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    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...
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    The social phenomenon of nostalgia for the era of the Soviet Union can include its politics, its society, its culture and cultural artifacts, its superpower...
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    The Republics of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or the Union Republics (Russian: Сою́зные Респу́блики, romanized: Soyúznye Respúbliki) were national-based...
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  • predicting but causing the dissolution of the Soviet state. Whether any particular prediction was correct is still a matter of debate, since they give...
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    contributed to the dissolution of the Soviet Union, formally ending the Cold War. It is also commonly referred to as "the Soviet Union's Vietnam". In March...
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    The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922...
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    the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. Prior to their independence, they existed as Union Republics, which were the top-level constituents of the...
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    on the future of the Soviet Union was held on 17 March 1991 across the Soviet Union. It was the only national referendum in the history of the Soviet Union...
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    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...
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    Dissolution of the Soviet Union Pro-independence movements in the Russian Civil War Edmund A. Walsh. "The Fall of the Russian Empire: The End of the Monarchy"...
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  • 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...
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    decade after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the same melody was used for the Soviet Union's successor state, as the State Anthem of the Russian Federation...
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    recognized as such in international circles, even after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. The plain red flag, which was a traditional revolutionary...
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    The Constitution of the Soviet Union recognised the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (between 1938 and 1989) and the earlier Central Executive Committee...
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    to meet the demands of the new country. It operated until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991. The Soviet Railways were the largest unified...
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    were: 1924 Constitution of the Soviet Union – adopted 31 January 1924 ("Lenin Constitution") 1936 Constitution of the Soviet Union – adopted 5 December 1936...
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    Treaty on the Creation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) to salvage and reform the USSR. A ceremony of the Russian SFSR signing the treaty...
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    conducted after the dissolution of the Soviet Union revealed that the originally reported mortality rates vary substantially underestimated the actual rates...
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    at about 40% after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. The Soviet Union's Nevsky Engineering Design Bureau developed the third-generation heavy...
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    ranks ceased to be used after the 1991 dissolution of the Soviet Union, although the military ranks and insignia of the modern Russian Federation and...
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    The Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), at some points known as the Russian Communist Party, All-Union Communist Party and Bolshevik Party, and...
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    The Soviet of the Union (‹See Tfd›Russian: Сове́т Сою́за, Sovet Soyuza) was the lower chamber of the Supreme Soviet of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics...
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  • and the Soviet Union were formally established in 1974, and were terminated in 1991 with the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The Communist Party of Palestine...
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  • reorganisation of the AMO Factory in Moscow in the late 1920s–early 1930s, during the first five-year plan, and continued until the Soviet Union's dissolution in...
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    the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, its name was briefly Prime Minister and later Chairman of the Committee on the Operational Management of...
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    a leftover of the bourgeois era. The collapse of the ministry system was one of the main causes behind the dissolution of the Soviet Union. State Committees...
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    currencies which replaced the Soviet rouble in the former Soviet Union, and an increase in public debt with the depreciation of the Russian rouble. These...
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  • between the communist bloc, led by the Soviet Union, and the capitalist West, led by the United States. The eventual dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991...
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    and the Communist Bloc and was a leading country of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM). Relations ended in 1991 with the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Country...
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    dissolved upon the dissolution of the Soviet Union on 26 December 1991, though its branches in the various Soviet republics have survived as the interior ministries...
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