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By the end of 1990 the communist government had toppled, and a program to create a market economy had been implemented. The U.S.S.R. was officially dissolved on Dec. 25, 1991. Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.), or Soviet Union , Former republic, eastern Europe and northern and central Asia.
Dec 22, 2016 · The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.) was forged by a band of left-wing radicals, the Bolsheviks, who led an armed attack on the Russian government in February 1917, storming the...
Oct 31, 2013 · 31 October 2013. A chronology of key events: 1917 April - Lenin and other revolutionaries return to Russia from Germany. Gone but not forgotten: Many Russians still fondly remember the Soviet...
