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Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic was developed based on the previous success of other similar games in the genre, including Cities: Skylines and Transport Fever.Unlike previous games, the focus of Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic was to simulate the economic systems of Communist states, particularly the Eastern Bloc economies during the Cold War era, with the game being set between the ...
The 1930s were marked by a series of foreign workers’ strikes in the Soviet Union. Workers protested poor living conditions and withholding of wages. [4] [1] After the economic crisis of 1933, the Soviet government discontinued payment to foreigners in hard currency, and the population of foreign workers declined to less than 20,000.
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [r] (USSR), [s] commonly known as the Soviet Union, [t] was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. During its existence, it was the largest country by area , extending across eleven time zones and sharing borders with twelve countries , and the third-most populous country .
Soviet assembly in Petrograd, 1917. A soviet (Russian: совет, romanized: sovet, IPA: ⓘ, lit. ' council ') is a workers' council that follows a socialist ideology, particularly in the context of the Russian Revolution. Soviets were the main form of government in the Russian SFSR and the Makhnovshchina.
The Soviet-era republic's centralized economy forbade private ownership of property with an income. Privately owned farms in Armenia were collectivized and put under the control of the state starting in the late 1920s, however this was frequently met with vigorous opposition by the peasantry.
A drop of 13.8 million workers in total working population from 1940 to 1941 is due to the loss of European populated areas such as Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic and Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic and due to large casualties on the front line which needed to be replenished. The working population picks back up again by almost 10 ...
In the Soviet Union, a Union Republic (Russian: Сою́зная Респу́блика, romanized: Soyúznaya Respúblika) or unofficially a Republic of the USSR was a constituent federated political entity with a system of government called a Soviet republic, which was officially defined in the 1977 constitution as "a sovereign Soviet ...
A Soviet postage stamp from 1959. The stamp celebrates growth in the chemical industry. During the Khrushchev era, especially from 1956 through 1962, the Soviet Union attempted to implement major wage reforms intended to move Soviet industrial workers away from the mindset of overfulfilling quotas that had characterised the Soviet economy during the preceding Stalinist period and toward a more ...