USSR
The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), was a federal socialist state in Northern Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991. Nominally a union of multiple national Soviet republics, it was a one-party state prior to 1990 governed by the Communist Party, with Moscow as its capital in its largest republic, the Russian SFSR. Other major urban centers were Leningrad (Russian SFSR), Kiev (Ukrainian SSR), Minsk (Byelorussian SSR), Tashkent (Uzbek SSR), Alma-Ata (Kazakh SSR) and Novosibirsk (Russian SFSR). It was the largest country in the world by surface area, spanning over 10,000 kilometers (6,200 mi) east …
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MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 October 2024 English
Critic, translator, essayist, and gay man, Édouard Roditi (1910–1992) was a singular witness to the twentieth century. His writings over six decades are a unique account of a life lived …
Nutshell (1982). As the Cold War set in, both the ussr and the United States invested heavily in translation …
Wilson Center Canada · 18 September 2024 English
The conditions the possibility that the KGB arranged the pogroms of the deportation were deplorable: people were to show the Uzbek authorities that the locals could moved by trucks and …
Volga Germans, or the Crimean Tatars, forcing them (USSR). Unlike many other ethnic minorities in to remain … promoting their cultures and languages Committee of the USSR in 1968 to lobby the issue within those territories … Wilson Center, April 23, 2024. 2 Yuri Slezkine, “The USSR as a Communal Apartment, or How a Socialist State …
AUP: Athabasca University Press · 27 August 2024 English
In this essay, based on her writer-in-residence lecture at Athabasca University, Myrna Kostash offers a self-critical reflection on her body of work and considers how her visits to Ukraine and …
Canada. This was Ukraine, a constituent part of the USSR, a workers’ state, or prison, depending on your … place in a profoundly altered context. The entire USSR was in the throes of perestroika [rebuilding] and …
Wilson Center Canada · 19 July 2024 English
The and economic performance, the Kremlin facilitated combination of post-Soviet reforms and economic a joint decree to advance the integration of Russian decline robbed the health system of resources health …
security communities had after the collapse of the USSR. These included become convinced that Cold War nuclear … Quarantine Infections of the Ministry of Health of the USSR (1988–1990). 11 Постановление Правительства Российской …
CDA: Conference of Defence Associations Institute · 8 March 2024 English
The Second World War gave birth to the Atlantic Charter, the UN Charter, the Paris Peace Treaties, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Fourth Geneva Convention, and the Genocide …
negotiations underpinning the dissolution of the USSR and the recognition of an independent Ukraine, as … perfectly: the Russian elite after the end of the USSR believed that Ukrainian independence would be temporary … a “Europe, common home'' would be one where the USSR would retain its status as a superpower, while Yeltsin … the "betrayals" of certain former members of the USSR, 54 Strategic Outlook — 2024 Russia found itself …
CDA: Conference of Defence Associations Institute · 7 March 2024 English
The Second World War gave birth to the Atlantic Charter, the UN Charter, the Paris Peace Treaties, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Fourth Geneva Convention, and the Genocide …
negotiations underpinning the dissolution of the USSR and the recognition of an independent Ukraine, as … perfectly: the Russian elite after the end of the USSR believed that Ukrainian independence would be temporary … a “Europe, common home'' would be one where the USSR would retain its status as a superpower, while Yeltsin … the "betrayals" of certain former members of the USSR, 54 Strategic Outlook — 2024 Russia found itself …
Wilson Center Canada · 15 February 2024 English
The quality of life of older The northeastern territories will remain the area of Ukrainians will depend on general factors like the most “insecure habitation” due to its proximity the …
the health care system. Lack of access to medical USSR. For economic reasons, Ukrainians have and recreational …
Canadian Council for International Cooperation · 29 January 2024
impacted by the war in Ukraine.13 This would be similar to the separate designation for support to former USSR states in the 1990s. …
to the separate designation for support to former USSR states in the 1990s. 12 OECD. (2022). ODA 2022 Summary …
Wilson Center Canada · 17 January 2024 English
‘On the Decision to Introduce Martial Law in Poland in 1981’ Two Historians Report to the Commission on Constitutional Oversight of the SEJM of the Republic of Poland Andrzej Paczkowski …
Draw a Balance Sheet’ Ottawa Views the 1974 Canada-USSR Hockey Series John Soares 69. The (Inter-Communist) …
CIDP: Centre for International and Defense Policy · 9 January 2024 English
One of the many impacts of our multi-year Afghanistan contribution was to sensitize both politicians and senior bureaucrats to the risks associated with unknown outcomes.11 A combination of events, all …
between the [Union of Soviet Socialist Republics] USSR and the West. They included acts of sabotage against … Special Forces USSOCOM U.S. Special Operations Command USSR Union of Soviet Socialist Republics UW Unconventional … Republics World War II (WWII) (see also Second (USSR) 99, 111 World War) 80, 95, 97, 99, 106, 193, 218 …
