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In the 1950s, Soviet dissidents started leaking criticism to the West by sending documents and statements to foreign diplomatic missions in Moscow. [13] In the 1960s, Soviet dissidents frequently declared that the rights the government of the Soviet Union denied them were universal rights, possessed by everyone regardless of race, religion and nationality. [14]
This is a list of the violent political and ethnic conflicts in the countries of the former Soviet Union following its dissolution in 1991. Some of these conflicts such as the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis or the 2013–2014 Euromaidan protests in Ukraine were due to political crises in the successor states. Others involved separatist ...
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Pages in category "Soviet dissidents" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of ...
Communist Party of the Soviet Union (established in January 1912, dissolved in August 1991) Left Opposition (1923–1933) Workers' Truth (1921–1923) Workers' Group (1923–1930) Right Opposition (1924–1933) United Opposition (1926–1927) Left-Right Bloc (1930) Union of Marxist-Leninists (1932) Bloc of Soviet Oppositions (1932–1933) Anti ...
English: Republics of the Soviet Union, numbered alphabetically by the English names of the post-soviet states: 1 Armenia, 2 Azerbaijan, 3 Belarus, 4 Estonia, 5 Georgia, 6 Kazakhstan, 7 Kyrgyzstan, 8 Latvia, 9 Lithuania, 10 Moldova, 11 Russia, 12 Tajikistan, 13 Turkmenistan, 14 Ukraine, 15 Uzbekistan
During and after World War II, similar restrictions were put in place in non-Soviet countries of the Eastern Bloc, [2] which consisted of the communist states of Central and Eastern Europe (except for non-aligned Yugoslavia). [3] [4] Until 1952, however, the Inner German border between East and West Germany could be easily crossed in most ...
The Soviet currency Soviet ruble banknotes all included writings in national languages of all the 15 union republics. All of the former Republics of the Union are now independent countries, with ten of them (all except the Baltic states, Georgia and Ukraine) being very loosely organized under the heading of the Commonwealth of Independent States.
Throughout the history of the Soviet Union, tens of millions of people suffered political repression, which was an instrument of the state since the October Revolution.It culminated during the Stalin era, then declined, but it continued to exist during the "Khrushchev Thaw", followed by increased persecution of Soviet dissidents during the Brezhnev era, and it did not cease to exist until late ...