The political system of the Soviet Union took place in a federal single-party soviet socialist republic framework which was characterized by the superior...

Throughout the history of the Soviet Union, tens of millions of people suffered political repression, which was an instrument of the state since the October...

Declaration № 142-Н of the Soviet of the Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union. It also brought an end to the Soviet Union's federal government...

The Constitution of the Soviet Union recognised the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (between 1938 and 1989) and the earlier Central Executive Committee...

its 69-year history, the Soviet Union usually had a de facto leader who would not always necessarily be head of state or even head of government but would...

of Soviet Russia – adopted 10 July 1918 1924 Constitution of the Soviet Union – adopted 31 January 1924 ("Lenin Constitution") 1936 Constitution of the...

There was systematic political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union, based on the interpretation of political opposition or dissent as a psychiatric...

The term "Soviet empire" collectively refers[by whom?] to the world's territories that the Soviet Union dominated politically, economically, and militarily...

The Supreme Soviet of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (SSUSSR) was the highest body of state authority of the Soviet Union (USSR) from 1936 to...

The Soviet of the Union (Russian: Сове́т Сою́за, Sovet Soyuza) was the lower chamber of the Supreme Soviet of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics...

The Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was the executive and administrative organ of the highest body of state authority, the...

The following is a list of political parties in the Soviet Union: Communist Party of the Soviet Union (established in January 1912, dissolved in August...

The All-Union Congress of Soviets (Russian: Всесоюзный съезд Советов) was formally the supreme governing body of the Soviet Union from its formation (30...

The Republics of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or the Union Republics (Russian: Сою́зные Респу́блики, romanized: Soyúznye Respúbliki) were national-based...

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

in the Soviet Union served as an important part of national politics, practices, and identity. From the time of Lenin until the dissolution of the USSR...

of state authority in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). The presidium was elected by joint session of both houses of the Supreme Soviet...

widespread political repression, which solidified the Soviet Union's status as a major world power but at a tremendous human cost. Throughout the 20th century...

state ideology of the Soviet Union—and thus Marxism–Leninism—derived and developed from the theories, policies, and political praxis of Marx, Engels, Lenin...

The general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was the leader of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU)...

was a political party in the Soviet Union which preceded the modern-day Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR), the Liberal Democratic Party of Belarus...

The ten years 1917–1927 saw a radical transformation of the Russian Empire into a socialist state, the Soviet Union. Soviet Russia covers 1917–1922 and...

as the Soviet Communist Party (SCP), was the founding and ruling political party of the Soviet Union. The CPSU was the sole governing party of the Soviet...

national communities and or ethnic groups. The Soviet Union claimed to be supportive of self-determination and rights of many minorities and colonized peoples...

stabilizing along the Iron Curtain, the CIA attempted to limit the spread of Soviet influence elsewhere around the world. Much of the basic model came...

collapse and political disintegration. Established in 1922 following the Russian Civil War, the Soviet Union quickly became a one-party state under the Communist...

Religion in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was dominated by the fact that it became the first state to have as one objective of its official...

the Soviet Union were severely limited. The Soviet Union was a totalitarian state from 1927 until 1953 and a one-party state until 1990. Freedom of speech...

1941–1946: Strategy, Diplomacy, the Origins of the Cold War (1973) Jacobson, Jon. When the Soviet Union Entered World Politics (1994), on 1920s online Jelavich...

The Council of Ministers of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Russian: Совет министров СССР, romanized: Sovet Ministrov SSSR, IPA: [sɐˈvʲet mʲɪˈnʲistrəf...