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Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), Rus. Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, former republic. It was established in 1922 and dissolved in 1991. The Soviet Union was the first state to be based on Marxist socialism (see also Marxism ; communism ). Until 1989 the Communist... Read more |
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Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty 1987
INTERMEDIATE-RANGE NUCLEAR FORCES TREATY The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty of 1987 (INF) was the first nuclear weapons agreement requiring the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.) to reduce, rather than merely limit, their arsenals of nuclear... Read more |
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Bishkek
Bishkek , formerly Frunze , city (1993 est. pop. 640,700), capital of Kyrgyzstan, on the Chu River and on a branch of the Turkistan-Siberia RR. It is a rail and highway hub and the industrial and cultural center of Kyrgyzstan. Its meatpacking and agricultural machine plants were among the largest... Read more |
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Agin-Buryat Autonomous Area
Russia officially the Russian Federation, Rus. Rossiya, republic (2005 est. pop. 143,420,000), 6,591,100 sq mi (17,070,949 sq km). The country is bounded by Norway and Finland in the northwest; by Estonia, Latvia, Belarus, and Ukraine in the west; by Georgia and Azerbaijan in the southwest;... Read more |
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Russia
Russia officially the Russian Federation, Rus. Rossiya, republic (2005 est. pop. 143,420,000), 6,591,100 sq mi (17,070,949 sq km). The country is bounded by Norway and Finland in the northwest; by Estonia, Latvia, Belarus, and Ukraine in the west; by Georgia and Azerbaijan in the southwest;... Read more |
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Soviet Union. TASS
TASS TASS, the Telegraph Agency of the USSR, was founded in July 1925 with the goal of centralizing control over the distribution of foreign news in the Soviet Union under the oversight of the Commissariat of Foreign Affairs and the Soviet of Peoples' Commissars (Sovnarkom ). Until the collapse of... Read more |
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USSR
USSR For the fighting in the USSR, see BARBAROSSA and German–Soviet war; see also entries for Baltic States, Belorussia, Bessarabia, Bukovina, Caucasus, Russia, and Ukraine.1. IntroductionThe USSR was an active participant in the Second World War from start to finish, from September 1939... Read more |
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German reunification 1990
Council of Foreign Ministers organization of the foreign ministers of the World War II Allies—the United States, Great Britain, France, and the USSR—that, in a long series of meetings, attempted to reach political settlements after the war. In accordance with the agreements reached at... Read more |
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soviet
soviet primary unit in the political organization of the former USSR. The term is the Russian word for council. The first soviets were revolutionary committees organized by Russian socialists in the Revolution of 1905 among striking factory workers. When the Russian Revolution broke out in 1917,... Read more |
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Walter Ulbricht
Walter Ulbricht , 1893-1973, Communist leader in the German Democratic Republic. A founder of the German Communist party, he fled Germany in 1933 and went to Moscow, where he was a member of the politburo of the exiled German Communist party. Ulbricht entered Germany with the Russian troops in 1945.... Read more |
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Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, see USSR. |
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Soviet Union
Soviet Union (officially Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, USSR) Former federal republic, successor to the Russian Empire and the world...a return to a mixed economy. In 1922, the ... |
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NATO
...alliance to deter the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics' (USSR) expansion on the...of influence, the USSR had annexed Czechoslovakia...1952. The Federal Republic of Germany joined...component of NATO.The ... |
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communism
...themselves ‘socialists’, their movement...Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) entirely...outnumbered by socialist rivals both...reconquered most of the republics which had taken...Republics or USSR ... |
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USSR
USSR Abbreviation of Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, see Soviet Union |
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Estonia
...an independent republic and ended it as...component of the USSR.In 1939, Estonia...motivated by fears of Soviet agitation and...signed with the USSR in January 1920...guaranteed by the Soviet–Estonian Non...Estonian Soviet ... |
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Bukovina
...ultimatum presented by the Soviet government to Romania...Russian Empire, the USSR was able to base its...incorporated into the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. The recovery of Northern...German invasion of the Soviet ... |
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Soviet Union
Soviet Union (Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, USSR) A state formally constituted...of former Tsarist Russia, the USSR was founded on 30 December 1922...only nominal autonomy within the ... |
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USSR
USSR Union of Soviet Socialist Republics |
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Moldova
...south. It became an Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic within the USSR in 1924, and reached its present...its entirety as part of the USSR in 1947. It declared its independence from the moribund Soviet ... |
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Azerbaijan
...and Iran 1. The Republic of Azerbaijan...the Azerbaijani Soviet Socialist Republic (1936...Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Socialist...which joined the USSR in 1922; the Soviet ... |
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Ukraine
...a founding member of the USSR as the Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic (1922). As the USSR's most fertile agricultural...by Crimean demands for union with Russia. The government...followed the breakup of the ... |
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Armenia
...ColombiaUrartu The Republic of Armenia (Hayastani...independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. Previously the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic (1936...the Transcaucasus Soviet Federative ... |
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Turkmenistan
...the Turkestan Soviet Socialist Autonomous Republic in 1921, and...formally joining the USSR in 1925. In response...in the Soviet Union, and productivity...living, the Soviet Union subsidized ... |
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Kyrgyzstan
...the Turkestan Soviet Republic in 1918. It...formally joined the USSR as an Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic in 1926. In...member of the Union of Socialist Soviet ... |
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Tadzhikistan
...of the Turkestan Socialist Soviet Republic in 1918. As an Autonomous Soviet Republic within Uzbekistan...joined the Soviet Union in 1925. In 1929...component of the USSR. Until the ... |
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Kazakhstan
...joined the Soviet Union as an integral...the Russian Socialist Soviet Republic in 1922...Socialist Republic, and in 1936...member of the Union. During Stalin...parts of the ... |
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The Soviet economy--an experiment that was bound to fail? Vincent Barnett...
...collapse of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (the USSR) at the end...existence of the USSR was a defining...origins of the USSR in the environment...instead of the socialist political ... |
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REVIEW: Shock therapist shines light on USSR.
...collapse of the Soviet Union. But his analysis...Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) in the early...implosion of the USSR in this book...is simple. The USSR fell ... |
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Communists demand revival of USSR.
...Communists demand revival of USSR Moscow, Aug 19 (PTI...Putin and revival of the Soviet Union. They assembled in front...read 'Let's revive USSR, Our Common Home...of the Union of Soviet Socialist ... |
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'Russia' doesn't exist for India, it's 'USSR' still
...A lot, when a country once called the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) breaks up, and its largest chunk officially...are still registered in the name of "the USSR", even though the USSR ... |
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Gemini announces USSR contracts. (Gemini Technology Inc.)
GEMINI ANNOUNCES USSR CONTRACTS RICHMOND, British Columbia, Jan. 31 /PRNewswire...systems to major, non-government organizations in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). The company also announced that, to ensure a ... |
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Russia doesn't exist for india, 'ussr' still does
...a name? A lot, when a country once called the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) breaks up, and its largest chunk officially...in India are still registered in the name of "USSR", even though Russia made the change ... |
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Union Carbide Corp.-Shell Unipol PP process to be used in polypropylene...
...April 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Union Carbide Corporation (NYSE...to be built in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). The USSR polypropylene complex will be...V/O Techmashimport of the ... |
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CONFERENCE TO DISCUSS THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FALL OF THE SOVIET UNION
...commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Soviet Union. It will be from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the...Matlock, a former U. S. ambassador to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), William ... |
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Thoughts on leftists, progressives and socialists
...Build A Socialist Alternative...International Union, stalwarts...unappreciated is that socialists and communists...talking about? Socialists, communists...National Socialist German Workers...Union of Soviet ... |
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Obama Pursuing Socialist Agenda for America
...national lexicon since the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) collapsed because of Ronald...policies, and the National Socialist (Nazi) Party was destroyed...supporters: the United Auto Workers ... |
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