The Great Turn or Great Break (Russian: Великий перелом) was the radical change in the economic policy of the USSR from 1928 to 1929, primarily consisting...

Great Break may refer to: Great Break (USSR), Stalin's campaign of Soviet collectivization and industrialization Grande Coupure, the transition between...

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was formally dissolved as a sovereign state and subject of international law on 26 December 1991 by Declaration...

Trotskyites" Case of Trotskyist Anti-Soviet Military Organization Great Break (USSR) Gulag Joint State Political Directorate Mass graves in the Soviet...

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922...

"Back in the U.S.S.R." is a song by the English rock band the Beatles and the first track of the 1968 double album The Beatles (also known as the "White...

new stage of struggle of the U.S.S.R. May this trial be the last severe lesson, and may the great might of the U.S.S.R. become clear to all. Romain Rolland...

collectivization for all animals except pigs. The numbers of cows in the USSR fell from 33.2 million in 1928 to 27.8 million in 1941 and to 24.6 million...

great transformation of nature" (великое преобразование природы, velikoye preobrazovaniye prirody). The plan was outlined in the Decree of the USSR Council...

emergence of the Great Break (USSR) in 1929. During this period, eugenics was referred to as a “bourgeois doctrine,” and as such the USSR would become the...

University Press. ISBN 0-19-532487-0 "Illegal Emigration to the U.S.S.R. During the Great Depression". www.genealogia.fi. Archived from the original on...

bordering the USSR (and thus facilitating future national unification, which would then bring about territorial expansion of the USSR) were now instead...

The history of the Soviet Union (USSR) (1922–91) began with the ideals of the Bolshevik Revolution and ended in dissolution amidst economic collapse and...

the party, and by the end of the 1920s, he became the sole dictator of the USSR, defeating all his political opponents. The post of general secretary of...

the Great Famine of 1931–1933, colloquially called the Holodomor, the cause of which was, among other factors, the collectivization policy in the USSR, which...

for a point, when his upper leg described a great circle." The engraving shows a young man apparently breaking. The dance was called the Giesse Harad Polska...

State Political Directorate, or GPU, of the NKVD of the RSFSR. In 1922 the USSR formed, with the RSFSR as its largest member. The GPU became the OGPU (Joint...

According to data from the 1989 Soviet census, the population of the USSR was made up of 70% East Slavs and 17% Turkic peoples, with no other single ethnic...

Ukraine, which inherited part of the old Soviet fleet after the break-up of the USSR. It was commissioned into the People's Liberation Army Navy in 2012...

Letters" critical of Khrushchev and his leadership of the USSR. Moreover, the break with the USSR allowed Mao to reorient the development of the PRC with...

during famine. World War II, known as "the Great Patriotic War" by Soviet historians, devastated much of the USSR, with about one out of every three World...

picture. With The Great Dictator's twist of mistaken identity, the similarity between the barber and the Tramp allowed Chaplin break [sic] with his old...

during the 19th Party Congress in October 1952 and absolute leader of the USSR from January 21, 1924 until his death on March 5, 1953. Stalin began his...

up most of the USSR squad, was forced to withdraw from the league and later disbanded. Furthermore, Boris Arkadiev, who coached both USSR and CSKA, was...

art historians. Among them were such major artists and sculptors of the USSR as Alexander Samokhvalov, Yevsey Moiseyenko, Andrei Mylnikov, Yuri Neprintsev...

backdrop of economic stagnation and regression within the economy of the USSR. This period marked the breakdown of the Gosplan, the state planning agency...

seat was transferred to the Russian Federation, the successor state of the USSR. The Soviet Union took an active role in the United Nations and other major...

Социалистических Республик) officially created the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union. It de jure legalised a political union...

productivity led to rapid economic growth across the USSR during the 1950s. As a result of this success, the USSR established stable financial systems. These successes...

expression "The Great Patriotic War", the Soviet name for World War II—but this term represents by and large, the contest between the U.S.S.R. and Nazi Germany...