Soviet Union

December 26, 1991 was the day that the Soviet Union was dissolved. This allowed self-governing to states that made up the former Union. This was a vital part of the Cold War. Axis and Allied powers had been at fighting proxy wars and dealing with espionage for years and this was the ending of the Soviet power that the Allies had been fighting for. Around this same time the internet was becoming slowly what we see it as today. The internet and World Wide Web were starting to become a tool for…

is a saying that goes, “Nothing lasts forever.” The Soviet Union thought that they would always have power and the nations they had control over would never break away however he USSR and the Eastern Bloc nations did break away. The Cold War started in 1947, a couple years after the end of World War II and ended in 1991. The Cold War was fought using proxy wars fought off their land such as the Korean War and the Vietnam War. In 1985, the Soviet economy was stagnant and faced a sharp fall in…

Marx’s Vision vs. USSR The Soviet Union had its roots in the Russian Revolution in 1917 in which the Bolsheviks, the majority of the Marxist Social Democratic Labour Party, defeated the provisional government and formed the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic. This sparked a civil war in which the pro-revolutionists, or Communists who were former Bolsheviks, eventually prevailed over the counter-revolutionists in 1922 and established the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The leader…

World War, the tension between America and the Soviet Union are still very much prominent. The intense friction has roots in core values each world power pictured the postwar world would look like. America expressed their perception as basically a loss of nationality globally, and ridding of military alliances. They wanted an organization to govern every country and protect everyone’s right of self-determination. On the other hand, the Soviet Union envisioned the postwar world with Major world…

States and the Soviet Union during WWII, a ‘cold war’ of words and ideas rapidly emerged in the immediate wake of that global conflict” (Sheets, 2016, p. 631). It was political and economic differences between the U.S. and U.S.S.R. that were what kept their ideologies contrary to one another. The United States did not believe in turning into a Communist country and viewed the Soviet Union as having a hateful philosophy that was determined to expand over the entire world. The Soviet Union’s…

After the Second World War ended, the Soviet Union (USSR) and United States of America emerged as the super powers of the world. But USSR’s and USA’s ideology was different. USSR was following the communist path while USA was following the capitalist path. So an ideological war was started and the geo-political tensions between these two blocs grew. Both countries were trying to influence their ideology throughout the world. USSR had already occupied Eastern Europe and USA made a pact with other…

Before there was a “Russia” as we know it today, Russia was better known as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). The USSR was a Marxist-Leninist state governed by a single party (Docherty, 1997, p. 85), and abided by a constitution known as the Brezhnev Constitution. This constitution was adopted in 1977 and was the third and last Soviet constitution before the fall of the USSR. The Brezhnev Constitution guaranteed a multitude of political and civil rights nearly identical to those…

claim that the Soviet Union lost the Cold War Introduction With the disintegration of Soviet Union, the Cold War era, which lasted as long as 40 years, had come to an end. The last Soviet Premier Gorbachev, ironically, been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize after his failed reformation and governance in Soviet Union, which, to put it the other way round, could been seen as affirmation for his struggle to pave the way for nuclear agreement and open the seriously bureaucratic Soviet Union to the…

War II around the world stayed home to raise their children and work in factories, the women of Soviet Russia were in the action of the War. With In result of this action of the Soviet women being drafted and volunteering in the war because of the numbers of men were low. Even though this did not have a big impact on other women in the world, it had changed the traditional view of women in Soviet Union society empowering them to take on bigger things and creating a feminist meritocracy. This…

This is an investigation of the role Leninism and Stalinism played in tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States prior to 1947. This investigation will attempt to answer the question: To what extent did Leninism and Stalinism contribute to pre-Cold War tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States? V. I. Lenin ‘Left-Wing’ Communism - An infantile disorder This primary source was written by Lenin in 1920 and was originally published in booklet form in Russian before…