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Joseph Stalin
76 linksJoseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili; 18 December 1878 – 5 March 1953) was a Georgian revolutionary and Soviet political leader who led the Soviet Union from 1922 until his death in 1953.
Cold War
60 linksThe Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, which began following World War II.
World War II
51 linksGlobal war that lasted from 1939 to 1945.
Global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945.
Under the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact of August 1939, Germany and the Soviet Union had partitioned Poland and marked out their "spheres of influence" across Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Romania.
Dissolution of the Soviet Union
48 linksThe dissolution of the Soviet Union (1988–1991) was the process of internal disintegration within the Soviet Union (USSR) which resulted in the end of the country's and its federal government's existence as a sovereign state, thereby resulting in its constituent republics gaining full sovereignty.
Eastern Bloc
46 linksThe Eastern Bloc, also known as the Communist Bloc, the Socialist Bloc and the Soviet Bloc, was the group of socialist states of Central and Eastern Europe, East Asia, Southeast Asia, Africa and Latin America under the influence of the Soviet Union that existed during the Cold War (1945–1991).
Russia
48 linksTranscontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia.
Transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia.
Following a civil war, the Russian SFSR established the Soviet Union with three other republics, as its largest and the principal constituent.
Mikhail Gorbachev
45 linksRussian and former Soviet politician.
Russian and former Soviet politician.
The eighth and final leader of the Soviet Union, he was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991.
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
50 linksThe Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russian SFSR or RSFSR, previously known as the Russian Soviet Republic and the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic as well as being unofficially known as Soviet Russia, the Russian Federation or simply Russia, was an independent federal socialist state from 1917 to 1922, and afterwards the largest and most populous of the Soviet socialist republics of the Soviet Union (USSR) from 1922 to 1991, until becoming a sovereign part of the Soviet Union with priority of Russian laws over Union-level legislation in 1990 and 1991, the last two years of the existence of the USSR.
Vladimir Lenin
38 linksRussian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist.
Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist.
He served as the first and founding head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1924 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924.
Communist Party of the Soviet Union
52 linksThe Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), also known by various other names during its history, was the founding and ruling party of the Soviet Union.