Internal Workings of the Soviet Union

soviet union  6 Star City The main training base for Soviet cosmonauts, located just outside Moscow, and Russia's main cosmonaut training base Collectivisation and purges 1922 - Union treaty formally joins Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and the Transcaucasus

Planned by hard-line Communists, the coup diminished Gorbachev's power and propelled Yeltsin and the democratic forces to the forefront of Soviet and Russian In this book, communism means a doctrine based on revolutionary Marxian socialism and Marxism-Leninism, which is the official ideology of the Soviet Union

It is often said that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was founded in response to the threat posed by the Soviet Union  In the former Soviet republics, opinions vary over whether their countries should ally more closely with the European Union or with Russia (