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The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.
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La Unión Soviética fue establecida en diciembre de 1922, mediante la firma del Tratado de Creación de la URSS como la unión de las repúblicas socialistas soviéticas de Rusia (conocida como Rusia bolchevique), Ucrania, Bielorrusia y Transcaucasia gobernadas por partidos bolcheviques.
- 1917–1927: Establishment
- 1927–1953: Stalinism
- 1953–1964: Khrushchev Thaw
- 1964–1982: Era of Stagnation
- 1982–1991: Reforms and Dissolution
- Historiography
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The original philosophy of the state was primarily based on the works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. In its essence, Marx's theory stated that economic and political systems went through an inevitable evolution in form, by which the current capitalist system would be replaced by a Socialist state. Displeased by the relatively few changes made b...
The history of the Soviet Union between 1927 and 1953 covers the period of the Second World War and of victory against Nazi Germany while the USSR remained under the control of Joseph Stalin. Stalin sought to destroy his political rivals while transforming Soviet society with central planning, in particular a collectivization of agriculture and a d...
In the Soviet union, the eleven-year period from the death of Joseph Stalin (1953) to the political ouster of Nikita Khrushchev (1964), the national politics were dominated by the Cold War; the ideological U.S.–USSR struggle for the planetary domination of their respective socio–economic systems, and the defense of hegemonic spheres of influence. N...
The history of the Soviet Union from 1964 to 1982, referred to as the Brezhnev Era, covers the period of Leonid Brezhnev's rule of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics(USSR). This period began with high economic growth and soaring prosperity, but ended with a much weaker Soviet Union facing social, political, and economic stagnation. The average...
The history of the Soviet Union from 1982 through 1991, spans the period from Leonid Brezhnev's death and funeral until the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Failed attempts at reform, a standstill economy, and the success of the United States against the Soviet Union's forces in the war in Afghanistan led to a general feeling of discontent, especia...
Bibliography
1. Bibliography of the Russian Revolution and Civil War 2. Bibliography of Stalinism and the Soviet Union 3. Bibliography of the post-Stalinist Soviet Union 4. Bibliography of Ukrainian history 5. Historiography in the Soviet Union
Academic journals
1. List of Slavic studies journals
Conquest, Robert. The Great Terror: Stalin's Purge of the Thirties(1973).Daly, Jonathan and Leonid Trofimov, eds. "Russia in War and Revolution, 1914–1922: A Documentary History." (Indianapolis and Cambridge, MA: Hackett Publishing Company, 2009). ISBN 978-0-87220-987-9.Feis, Herbert. Churchill-Roosevelt-Stalin: The War they waged and the Peace they sought(1953).Figes, Orlando (1996). A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution: 1891–1924. Pimlico. ISBN 978-0-8050-9131-1. online no charge to borrowLa historia de la Unión Soviética comenzó en diciembre de 1922 [1] al suscribirse el Tratado de la Unión entre las repúblicas socialistas soviéticas de Rusia, Bielorrusia, Ucrania y Transcaucasia (Georgia, Azerbaiyán y Armenia) ya con los bolcheviques dirigiendo los soviets (consejos) de cada nación y habiendo resultado ganadores tras ...
6 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.
The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ( USSR ), was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. The country was a successor state to the Russian Empire; it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national republics, the largest and most populous of which was the Russian SFSR, but in ...