
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 ipedia.com: Communist Party of the Soviet Union Article   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The aging Soviet leadership led to its being described as a gerontocracy.
Glasnost allowed freedom of speech in the Soviet Union and a flourishing of political debate within the Communist Party to a degree not seen since the Russian Revolution while perestroika was an attempt to restructure the political and particularly the economic organisation of the country.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the party became known as the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.
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 Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In the Soviet Union for example, the General Secretary of the Communist Party did not necessarily hold a state office like president or prime minister to effectively control the system of government.
Another factor for members of the Comintern aside from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was the degree to which leading members of the party were in or out of favour with Moscow.
The wishes of the Soviet leadership to promote or remove certain leaders, particularly in the 1930s and 1940s and again after Stalin's death, were particularly important.
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 The Infidels - Lenin
By the 1980's, every major city in the Soviet Union had a statue of Lenin in its central square, either a Lenin street or a Lenin square near the center, and often 20 or more smaller statues and busts throughout its territory.
Since the fall of the Soviet Union, the level of reverence for Lenin in post-Soviet republics has gone down considerably, but he is still considered an important figure by the people who grew up during the Soviet period.
The Soviet government commissioned the well-known German neuroscientist Oskar Vogt to study Lenin's brain and to locate the precise location of the brain cells that are responsible for Lenin's supposed "genius".
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 Vladimir Lenin at AllExperts
Even though Lenin advocated and helped to form a "Soviet democracy," it is often argued by Lenin's opponents on the right, like Kautsky, and on his left, like Kollontai, that he countermanded proletarian emancipation and democracy (workers' control through the soviets or workers' councils) by force.
Since the fall of the Soviet Union, the level of reverence for Lenin in post-Soviet republics has gone down considerably, but he is still considered an important figure by the generations who grew up during the Soviet period.
The Soviet government commissioned the well-known German neuroscientist Oskar Vogt to study Lenin's brain and to locate the precise location of the brain cells that are responsible for "genius".
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 Relations between the United States and the Soviet Union
It seemed that the Soviet Union, on its part, intended to apply psychological pressure on the People's Republic of China and, at the same time, to downgrade the effect of developments in Sino-American relations on international politics by showing anew that, in international politics, it is American-Soviet relations that are of basic importance.
In the economic field, Premier Kosygin expressed the Soviet Union's positive attitude, in his address to the Supreme Soviet (November 24), by stating that there now existed the conditions necessary for moving toward a broad economic interchange between the Soviet Union and the United States.
On the basis of this agreement, a Soviet delegation led by A. Manzhulo, Deputy Minister for Trade, visited the United States (January 6 to 17, 1972) and it seems that the Soviet delegation proposed a resumption of American-Soviet negotiations on the problem of the Soviet Union repaying its wartime debts to the United States.
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 FRUS, 1958-60, Vol. X, Part 1: 08 - Soviet Union
The Soviet leaders had not foreseen the revolution nor had they even heard of Kassem./9/ The Secretary said he could be persuaded that the Soviet Union had played no active part in the overthrow of the Nuri Government,/10/ but he was talking about activities that had taken place since then.
The Soviets had been assured by the Shah that he wanted to improve relations with the USSR and that Iranian territory would not be used against the Soviet Union and no foreign bases would be established.
The Soviet Union was suspicious of the United States intelligence service although it was headed by a very pleasant man, the brother of the Secretary of State, whom he had met last evening.
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In the Soviet Union, on the other hand, close to 40 percent of the country had been declared a "denied area".
At some point the Soviets would certainly be able to detect the U-2, but for a period they could do nothing about it, and in time they might become convinced of the futility of their obsessive secrecy.
He was the first Soviet leader to establish diplomatic relations with the United States and referred to President Eisenhower as his "friend", all during the rise of the Cold War.
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 Meeting Between Zhou Enlai and Kosygin At the Beijing Airport
In particular, the Soviet Union, in disregard of China’s sovereign rights, pressed China to subordinate itself to Soviet control in national defence and foreign affairs to serve the global strategy of the Soviet Union.
The Soviet Union further extended its provocations from the Wusuli River to the Heilong River, from the sector of the boundary along the river to the sector on land and from the eastern to the western sector.
Premier Zhou also stated then that debates between china and the Soviet Union on question of principles should not prevent the normalization of their state relations; that the two countries should not fight each other because of the boundary question; and that Sino-Soviet boundary negotiations should be conducted free from any threat.
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 Cuban Missile Crisis: United States
While “America was holding their breath as the possibility of nuclear world war grew greater and greater as the Soviet Union continued to supply Cuba with thermonuclear weapons” (http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?eu=28554&tocid=0).
Facing down the buildup of Soviet missiles in Cuba in 1962, President John F. Kennedy took a calculated risk and succeeded in negotiating the removal of those weapons after weeks of teetering on the brink of war.
While the United States and Soviet Union were always distrustful of one another, one of the key lessons of October 1962 was that both countries preferred a watchful peace to war.
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 Alexey Kosygin Summary
Kosygin travelled widely as Soviet premier, visiting the United States on a trip which included the celebrated meeting with President Lyndon Johnson at Glassboro State College in New Jersey at the height of the Vietnam War and a visit to the hydro-electric complex at Niagara Falls.
He served as Premier of the Soviet Union from 1964 to 1980.
When Khrushchev was dismissed as Soviet leader in October 1964, Kosygin took over Khrushchev's position as Soviet Premier in what initially was a troika with Leonid Brezhnev as General Secretary and Anastas Mikoyan, and later Nikolay Podgorny, as President.
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 Soviet Union - Demopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Afghan fighters, known as the Mujahideen, finally defeated the Soviet Union in February of 1989.
Following the defeat of the Soviets, the Mujahideen formed an Islamic government which was overthrown in 1996 by the Taliban.
During the 1980's, Premier Gorbachev led the Soviet Union in a process of gradual market reforms.
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 "Answers" That Produce No "Solutions"
Nikita Krushchev was the Premier of the Soviet Union for 11 years.
When he became premier, the Cold war between the Soviet Union and the United States began.
In 1964 Nikita Krushchev was deposed as Premier, and he became the first premier of the Soviet Union who did not die in office.
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 Cold War   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Joseph Stalin, the leader of the Soviet Union, had a repressive regime and those who did not agree with him were sent to forced-labor camps.
In his speech, Churchill recognized the Soviet Union was becoming a threat due to its expansion into eastern Europe and he coined the term "iron curtain".
Although the United States and Soviet Union never directly exchanged fire, their fight was conducted by proxies in the Korean War, Vietnam War, and many countries of Central America, Africa, and the Middle East.
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 This Day in History 1964: Khrushchev ousted as premier of Soviet Union
Nikita Khrushchev is ousted as both premier of the Soviet Union and chief of the Communist Party after 10 years in power.
He was succeeded as head of the Communist Party by his former protÉgÉ Leonid Brezhnev, who would eventually become the chief of state as well.
The new Soviet leadership increased military aid to the North Vietnamese without trying to persuade them to attempt a negotiated end to hostilities.
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 Flashback: This Month in History
Moscow, Sept. 11 -- Nikita Krushchev, the former premier of the Soviet Union, died in a Moscow hospital this morning after a massive heart attack.
Krushchev was the leader of the Soviet Union and the guiding hand of the world communist movement for six years, after succeeding Nikolai A. Bulganin as premier in 1958.
The new Soviet leaders, who deposed the flamboyant and unpredictable Krushchev in 1964, withheld the news of his death from the Soviet public tonight.
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 Missile Defense Forum - Gerold Yonas Speech
Soviet Foreign Minister Shevardnadze has stated that although they had a research program, they shut it down because it was just a vision that did not work, and we ought to shut down our entire research program.
The Soviets are claiming that we should not only pull our nuclear weapons out of Europe, but we ought not even to pursue a defense against short-range missiles -- even though they are developing their own SAX 12.
Not that we will expand them, but we have to convince the Soviet Union that we're not entering into a dead end — that if they come in with countermeasures, we'll be able to modify and expand our system and stay ahead of them.
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 China: the Struggle Within: Is There a U.S.-USSR Alliance Against China?
While collaborating with the revisionist Soviet leaders in order to undermine if not destroy the People's Republic of China with one hand, the Johnson Administration is at the same time, with the other hand, leaving no stone unturned to achieve the same objective with regard to the USSR.
But the motive for the embrace is to strangle the Soviet Union and not to befriend it.
It would also unnecessarily alienate millions upon millions of working people throughout the world, who know in their bones that all is not lost in the Soviet Union and would passionately defend it against imperialist aggression.
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 Term Papers Online - Term Papers N Term Papers
On the other hand the Soviet Union felt satisfied over these developments and decided to exploit the situation to her full advantage.
Soviet field commanders in Cuba were authorized to use tactical nuclear weapons if invaded by the U.S. The fate of millions literally hinged upon the ability of two men, President John F. Kennedy and Premier Nikita Khrushchev, to reach a compromise.1
The disintegration of USSR in 1991 and the failure of communism in the Soviet Union did not dampen the Cuban spirits and it continued to stick to socialism.
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