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UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS Introduction Coat of arms of the Soviet Union 1 The flag of the Soviet Union The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, 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. A successor state to the Russian Empire, the country was nominally organized as a federal union of fifteen national republics, the largest and most populous of which was the Russian SFSR; in practice both its government and economy were highly centralized until its final years. It was the world's third-most populous country and Europe's most populous country. As a one-party state governed by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, it was a flagship communist state. Its capital as well its largest city was Moscow. Other highly urbanized centers were Leningrad, Kiev, Tashkent and Baku. The Soviet Union's roots lay in the October Revolution of 1917, which saw the Bolsheviks overthrow the Russian Provisional Government that formed earlier that year following the February Revolution that had dissolved the Russian Empire. The new government, led by Vladimir Lenin, established the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR), the world's first constitutionally socialist state. The revolution was not accepted by all within the Russian Republic, resulting in the Russian Civil War between the Bolsheviks and the anti-communist Whites. As the war progressed in the Bolsheviks' favor, the RSFSR began to incorporate land acquired from the war into various puppet states, which were merged into the Soviet Union in December 1922. Following Lenin's death in 1924, Joseph Stalin came to power, inaugurating a period of rapid industrialization and forced collectivization that led to significant economic growth, but also contributed to a famine between 1930 and 1933 that killed millions. The forced labour camp system of the Gulag was also expanded in this period. During the late 1930s, Stalin conducted the Great Purge to remove actual and perceived opponents, resulting in mass death, imprisonment, and deportation. In 1939, the USSR and Nazi Germany signed a nonaggression pact despite their ideological incongruence; nonetheless, in 1941, Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union in the largest land invasion in history, opening the Eastern Front of World War II. The Soviets played a decisive role in defeating the Axis powers in 1945, suffering an estimated 27 million casualties, which accounted for the majority of Allied losses. In the aftermath of the war, the Soviet Union consolidated the territory occupied by the Red Army, forming various satellite states, and undertook rapid economic development which cemented its status as a superpower. Following World War II, ideological tensions with the United States eventually led to the Cold War. The American-led Western Bloc coalesced into NATO in 1949, prompting the Soviet Union to form its own military alliance, commonly known as the Warsaw Pact, in 1955. Neither side ever engaged in direct military confrontation, and instead fought on an ideological basis and through proxy wars. In 1953, following Stalin's death, the Soviet Union undertook a campaign of de-Stalinization under the leadership of Nikita Khrushchev, which saw reversals and rejections of Stalinist policies. This campaign caused tensions with Communist China. During the 1950s, the Soviet Union rapidly expanded its efforts in space exploration and took an early lead in the Space Race with the first artificial satellite, the first human spaceflight, the first space station, and the first probe to land on another planet (Venus). The Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 was the closest the Cold War came to escalating into full-scale nuclear war. The 1970s saw a brief détente in the Soviet Union's relationship with the United States, but tensions emerged again following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. From 1985, the last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, sought to reform the country through his policies of glasnost and perestroika. In 1989, various countries of the Warsaw Pact overthrew their Soviet-backed regimes, and nationalist and separatist movements erupted across the entire Soviet Union. In 1991, amid efforts to reform and preserve the country as a renewed federation, an attempted coup d'état against Gorbachev by hardline communists prompted the three most populous and economically developed republics—Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus—to secede from the Union. On December 26, Gorbachev officially recognized the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Boris Yeltsin, the leader of the RSFSR, oversaw its reconstitution into the Russian Federation, which became the Soviet Union's successor state; all other republics emerged as fully independent post-Soviet states. During its existence, the Soviet Union produced many significant social and technological achievements and innovations. It had the world's second-largest economy and largest standing military. An NPT-designated state, it wielded the largest arsenal of nuclear weapons in the world. As an Allied nation, it was a founding member of the United Nations as well as one of the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council. Before its dissolution, the USSR was one of the world's two superpowers through its hegemony in Eastern Europe, global diplomatic and ideological influence (particularly in the Global South), military and economic strengths, and scientific accomplishments. (Full article...) Recognized article - Entries here consist of Good and Featured articles, which meet a core set of high editorial standards. Lenin in a police photograph from December 1895 The Russian communist revolutionary and politician Vladimir Lenin began his active revolutionary activity in 1892, and continued till assuming power in the Russian Revolution of 1917. Following on from his early life, during which he had become devoted to the cause of revolution against the Tsarist regime in the Russian Empire and converted to Marxism, Lenin moved to St. Petersburg. There he joined a revolutionary cell, and became a vocal advocate for Marxism within the revolutionary socialist movement. Entering a relationship with fellow Marxist Nadezhda Krupskaya, he toured Western Europe to build ties with other Russian revolutionary emigres and learn more about the international Marxist movement. Upon returning to Russia, he was arrested for sedition in 1895 and exiled to Shushenskoye in the Minusinsky District of eastern Siberia for three years. There, he devoted his time to translating and writing revolutionary texts, marrying Krupskaya in July 1898. His exile over, in 1900 he moved to Western Europe, where he joined the editorial board of Iskra, the publication of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP). Iskras base was moved from Munich to London and then to Geneva, each time accompanied by Lenin. At the party's second congress, held in London in 1903, a major schism erupted between Lenin and his supporters (the Bolsheviks) and Julius Martov and his supporters (the Mensheviks); Lenin emphasised a strongly centralised party controlled largely by the leadership, whereas Martov accepted a wider party with more independence of thought. Lenin returned to Russia briefly during the Revolution of 1905, but fled again when the Tsarist authorities defeated the revolutionary forces and cracked down on dissent. ('Full article...) List of recognized articles Ministry of Finance (Soviet Union) Katyn massacre Mikoyan-Gurevich I-250 Bezhin Meadow Tear down this wall! Battle of Moscow T-34 Tupolev Tu-142 Legacy of Leonid Brezhnev Second Battle of Kharkov Transport in the Soviet Union Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Soviet Union) Operation Uranus Wage reform in the Soviet Union, 1956–1962 Winter War First Nagorno-Karabakh War 2nd Red Banner Army Socialist Soviet Republic of Abkhazia Hungarian Revolution of 1956 Laika Battle of Radzymin (1920) 68th Mountain Rifle Division 5th Mechanised Corps (Soviet Union) Deportation of the Crimean Tatars History of the Soviet Union (1964–1982) Lavochkin La-7 Katyusha rocket launcher Legacy of Leonid Brezhnev Continuation War Death and state funeral of Leonid Brezhnev Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Soviet Union) Ministry of Justice (Soviet Union) Ministry of Finance (Soviet Union) Lysenkoism Soviet–Albanian split Raid on Constanța Political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union History of computing in the Soviet Union Mir Sputnik 1 Punch-up in Piestany Solaris (1972 film) Background of the Winter War Transport in the Soviet Union Welles Declaration Zond 5 Tartu Offensive Swimming at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 × 100 metre medley relay Summit Series Selected picture A sword over a shield, and a ribbon with Russian text on it. There is a red star with a hammer and sickle on the center of the sword. The KGB was an essential part of the Soviet Union's internal security and intelligence. Did you know... - ... that the Gorno-Altai Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic lasted for only nine months as an Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic before the dissolution of the Soviet Union, which turned it into the Altai Republic? ... that tickets bought for the ceremonial opening of Kiev Republican Stadium scheduled for June 22, 1941 were still valid 7 years later, as the event was "postponed until after the Victory" due to the Nazi invasion to the USSR? ... that the Soviet 383rd Rifle Division was originally comprised completely of miners, from the Ukrainian Donets Basin? ... that collective leadership was seen as the ideal form of governance by Soviet ideologists during the rules of Georgy Malenkov, Nikita Khrushchev and Leonid Brezhnev? Selected quote WikiProjects What are WikiProjects? Selected biography - Molotov in 1945 Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich Molotov (né Skryabin; 9 March [O. S. 25 February] 1890 – 8 November 1986) was a Soviet politician and diplomat who was a leading figure in the Soviet government as a close ally of Joseph Stalin. He served as Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars (head of government) from 1930 to 1941, and as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1939 to 1949 and again from 1953 to 1956. An Old Bolshevik, Molotov joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1906 and was arrested and internally exiled twice before the October Revolution of 1917. He briefly headed the party's Secretariat before supporting Stalin's rise to power in the 1920s, becoming one of his closest associates. Molotov was made a full member of the Politburo in 1926 and became premier in 1930, overseeing Stalin's agricultural collectivization (and resulting famine) and his Great Purge. As foreign minister from 1939, Molotov signed the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact with Nazi Germany, and during the Second World War was deputy chairman of the State Defense Committee and Stalin's main negotiator with the Allies. After the war, he began to lose favour, losing his ministership in 1948 before being criticized by Stalin at the 19th Party Congress in 1952. (Full article...) List of selected biographies Nikita Khrushchev Lavrentiy Beria George Koval El Lissitzky Dmitri Shostakovich Alexei Kosygin Mikhail Suslov Alexander Alekhine Pavel Bure Gennady Yanayev Andrei Kirilenko (politician) Lev Chernyi Eduard Streltsov Valentin Pavlov Samantha Smith Ivan Bagramyan Guy Burgess Sergo Ordzhonikidze Vladimir Lenin General images The following are images from various Soviet Union-related articles on Wikipedia. Russian troops in trenches awaiting a German attack (from Russian Revolution) Provisional Government's volunteer soldiers secure Petrograd's Palace Square with the Austin Armoured Car, summer 1917. (from Russian Revolution) From left to right, the Soviet General Secretary Joseph Stalin, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill confer in Tehran, 1943 (from Soviet Union) Mikhail Gorbachev in one-to-one discussions with US President Ronald Reagan (left), 1985 (from Soviet Union) On 21 December 1991, the leaders of 11 former Soviet republics, including Russia and Ukraine, agreed to the Alma-Ata Protocols, formally establishing the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). (from Soviet Union) Red Guard unit of the Vulkan factory in Petrograd, October 1917 (from October Revolution) Forward gun of Aurora that fired the signal shot (from October Revolution) U.S. Lend Lease shipments to the USSR. During the war the USSR provided an unknown number of shipments of rare minerals to the US Treasury as a form of cashless repayment of Lend-Lease. (from Soviet Union) Murder of the Romanov family, Le Petit Journal (from Russian Revolution) Nikolai Podgorny visiting Tampere, Finland on 16 October 1969 (from Soviet Union) Stalin and Lavrentiy Beria with Stalin's daughter, Svetlana, on his lap. As head of the NKVD, Beria was responsible for many political repressions in the Soviet Union. (from Soviet Union) Bolshevik (1920) by Boris Kustodiev (from October Revolution) Soldiers marching in Petrograd, March 1917 (from Russian Revolution) The elections to the Constituent Assembly took place in November 1917. The Bolsheviks won 24% of the vote. (from October Revolution) Republics of the Soviet Union in 1954–1991 (from Soviet Union) Russian troops meeting German troops in No Man's Land (from Russian Revolution) Revolutionaries protesting in February 1917 (from Russian Revolution) Changes in national boundaries after the end of the Cold War (from Soviet Union) Five Marshals of the Soviet Union in 1935. Only two of them—Budyonny and Voroshilov—survived the Great Purge. Blyukher, Yegorov and Tukhachevsky were executed. (from Soviet Union) Cruiser Aurora (from October Revolution) Internally displaced Azerbaijanis from Nagorno-Karabakh, 1993 (from Soviet Union) Soviet general secretary Leonid Brezhnev and US President Jimmy Carter sign the SALT II arms limitation treaty in Vienna on 18 June 1979. (from Soviet Union) Russian Civil War in the European part of Russia (from Soviet Union) A scene from the July Days. The army has just opened fire on street protesters. (from October Revolution) Soldiers blocking Narva Gate on Bloody Sunday (from Russian Revolution) The dissolution of the Constituent Assembly on 6 January 1918. The Tauride Palace is locked and guarded by Trotsky, Sverdlov, Zinoviev, and Lashevich. (from October Revolution) Anniversary of October Revolution in Riga, Soviet Union in 1988 (from October Revolution) The Soviet famine of 1930–1933, with areas where the effects of famine were most severe shaded (from Soviet Union) The 2nd Moscow Women Death Battalion protecting the Winter Palace as the last guards of the stronghold (from Russian Revolution) "Pogrom in the Winter Palace" by Ivan Vladimirov (from October Revolution) Petrograd Milrevcom proclamation about the deposing of the Russian Provisional Government (from October Revolution) Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev (left) with US President John F. Kennedy in Vienna, 3 June 1961 (from Soviet Union) Russian peasants holding banners of Lenin (left), Marx (centre) and Trotsky (right) in early Soviet Russia. (from Russian Revolution) Map showing the greatest territorial extent of the Soviet Union and the sovereign states that it dominated politically, economically and militarily in 1960, after the Cuban Revolution of 1959 but before the official Sino-Soviet split of 1961 (total area: c. 35,000,000 km2) (from Soviet Union) Dissolution of the elected Russian Constituent Assembly by the Bolsheviks on 6 January 1918 (from Soviet Union) Residents of Leningrad leave their homes destroyed by German bombing. About 1 million civilians died during the 871-day Siege of Leningrad, mostly from starvation. (from Soviet Union) Revolutionaries attacking the tsarist police in the early days of the February Revolution (from Russian Revolution) The Battle of Stalingrad, considered by many historians as a decisive turning point of World War II (from Soviet Union) The Pan-European Picnic took place in August 1989 on the Hungarian-Austrian border. (from Soviet Union) The dissolution of the Constituent Assembly on 6 January 1918. The Tauride Palace is locked and guarded by Trotsky, Sverdlov, Zinoviev and Lashevich. (from Russian Revolution) Lenin, Trotsky and Kamenev celebrating the second anniversary of the October Revolution (from October Revolution) The New York Times headline from 9 November 1917 (from October Revolution) The Russian famine of 1921–22 killed an estimated 5 million people. (from Soviet Union) Lenin, Trotsky and Kamenev celebrating the second anniversary of the October Revolution (from Soviet Union) American, British, and Japanese Troops parade through Vladivostok in armed support to the White Army. (from Russian Revolution) A revolutionary meeting of Russian soldiers in March 1917 in Dalkarby of Jomala, Åland (from Russian Revolution) Country emblems of the Soviet Republics before and after the dissolution of the Soviet Union (the Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic (fifth in the second row) no longer exists as a political entity of any kind and the emblem is unofficial.) (from Soviet Union) T-80 tank on Red Square during the August Coup (from Soviet Union) The Petrograd Soviet Assembly meeting in 1917 (from Russian Revolution) European theatre of the Russian Civil War in 1918 (from October Revolution) Meeting before the Russian wire entanglements (from Russian Revolution) Construction of the bridge through the Kolyma (part of the Road of Bones from Magadan to Jakutsk) by the prisoners of Dalstroy (from Soviet Union) Soviet painting Vladimir Lenin, by Isaac Brodsky (from Russian Revolution) Selected anniversaries for May International Labor Day - 1 and 2 May - celebrated with elaborate popular parade in the centre of the major cities Radio Day - May 7 - is a commemoration of the development of radio in Russia. Victory Day - 9 May - end of Great Patriotic War, marked by capitulation of Nazi Germany, 1945 More anniversaries ... More Did you know (auto generated) ... that economist and anti-apartheid activist Vella Pillay arranged for South African revolutionaries to receive military training in the Soviet Union and China? ... that Hometown Village is a community of Sakhalin Koreans who were finally allowed to return to South Korea after the dissolution of the Soviet Union? ... that All Nations Baptist Church in New York City is primarily associated with ethnic Koreans of the former Soviet Union? ... that the Lviv branch of the Ukrderzh­nats­menvydav was the main publisher of Polish literature in the Soviet Union by 1941? ... that during the first tour to the Soviet Union by any American ballet company, Lupe Serrano danced the first encore in the American Ballet Theatre's history? ... that the Soviet Union boycotted the United Nations in 1950? 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