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2 days ago · Soviet Union (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; U.S.S.R.), former northern Eurasian empire (1917/22–1991) stretching from the Baltic and Black seas to the Pacific Ocean and, in its final years, consisting of 15 Soviet Socialist Republics. The capital was Moscow, then and now the capital of Russia.
- Economic Policy
Soviet Union - Command Economy, Five-Year Plans,...
- The Communist International
Soviet Union - Communism, Revolution, USSR: Lenin and his...
- Lenin's Disillusionment
Soviet Union - Lenin's Disillusionment: Lenin’s health began...
- The Brezhnev Era
Soviet Union - The Brezhnev era: The new collective...
- Lenin and The Bolsheviks
After the abortive Bolshevik July rising the chairmanship of...
- Brest-Litovsk
Soviet Union - Brest-Litovsk, Treaty, WWI: One of Lenin’s...
- Economic Policy
1 day ago · Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev [f] [g] (2 March 1931 – 30 August 2022) was a Soviet and Russian politician who served as the last leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to the country's dissolution in 1991.
1 day ago · Soviet Union - Revolution, Communism, USSR: Sometime in the middle of the 19th century, Russia entered a phase of internal crisis that in 1917 would culminate in revolution. Its causes were not so much economic or social as political and cultural.
13 hours ago · Following the Russian Civil War, the Russian SFSR established the Soviet Union with three other Soviet republics, within which it was the largest and principal constituent. At the expense of millions of lives , the Soviet Union underwent rapid industrialisation in the 1930s and later played a decisive role for the Allies in World War II by leading large-scale efforts on the Eastern Front .
13 hours ago · The Russian Civil War was a multi-party civil war in the former Russian Empire sparked by the overthrowing of the social-democratic Russian Provisional Government in the October Revolution, as many factions vied to determine Russia's political future.
- 7 November 1917-16 June 1923 [1] [2]
- Former Russian Empire
14 hours ago · Russia - Soviet Union, Cold War, Eurasia: The following is a general overview of the history of Russia during the period of Soviet domination. For full coverage of the history of the Soviet Union, see the article Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
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6 hours ago · India and Russia, taking from the legacy of Soviet times except during a short hiatus in the post-Soviet space, have continued to grow from strength to strength. This was especially so with the advent of President Vladimir Putin, who took over as President of the Russian Federation in 2000 and has only recently taken the oath of office for the fifth time for a six-year term.