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- Calling code
- +7
- Currency
- Soviet ruble (руб) (SUR)
- Demonym
- Soviet
- Ethnic groups (1989)
- 70% East Slavs · 17% Turkic · 13% other
- GDP (nominal)
- 1990 estimate
- GDP .mw-parser-output .nobold{font-weight:normal}(PPP)
- 1989 estimate
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Overview
- Eurasia
- Dissolution of the Soviet Union
- Bordered twelve other countries Geography of the Soviet Union
- Multinational state
- Federal union
- National republics Republics of the Soviet Union
- Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
- Constitutionally communist state Communist state
- Communist Party Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- Marxism–Leninism
- Soviet councils Soviet (council)
- Soviet economy
- Centrally planned Economic planning systems of communist states
- Moscow
- October Revolution
- Vladimir Lenin
- Bolshevik Bolsheviks
- Russian Civil War
- Merged into the Soviet Union Treaty on the Creation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
- Lenin's death
- A six-year power struggle Joseph Stalin's rise to power
- Joseph Stalin
- Personalist
- Industrialization Industrialization in the Soviet Union
- Forced collectivization Collectivization in the Soviet Union
- A devastating famine Soviet famine of 1930–1933
- Soviet forced labour camp Forced labor in the Soviet Union
- Gulag
- Executions Great Purge
- Deportations Population transfer in the Soviet Union
Etymology
- Russian Russian language
- Proto-Slavic
- Russian Empire
- State Council State Council (Russian Empire)
- Workers' councils Workers' council
- 1905 Russian Revolution
- February Revolution of 1917
- Russian Provisional Government
- Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic
- Georgian Affair
- 1936 1936 Soviet Constitution
- Ukrainian SSR
- Cyrillic letters
- Great Patriotic War
- Schutzstaffel
History
Geography
- North America
- Kazakhstan
- Ukraine
- European Europe
- Asia
- Pacific Ocean
- Afghanistan Democratic Republic of Afghanistan
- Central Asia
- Time zones Time zone
- Tundra
- Taiga
- Steppes Steppe
- Desert
- Mountains Mountain
- Russia
- Border
- Coastline Coast
- People's Republic of China History of the People's Republic of China (1976–1989)
- Czechoslovakia Czechoslovak Socialist Republic
- Finland
- Hungary Hungarian People's Republic
- Iran Pahlavi Iran
- Mongolia Mongolian People's Republic
- North Korea
- Norway
- Poland Polish People's Republic
- Romania Socialist Republic of Romania
- Turkey
- Bering Strait
- La Pérouse Strait
Government and politics
- Unified state power
- Democratic centralism
- Highest organ of state authority
- All-Union Supreme Soviet Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union
- Council of Ministers Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union
- Central Committee Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- Party Congresses Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- Politburo Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- Secretariat Secretariat of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- General secretary General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet
- Primary party organizations Kraikom
- State bureaucracy Soviet bureaucracy
- Factions were officially banned Ban on factions in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- Congress of Soviets Congress of Soviets of the Soviet Union
- Five-Year Plans Five-year plans for the national economy of the Soviet Union
- Government budget
- Presidium Presidium of the Supreme Soviet
- Central Executive Committee Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union
- Supreme Court Supreme Court of the Soviet Union
- Procurator Procurator General of the Soviet Union
- Council of People's Commissars Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union
- Chairman Premier of the Soviet Union
- Party committees Raikom
- Executive committees Executive committee
- Federation
- Federal constitution Federalism
- Centralised Centralisation
- Unitary Unitary state
- KGB
Military
- Red Army Air Force
- Soviet Navy
- Joint State Political Directorate
- Internal Troops
- NKVD
- Strategic Missile Forces
- Air Defense Forces Soviet Air Defence Forces
- Sergei Gorshkov
- Soviet Air Force
- Strategic bombers Strategic bomber
- Fighters Fighter aircraft
- Intercontinental ballistic missiles Intercontinental ballistic missile
- Invasion of Czechoslovakia
- War in Afghanistan between 1979 and 1989 Soviet–Afghan War
- Conscription
- Nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons Weapon of mass destruction
- Nunn–Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction
- Nuclear weapons Nuclear weapon
- RDS-1
- Trinity Trinity (nuclear test)
- Semipalatinsk Semipalatinsk Test Site
- Novaya Zemlya
- Kapustin Yar
- Strategic nuclear weapons
- Nuclear triad
- Strategic Rocket Forces
- Submarine-launched ballistic missiles Submarine-launched ballistic missile
- Long Range Aviation Soviet Long Range Aviation
- Tu-95MS
- Tu-160 Tupolev Tu-160
Economy
- Command economy
- Material Product System
- War communism
- Free trade
- Barrier troops
- Self-sufficient Autarky
- World economy
- Foreign trade Foreign trade of the Soviet Union
- Arms race
- Third World
- Allocated in aid International relations within the Comecon
- Military budget
- Central planning Economic planning
- Gosplan
- Rubles Soviet ruble
- Credit
- Services Service (economics)
- Education Education in the Soviet Union
- Consumer goods Consumer goods in the Soviet Union
- Reform of 1965 1965 Soviet economic reform
- Stock
- Bob Allen Bob Allen (economic historian)
- GDP per capita
- Christopher Davidson
- William J. Casey
- Stanley Fischer
- William Easterly
- Reduced petroleum export revenues 1980s oil glut
- PPP Purchasing power parity
- First World
Demographics
- World War I
- Famine of 1921–1922 Russian famine of 1921–1922
- Soviet population Population of the Soviet Union
- Catherine Merridale
- Birth rate
- Mortality rate
- Sub-replacement fertility
- Soviet Central Asia
- Soviet government
- Leningrad
- Russian SFSR
- Kiev
- Kharkov
- Baku
- Azerbaijan SSR
- Tashkent
- Uzbek SSR
- Minsk
- Byelorussian SSR
- Equality of men and women Gender equality
- Birth control
- Pronatalist Natalism
- Homosexuality
- Anatoly Lunacharsky
- People's Commissar
- Elimination of illiteracy Likbez
- Social mobility
- New Man New Soviet man
- Vocational training Vocational-technical school
- Affirmative action
Culture
Sport
- Proletarian Sports Society "Dynamo" Dynamo Sports Club
- Central Committee of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
- Soviet Olympic Committee
- IOC
- Olympic Movement
- 1952 Summer Olympics
- Six of its nine appearances at the games Soviet Union at the Olympics
- Soviet Union national ice hockey team
- World championship Ice Hockey World Championships
- Olympic tournament Ice hockey at the Olympic Games
- International Ice Hockey Federation
- 1984 Winter games 1984 Winter Olympics
- GDR
- Fall of the USSR
- Andrew Jennings
- International Olympic Committee
- Doping tests Doping test
- 1984 Summer Olympics
- 1989–1990 Whitbread Round the World Race
- Fazisi
Legacy
- Bureaucratic collectivism
- State capitalism
- State socialism
- Mode of production
- Oligarchy
- Oligarchical class Russian oligarchs
- Gini ratio
- Privatization
- Gross domestic product
- Levada Center
- Armenia
- Kyrgyzstan
- Rating Sociological Group Sociological group "RATING"
- Gorbachev
- Western democracy
- Great Patriotic War Great Patriotic War (term)
- Victory Day Victory Day (9 May)
- Immortal Regiment
- Retains other Soviet holidays Public holidays in Russia
- Defender of the Fatherland Day
- International Women's Day
- International Workers' Day
- Holodomor
- Russian Russian language in Ukraine
- Refugees Refugee
- Post-Soviet conflicts
- Transnistria
- Chinese Communist Party
- Peaceful evolution
- Fifth column
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soviet union russian state ussr war world stalin communist party states government also system economy first russia republics power country
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Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Soviet Union | Calling code | +7 | 1.00 | infobox |
| Soviet Union | Capitaland largest city | Moscow .mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.… | 1.00 | infobox |
| Soviet Union | Currency | Soviet ruble (руб) (SUR) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Soviet Union | Demonym | Soviet | 1.00 | infobox |
| Soviet Union | Ethnic groups (1989) | 70% East Slavs | 1.00 | infobox |
| Soviet Union | Ethnic groups (1989) | 17% Turkic | 1.00 | infobox |
| Soviet Union | Ethnic groups (1989) | 13% other | 1.00 | infobox |
| Soviet Union | GDP (nominal) | 1990 estimate | 1.00 | infobox |
| Soviet Union | GDP .mw-parser-output .nobold{font-weight:normal}(PPP) | 1989 estimate | 1.00 | infobox |
| Soviet Union | Gini (1989) | 27.5 @media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output div:not(.notheme)>.tmp-color,html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output p>.tmp-color,html.skin-them… | 1.00 | infobox |
| Soviet Union | Government | Federal communist state | 1.00 | infobox |
| Soviet Union | HDI (1990 formula) | 0.920 very high | 1.00 | infobox |
| Soviet Union | Historical era | Interwar period | 1.00 | infobox |
| Soviet Union | Historical era | World War II | 1.00 | infobox |
| Soviet Union | Historical era | Cold War | 1.00 | infobox |
| Soviet Union | Internet TLD | .su[m] | 1.00 | infobox |
| Soviet Union | ISO 3166 code | SU | 1.00 | infobox |
| Soviet Union | Legislature | Congress of Soviets (1922–1936)[i] | 1.00 | infobox |
| Soviet Union | Legislature | Supreme Soviet (1936–1991) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Soviet Union | Official languages | Russian[a] | 1.00 | infobox |
| Soviet Union | Recognised regional languages | Ukrainian | 1.00 | infobox |
| Soviet Union | Recognised regional languages | Belarusian | 1.00 | infobox |
| Soviet Union | Recognised regional languages | Uzbek | 1.00 | infobox |
| Soviet Union | Recognised regional languages | Kazakh | 1.00 | infobox |
| Soviet Union | Recognised regional languages | Georgian | 1.00 | infobox |
| Soviet Union | Recognised regional languages | Azerbaijani | 1.00 | infobox |
| Soviet Union | Recognised regional languages | Lithuanian | 1.00 | infobox |
| Soviet Union | Recognised regional languages | Moldavian[b] | 1.00 | infobox |
| Soviet Union | Recognised regional languages | Latvian | 1.00 | infobox |
| Soviet Union | Recognised regional languages | Kyrgyz | 1.00 | infobox |
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