Portal:Soviet Union
The Soviet Union Portal
A gateway to everything about the former socialist and largest country in the world.
.svg)
The Soviet Union (Russian: Советский Союз, tr. Sovetsky Soyuz), officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR; Russian: Сою́з Сове́тских Социалисти́ческих Респу́блик, tr. Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik; IPA: [sɐˈjus sɐˈvʲetskʲɪx sətsɨəlʲɪˈstʲitɕɪskʲɪx rʲɪsˈpublʲɪk] (
listen); abbreviated СССР, SSSR), was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991. Russia is the legal successor of the USSR.
The Soviet Union was a single-party state ruled by the Communist Party from its foundation until 1990. Even though the USSR was technically a union of 15 subnational Soviet republics, its government and economy were highly centralized.
The Russian Revolution of 1917 caused the downfall of the Russian Empire. Following the Russian Revolution, there was a struggle for power between the Bolshevik party, led by Vladimir Lenin, and the anti-communist White movement. In December 1922, the Bolsheviks won the civil war, and the Soviet Union was formed with the merger of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, the Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic and the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic. Following the death of Vladimir Lenin in 1924, Joseph Stalin took power, leading the USSR through a large-scale industrialization program. Stalin established a planned economy and suppressed political opposition to him and the Communist party.
"Tear down this wall!" was the challenge from United States President Ronald Reagan to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to destroy the Berlin Wall.
In a speech at the Brandenburg Gate near the Berlin Wall on June 12, 1987, commemorating the 750th anniversary of Berlin, Reagan challenged Gorbachev (who was then the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union), to tear it down as a symbol of Gorbachev's desire for increasing freedom in the Eastern Bloc. (More...) Template:/box-footer
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Box-header/colours' not found.
Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (April 15 [O.S. April 3] 1894 – September 11, 1971) led the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War. He served as First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, and as Chairman of the Council of Ministers, or Premier, from 1958 to 1964. Khrushchev was responsible for the partial de-Stalinization of the Soviet Union, for backing the progress of the early Soviet space program, and for several relatively liberal reforms in areas of domestic policy. Khrushchev's party colleagues removed him from power in 1964, replacing him with Leonid Brezhnev as First Secretary and Alexei Kosygin as Premier.
Khrushchev was born in the Russian village of Kalinovka in 1894, close to the present-day border between Russia and Ukraine. He was employed as a metalworker in his youth, and during the Russian Civil War was a political commissar. With the help of Lazar Kaganovich, he worked his way up the Soviet hierarchy. He supported Joseph Stalin's purges, and approved thousands of arrests. In 1939, Stalin sent him to govern the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, and he continued the purges there. During what was known in the Soviet Union as the Great Patriotic War (Eastern Front of World War II), Khrushchev was again a commissar, serving as an intermediary between Stalin and his generals. Khrushchev was present at the bloody defense of Stalingrad, and he took great pride of this fact throughout his life. After the war, he returned to Ukraine before being recalled to Moscow as one of Stalin's close advisers.
(More…)
- ... that the proposals for a new Crimean flag after the collapse of the Soviet Union included a white flag with seven rainbow colors at the top and a blue-white-red tricolor design , which was officially adopted in 1999?
- ... that tickets bought for the ceremonial opening of Kiev Republican Stadium scheduled for June 22, 1941 were still valid 7 years later, as the event was "postponed until after the Victory" due to the Nazi invasion to the USSR?
- ... that the strength of the Ukrainian People's Army fell from 300,000 to just 15,000 after five months of war with Soviet Russia?
- ... that the Poltava Bandurist Capella, directed by Hnat Khotkevych, was the first Soviet ensemble to be invited to tour North America?
- International Labor Day - 1 and 2 May - celebrated with elaborate popular parade in the centre of the major cities
- Radio Day - May 7 - is a commemoration of the development of radio in Russia.
- Victory Day - 9 May - end of Great Patriotic War, marked by capitulation of Nazi Germany, 1945
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Box-header/colours' not found.
 |
Vladimir Lenin was the first leader of the Soviet Union.
What are WikiProjects?
Template:/box-header2 
Привет and welcome! Wikipedia is the encyclopedia that anyone can edit. If you are interested in the Soviet Union and have some information that can be added to an existing article, please help. Here are some things you can do:
- Cleanup:
- Deletion sorting:
- Notability: articles with notability concerns, listed at WikiProject Notability
- Rate: the Unassessed Soviet Union articles in the Soviet Union WikiProject
- Requested articles: Honoured worker, Soviet occupation of Mongolia, Portal:Military of the Soviet Union
- Requested images:
- Stubs: people stubs, more…
- Add
{{Portal|Soviet Union}}to the See also section of Soviet-related articles - Tag the talk pages of Soviet-related articles with the {{WikiProject Soviet Union}} banner
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Box-header/colours' not found.
Template:/box-header2 {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Soviet Union/Recognized content}} Template:/box-footer
- What are portals?
- List of portals
- Featured portals
 |
General: |
 |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| Portals: |
|
||
| Tools: | |||
| Task forces (general): |
|
||
| Task forces (regional): |
|||
| Related projects: | |||
| Project-specific guidelines: | |||
