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Hace 4 días · 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.
- Lenin and the Bolsheviks
By general consent the decisive event in the history of the...
- Industrialization, 1929–34
Soviet Union - Industrialization, 1929–34: On the industrial...
- The Brezhnev Era
The Soviets also removed some of their restrictions on...
- Brest-Litovsk
Soviet Union - Brest-Litovsk, Treaty, WWI: One of Lenin’s...
- Economic Policy
Relations between Gorbachev and Reagan’s successor, George...
- Lenin’s Disillusionment
Soviet Union - Lenin's Disillusionment: Lenin’s health began...
- Cape Dezhnyov
Cape Dezhnyov, cape, extreme eastern Russia. Cape Dezhnyov...
- Cape Chelyuskin
Cape Chelyuskin, cape in north-central Siberia, the...
- Lenin and the Bolsheviks
- The Russian Revolution and The Birth of The Soviet Union
- Joseph Stalin
- The Great Purge
- The Cold War
- Khrushchev and De-Stalinization
- Sputnik and The Soviet Space Program
- Mikhail Gorbachev
- Collapse of The Soviet Union
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The Soviet Union had its origins in the Russian Revolution of 1917. Radical leftist revolutionaries overthrew Russia’s Czar Nicholas II, ending centuries of Romanov rule. The Bolsheviks established a socialist state in the territory that was once the Russian Empire. A long and bloody civil war followed. The Red Army, backed by the Bolshevik governm...
Georgian-born revolutionary Joseph Stalinrose to power upon Lenin’s death in 1924. The dictator ruled by terror with a series of brutal policies, which left millions of his own citizens dead. During his reign—which lasted until his death in 1953—Stalin transformed the Soviet Union from an agrarian society to an industrial and military superpower. S...
Amid confusion and resistance to collectivization in the countryside, agricultural productivity dropped. This led to devastating food shortages. Millions died during the Great Famine of 1932-1933. For many years the USSR denied the Great Famine, keeping secret the results of a 1937 census that would have revealed the extent of loss. The Ukrainian f...
Following the surrender of Nazi Germany at the end of World War II, the uncomfortable wartime alliance between the Soviet Union and the United States and Great Britain began to crumble. The Soviet Union by 1948 had installed communist-leaning governments in Eastern European countries that the USSR had liberated from Nazi control during the war. The...
After Stalin’s death in 1953, Nikita Khrushchevrose to power. He became Communist Party secretary in 1953 and premier in 1958. Khrushchev’s tenure spanned the tensest years of the Cold War. He instigated the Cuban Missile Crisisin 1962 by installing nuclear weapons just 90 miles from Florida’s coast in Cuba. At home, however, Khrushchev initiated a...
The Soviets initiated rocketry and space exploration programs in the 1930s as part of Stalin’s agenda for building an advanced, industrial economy. Many early projects were tied to the Soviet military and kept secret, but by the 1950s, space would become another dramatic arena for competition between dueling world superpowers. On October 4, 1957, t...
A longtime Communist Party politician, Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in 1985. He inherited a stagnant economy and a crumbling political system. He introduced two sets of policies he hoped would reform the political system and help the USSR become a more prosperous, productive nation. These policies were called glasnost and perestroika. Gorbachev’...
During the 1960s and 1970s, the Communist Party elite rapidly gained wealth and power while millions of average Soviet citizens faced starvation. The Soviet Union’s push to industrialize at any cost resulted in frequent shortages of food and consumer goods. Bread lines were common throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Soviet citizens often did not have a...
Guns or butter problems of the Cold War. CIA Library. Revelations from the Russian Archives. Library of Congress. Sputnik, 1957. U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian.
The Soviets (the term itself is Russian for ‘council’) were groups of critical importance in 1917. The Soviets were committees of representatives, elected by workers, soldiers and sailors – so by the nature of their membership they were militant, protective of working-class interests and hostile to both tsarist and bourgeois governments.
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.
31 de oct. de 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...
21 de dic. de 2022 · The story of the creation of the Soviet Union was therefore one that began with the overthrowing of the Tsar and the promise to free Russia’s exploited masses and ended with the birth of a powerful, bureaucratic, and undemocratic state that killed off the hopes of the Russian Revolutions.
