Examples of Soviet Socialist Republic in the following topics:
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- The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, abbreviated to USSR, was a union of multiple subnational Soviet republics; its government and economy were highly centralized.
- They established the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic (renamed Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic in 1936), beginning a civil war between the revolutionary "Reds" and the counter-revolutionary "Whites."
- During the opening stages of World War II, the Soviet Union laid the foundation for the Eastern Bloc (the name for the group of communist states of Central and Eastern Europe during the Cold War) by invading and then annexing several countries as Soviet Socialist Republics, by agreement with Nazi Germany in the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact.
- According to Article 76 of the Constitution of the Soviet Union, a Union Republic was a sovereign Soviet socialist state that had united with other Soviet Republics in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
- Throughout the Eastern Bloc, both in the Soviet Socialist Republic and the rest of the Bloc, Russia was given prominence, and referred to as the naibolee vydajuščajasja nacija (the most prominent nation) and the rukovodjaščij narod (the leading people).
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- But at Yalta, Roosevelt and Churchill largely conceded to Stalin's demands to annex the territory which in the Nazi-Soviet Pact he and Hitler had agreed to the Soviet Union controlling, including Kresy, and to carry out Polish population transfers (1944–1946).
- Consequently, they had agreed that tens of thousands of veteran Polish troops under British command should lose their Kresy homes to the Soviet Union.
- After receiving considerable criticism in London following Yalta regarding the atrocities committed in Poland by Soviet troops, Churchill wrote Roosevelt a desperate letter referencing the wholesale deportations and liquidations of opposition Poles by the Soviets.
- We'll do it our own way later. " While the Soviet Union had already annexed several occupied countries as (or into) Soviet Socialist Republics, other countries in eastern Europe that it occupied were converted into Soviet-controlled satellite states, such as the People's Republic of Poland, the People's Republic of Hungary, the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, the People's Republic of Romania, the People's Republic of Albania, and later East Germany from the Soviet zone of German occupation.
- Map shows territory in eastern Poland annexed by the Soviet Union, as well as territorial gains in the West at Germany's expense.
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- Roosevelt wanted Soviet support in the U.S.
- Poland was the first item on the Soviet agenda.
- It was agreed to reorganize the communist Provisional Government of the Republic of Poland that had been installed by the Soviet Union "on a broader democratic basis."
- Stalin requested that all of the 16 Soviet Socialist Republics would be granted U.N. membership.
- This was taken into consideration, but 14 republics were denied.
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- Most of Europe became aligned with either the United States or the Soviet Union.
- During the opening stages of World War II, the Soviet Union laid the foundation for the Eastern Bloc by directly annexing several countries as Soviet Socialist Republics that were initially ceded to it by Nazi Germany in the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact.
- The Soviet-style regimes that arose in the satellite states not only reproduced Soviet command economies, but also adopted the brutal methods employed by Joseph Stalin and Soviet secret police to suppress real and potential opposition.
- The Soviet Union's alternative to the Marshall plan, which was purported to involve Soviet subsidies and trade with eastern Europe, became known as the Molotov Plan.
- Berliners watch an aircraft take part in the Berlin Airlift, which was a successful attempt to circumvent the Soviet blockade of non-Soviet Berlin.
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- It was not until the 1980s that the Soviet livestock numbers would return to their 1928 level.
- Government bureaucrats, who had been given a rudimentary education on farming techniques, were dispatched to the countryside to "teach" peasants the new ways of socialist agriculture, relying largely on Marxist theoretical ideas that had little basis in reality.
- Soviet and other historians have argued that the rapid collectivization of agriculture was necessary in order to achieve an equally rapid industrialization of the Soviet Union and ultimately win World War II.
- The Soviet famine of 1932–33 affected the major grain-producing areas of the Soviet Union, leading to millions of deaths in those areas and severe food shortage throughout the USSR.
- The subset of the famine within the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, the Kuban, is called Holodomor, all of which were heavily populated by Ukrainians.
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- On the Eastern Front, the front line at the end of December 1943 remained in the Soviet Union but, by August 1944, Soviet forces were inside Poland and parts of Romania as part of their drive west.
- Poland was the first item on the Soviet agenda.
- Creation of a reparation council which would be located in the Soviet Union.
- Stalin requested that all of the 16 Soviet Socialist Republics would be granted UN membership.
- This was taken into consideration, but 14 republics were denied.
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- The goal of Marxism–Leninism is the development of a state into a socialist republic through the leadership of a revolutionary vanguard, the part of the working class who come to class consciousness as a result of the dialectic of class struggle.
- Within five years of Vladimir Lenin's death in 1924, Stalin completed his rise to power in the Soviet Union.
- During the period of Stalin's rule in the Soviet Union, Marxism–Leninism was proclaimed the official ideology of the state.
- Stalin's introduction of the concept "Socialism in One Country" in 1924 was a major turning point in Soviet ideological discourse, which claimed that the Soviet Union did not need a socialist world revolution to construct a socialist society.
- Vladimir Lenin, leader of the Soviet Union from 1917 to 1924, was one of the most influential figures of the 20th Century.
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- During Stalin's rule, Soviet culture was characterized by the rise and domination of the government-imposed style of socialist realism, with all other trends being severely repressed, and at the same time a degree of social liberalization including more equality for women.
- It was contributed to by people of various nationalities from every of 15 union republics, although a slight majority of them were Russians.
- Later, during Stalin's rule, Soviet culture was characterized by the rise and domination of the government-imposed style of socialist realism, with all other trends being severely repressed, with rare exceptions, for example Mikhail Bulgakov's works.
- The purpose of socialist realism was to limit popular culture to a specific, highly regulated faction of creative expression that promoted Soviet ideals.
- The Worker and Kolkhoz Woman by Vera Mukhina (1937), an example of socialist realism during the Stalin Era.
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- In 1928, Stalin introduced the First Five-Year Plan for building a socialist economy.
- In December 1936, Stalin unveiled a new Soviet Constitution.
- The two countries concluded the German–Soviet Nonaggression Pact and the German–Soviet Commercial Agreement in August 1939.
- In late November of the same year, unable to coerce the Republic of Finland by diplomatic means into moving its border 16 miles back from Leningrad, Joseph Stalin ordered the invasion of Finland.
- Stalin depicted in the style of Socialist Realism.
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- In one example of socialism, the Soviet Union, state ownership was combined with central planning.
- In the West, neoclassical liberal economists such as Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman said that socialist planned economies would fail because planners could not have the business information inherent to a market economy (cf. economic calculation problem), nor could managers in Soviet-style socialist economies match the motivation of profit.
- Consequent to Soviet economic stagnation in the 1970s and 1980s, socialists began to accept parts of these critiques.
- Socialists inspired by the Soviet model of economic development have advocated the creation of centrally planned economies directed by a state that owns all the means of production.
- The People's Republic of China, North Korea, Laos and Vietnam are Asian states remaining from the first wave of socialism in the 20th century.