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The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was dissolved on 26 December 1991 by Declaration № 142-Н of the Soviet of the Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, formally establishing the dissolution of the Soviet Union as a sovereign state and subject of international law. [1] It also brought an end to the Soviet Union's ...
- Three of Its Founding Members
1988–91 – the Novo-Ogorevo process (failed reformation into...
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Part of Georgian-Abkhaz conflict, Revolutions of 1989, and...
- Post-Soviet States
Name. In the political language of Russia and some other...
- Russian Tricolor
During the dissolution of the Soviet Union, after the 1991...
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It has also come to serve as the standard symbol...
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History Background. On August 18, 1917, the top Bolshevik...
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The Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic (Estonian SSR),...
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Result: Coup fails Self-dissolution of the GKChP; Failure of...
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The post –Cold War era is a period of history that follows...
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The process of decommunization and de-sovietization in...
- Three of Its Founding Members
The history of the Soviet Union from 1982 through 1991 spans the period from the Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev 's death until the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Due to the years of Soviet military buildup at the expense of domestic development, and complex systemic problems in the command economy, Soviet output stagnated.
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was dissolved on 26 December 1991 by Declaration № 142-Н of the Soviet of the Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, formally establishing the dissolution of the Soviet Union as a sovereign state and subject of international law. It also brought an end to the Soviet Union's federal government and General Secretary Mikhail ...
The history of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991 covers the dissolution of the Soviet Union. ("Dissolution" means ending or splitting up.) This was its end as a separate country . The Soviet Union had many regions called "republics". They all belonged to the Russian Empire before 1917. All these "republics" were part of the Soviet Union, and ...
Michel Garder was a French author who predicted the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the book L'Agonie du Regime en Russie Sovietique ( The Death Struggle of the Regime in Soviet Russia) (1965). He set the date of the collapse for 1970.
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 ...
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [r] ( USSR) [s], commonly known as the Soviet Union [t], was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. It was the largest country in the world by area, extending across eleven time zones and sharing land borders with twelve countries.
