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1 day 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.
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5 days ago · On March 5, 1953, Joseph Stalin, the leader of the Soviet Union, died. For the first time since the death of Vladimir Lenin in 1924 the USSR was confronted with the issue of political succession. Just like Lenin, Stalin left no designated successor or power transfer process, but unlike in 1924, this problem occurred in the context of a politically stable superpower engaged in a global Cold War ...
2 days ago · Joseph Stalin. Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin [f] (born Dzhugashvili; [g] 18 December [ O.S. 6 December] 1878 – 5 March 1953) was a Soviet politician and revolutionary who was the longest-serving leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. He held power as General Secretary of the Communist Party from 1922 to 1952, and ...
1 day ago · The modern history of Russia began with the Russian Republic of the Soviet Union gaining more political and economical autonomy amidst the imminent dissolution of the USSR during 1988–1991, proclaiming its sovereignty inside the Union in June 1990, and electing its first President Boris Yeltsin a year later. The Russian SFSR (Soviet ...
5 days ago · In terms of subject-matter, Gorlizki and Khlevniuk’s Cold Peace: Stalin and the Soviet Ruling Circle, 1945–53 follows in this tradition, and their narrative is shaped around the key events, political intrigues and purges we have come to expect: post-war re-centralisation, the anti-cosmopolitan campaigns, the Leningrad Affair, the Doctor’s Plot a...
2 days ago · History of the Soviet Union. Background. 1917–1927: Establishment. 1927–1953: Stalinism. 1953–1964: Khrushchev Thaw. 1964–1982: Era of Stagnation. 1982–1991: Decline and collapse. Soviet leadership. Related topics. Soviet Union portal. v. t. e.
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3 days ago · German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, (August 23, 1939), nonaggression pact between Germany and the Soviet Union that was concluded only a few days before the beginning of World War II and which divided eastern Europe into German and Soviet spheres of influence. Vyacheslav Molotov.
