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(Encyclopedia) Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), Rus. Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, former republic. It was established in 1922 and dissolved in 1991. The Soviet Union was the first state...
(Encyclopedia) Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich
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(Encyclopedia) See L. Schapiro, The Communist Party of the Soviet Union (2d ed. 1971); S. F. Cohen, Rethinking the Soviet Experience (1985); M. Geller, Utopia in Power (1986); S. Carter, Russian Nationalism (1990); ...
(Encyclopedia) socialist realism, Soviet artistic and literary doctrine. The role of literature and art in Soviet society was redefined in 1932 when the newly created Union of Soviet Writers proclaimed socialist rea...
(Encyclopedia) August Coup, attempted coup (Aug. 18–22, 1991) against Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. On the eve of the signing ceremony for a new union treaty for the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, memb...
(Encyclopedia) Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic or Moldavia: see Moldova.
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(Encyclopedia) Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic or Kirghizia: see Kyrgyzstan.
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(Encyclopedia) Tadzhik Soviet Socialist Republic or Tadzhikistan: see Tajikistan.
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(Encyclopedia) Mari Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic: see Mari El.
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(Encyclopedia) Mordvinian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic: see Mordovia, Russia.
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