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| | Soviet Union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The KGB (Committee for State Security), served in a fashion as the Soviet counterpart to both the FBI and the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) in the U.S. It ran a massive network of informants throughout the Soviet Union, which was used to monitor violations in law. | | | Although there were many ethnic Jews in the Soviet Union, actual practice of Judaism was rare in Communist times. | | | Meanwhile, countless Soviets were jailed and sent to the Gulag (Chief Administration for Corrective Labor Camps), a vast network of forced-labor camps, or executed. |
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| | Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 |
| | Hundreds of thousands of Soviet Jews left the country after emigration restraints were removed. | | | The new leaders stressed collective leadership (as opposed to Khrushchev& one-man rule), but because of his position at the head of the CPSU Brezhnev held an advantage and by 1970 was clearly the most powerful person in the country, followed at a considerable distance by Kosygin. | | | This led to inefficiency and confusion, and in 1921 there was a partial return to the market economy with the adoption of the New Economic Policy (NEP). |
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| | ICL - Soviet Union (Former~) - Constitution |
| | (3) A session of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR shall consist of separate and joint sittings of the chambers, and of meetings of the standing commissions of the chambers or commissions of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR held between the sittings of the chambers. | | | The supreme goal of the Soviet state is the building of a classless communist society in which there will be public, communist self-government. | | | (3) All state and public bodies, organizations and officials are obliged to meet the requests of the commissions of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR and of its chambers, and submit the requisite materials and documents to them. |
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http://www.oefre.unibe.ch/law/icl/r100000_.html
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| | At Cold War's End: US Intelligence on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, 1989-1991 |
| | Many consider the Soviet Union's sudden about-face on German unification in mid-1990 a surprise, a miracle, or a mystery that still eludes a convincing explanation. | | | To oversimplify, I believed that Gorbachev's goal was to restore dynamism to a socialist political and economic system and revitalize the Soviet Union domestically and internationally to compete with the West. | | | In one case, a CIA study on the petroleum industry may have led the Soviet leadership to change an economic policy headed for disaster. |
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http://www.cia.gov/csi/books/19335/art-1.html
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| | 10/29/02 - My Time with Soviet Economics |
| | Western scholars (and intelligence agencies) consequently were unprepared for the sudden collapse of the Soviet Union. | | | My conclusion was buttressed by the absence of a theory of central planning. | | | Communiqué on the Plenary Session of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. |
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http://www.vdare.com/roberts/soviet_economy.htm
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| | The Collapse of the Soviet Union |
| | Archive of the August 1991 Soviet Coup (FUNET) | | | Soviet Union -- Politics and Government -- 1985-1991 | | | The Causes and Consequences of the Collapse of the Soviet Union |
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http://newarkwww.rutgers.edu/guides/glo-sov.html
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| | Ronald Reagan and the Soviet Union Homepage |
| | Feel free to submit comments or questions, or express your views on the Ronald Reagan Presidency. | | | This homepage examines the last few years of the Cold War, with a particular focus on Ronald Reagan's policy towards the Soviet Union. |
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http://www.reagan.dk
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| | Country Browser: Soviet Union |
| | Visit the links in the left hand area of this page to access the different reports. | | | This area contains a list of interesting reports based around the 6253 titles in the IMDb from the Soviet Union (including international co-productions). | | | The form below allows you to search the database for titles from the Soviet Union only. |
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http://us.imdb.com/Sections/Countries/SovietUnion
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| | BBC NEWS World Europe Country profiles Timeline: Soviet Union |
| | Dictator instigated purges, sent millions to labour camps | | | 1968 - Soviet and Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia to stem a trend towards liberalisation; "Brezhnev doctrine" enunciated, giving communist countries the right to intervene in other communist states whose policies threatened the international communist movement. | | | 1990 - Soviet troops sent to Azerbaijan following inter-ethnic killings between Armenians and Azeris; Communist Party votes to end one-party rule; Gorbachev opposes independence of Baltic states and imposes sanctions on Lithuania; Yeltsin elected president of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic by the latter's parliament and leaves the Soviet Communist Party. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/1112551.stm
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| | CIA's Analysis of the Soviet Union, 1947-1991 |
| | SW 91-10069 Technical Intelligence Report, October 1991, The Flat Twin ABM Radar: Not as Capable as Previously Believed | | | Origins of CIA's Analysis of the Soviet Union | | | CIA Intelligence Report, March 1953, Intelligence on the Soviet Bloc |
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| | Soviet Union - dKosopedia |
| | The Soviet Union was a country whose official name was the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or U.S.S.R. It was created after World War I out of the remnants of the Russian Empire, and it was the first country in the world to be based on the economic principles of Karl Marx. | | | That led to a fifty year standoff against the United States and its NATO allies during the Cold War. | | | After the war, the victorious Soviet Army occupied many countries of Eastern Europe (see the Warsaw Pact) and installed repressive pro-Soviet governments. |
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http://www.dkosopedia.com/index.php/Soviet_Union
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| | World War II in the USSR |
| | On April 30, as the Soviets were battling through the streets of his city, Adolph Hitler killed himself. | | | This was a significant turning point in the war against Germany. | | | Books on the USSR and Soviet history from Amazon |
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http://www.worldwariihistory.info/in/USSR.html
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| | Soviet Union |
| | This finial was used in the Soviet Union. | | | The Red field is symbolism of the blood that has been spilt by workers the world over in the fight for their emancipation, and was directly inherited from the red banner flown at the Paris Commune; the original and hitherto “base” symbol of a worker’s government flag. | | | The state emblem of the Soviet Union (corresponding to a coat of arms) had the Earth superimposed by the hammer and sicle. |
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| | History of the Soviet Union |
| | It is funded by a HEFCE Teaching Fellowship awarded to Professor Acton and is being carried out by Dr King, who took his doctorate at UEA and is a specialist in Soviet history. | | | What the site does is to integrate the Internet material directly into our key Russian history units: the year-long 'Russian Revolution Special Subject' (Level III) and, in Semester II, 'The History of the Soviet Union, 1917-1991' (Level II) and 'Gorbachev and the Break-Up of the USSR' (MA). | | | The structure of the site is very simple - this is a deliberate policy to try to make it as easy as possible to use. |
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http://www.uea.ac.uk/his/webcours/russia/welcome
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| | The Soviet posters have moved |
| | The Soviet Posters of the exhibition The Chairman Smiles have moved to |
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