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An index of articles related to the former nation known as the Soviet Union. It covers the Soviet revolutionary period until the dissolution of the Soviet Union. This list includes topics, events, persons and other items of national significance within the Soviet Union. It does not include places within the Soviet Union, unless the place is associated with an event of national significance (e.g., Moscow). This index also does not contain items related to Soviet Military History.
0–9
- 1924 Soviet Constitution
- 1936 Soviet Constitution
- 1940–1944 insurgency in Chechnya
- 1951 anti-Chechen pogrom in Eastern Kazakhstan
- 1958 Grozny riots
- 1965 Soviet economic reform
- 1970s Soviet Union aliyah
- 1973 Soviet economic reform
- 1977 Soviet Constitution
- 1978 Russian Constitution
- 1979 Soviet economic reform
- 1980 Summer Olympics
- 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt
- 1991 Soviet referendum
A
- Abkhaz Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
- Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union
- Adjar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
- Administrator of Affairs of the Soviet Union
- Agriculture in the Soviet Union
- Akhmatova, Anna
- All-Russian Central Executive Committee
- All-Russian Congress of Soviets
- All-Russian Scientific Research And Design Institute of Energy Technology
- American Committee for the Defense of Leon Trotsky
- Andreyev, Andrey Andreyevich
- Andropov, Yuri – Soviet leader from 1982 to 1984
- Anti-Party Group
- Anti-revisionism
- Anti-Stalinist left
- Apollo–Soyuz
- Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic
- Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia
- Astron (spacecraft)
- Attempted assassination of Leonid Brezhnev
- Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republics of the Soviet Union
- Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic
B
- Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
- Belavezha Accords
- Beria, Lavrentiy – Soviet politician and Secret Police Official
- Bibliography of Stalinism and the Soviet Union
- Bibliography of the Post Stalinist Soviet Union
- Bibliography of the Russian Revolution and Civil War
- Bogdanov, Alexander
- Bolsheviks
- Bourgeoisie
- Brezhnev, Leonid – Soviet leader from 1964 to 1982
- Brezhnev Doctrine
- Brezhnev's trilogy
- Broadcasting in the Soviet Union
- Bukharin, Nikolai
- Bulganin, Nikolai
- Buryat Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
C
- Case of the Anti-Soviet "Bloc of Rightists and Trotskyites"
- Case of Trotskyist Anti-Soviet Military Organization
- Censorship in the Soviet Union
- Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union
- Checheno-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
- Chernobyl disaster
- Cheka – a short commonly used abbreviation for the "All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage."
- Chelomey, Vladimir
- Chernenko, Konstantin – Soviet leader from 1984 to 1985
- Chervyakov, Alexander
- Chronology of Soviet secret police agencies
- Cold War
- Collective farming
- Collective leadership in the Soviet Union
- Collectivization in the Soviet Union
- Commemorative coins of the Soviet Union
- Communism
- Communism in 20 years
- Communist party
- Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- Communist Party of Armenia
- Communist Party of Azerbaijan
- Communist Party of Byelorussia
- Communist Party of Estonia
- Communist Party of Georgia
- Communist Party of Kazakhstan
- Communist Party of Kirghizia
- Communist Party of Latvia
- Communist Party of Lithuania
- Communist Party of Moldova
- Communist Party of Tajikistan
- Communist Party of Turkmenistan
- Communist Party of Ukraine
- Communist Party of Uzbekistan
- Congress of People's Deputies of the Soviet Union
- Congress of Soviets of the Soviet Union
- Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- 12th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (1923)
- 13th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (1924)
- 14th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (1925)
- 15th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (1927)
- 16th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (1930)
- 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (1934)
- 18th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (1939)
- 19th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1952)
- 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1956)
- 21st Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1959)
- 22nd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1961)
- 23rd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1966)
- 24th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1971)
- 25th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1976)
- 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1981)
- 27th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1986)
- 28th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1990)
- Constitution of the Soviet Union
- Congress of Soviets
- Consumer goods in the Soviet Union
- Council of Defense of the USSR
- Congress of People's Deputies of the Soviet Union
- Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union
- Council of People's Commissars
- Criticism of communism
- Cuba–Soviet Union relations
- Culture of the Soviet Union
D
- Dagestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
- Dates of establishment of diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union
- Decree about Arrests, Prosecutor Supervision and Course of Investigation
- De-Stalinization
- Death and state funeral of Joseph Stalin
- Death and state funeral of Leonid Brezhnev
- Death and state funeral of Vladimir Lenin
- Death dates of victims of the Great Purge
- Declaration of the Creation of the USSR
- Declaration of the Rights of the Peoples of Russia
- Defense Council (Soviet Union)
- Dekulakization
- Demographics of the Soviet Union
- Demokratizatsiya (Soviet Union)
- Deportation of the Chechens and Ingush
- Deportation of Chinese in the Soviet Union
- Deportation of the Crimean Tatars
- Deportation of the Kalmyks
- Deportation of Koreans in the Soviet Union
- Deportation of the Meskhetian Turks
- Deputies of the Soviet Union
- Détente
- Dewey Commission
- Dissolution of the Soviet Union
- Doctors' plot
- Dual power
- Dzerzhinsky, Felix
E
F
- Family in the Soviet Union
- Famines in Russia and USSR
- Famine of 1921–22
- Famine of 1921–22 in Tatarstan
- Famine of 1932–33
- Famine of 1946–47
- Holodomor – Famine of 1932–33 in Ukraine
- Kazakh famine of 1932–33
- Fashion in the Soviet Union
- First Deputies of the Soviet Union
- First Russian Society of Communist Agricultural Workers
- First Ladies of the Soviet Union
- Five-year plans for the national economy of the Soviet Union
- Flag of the Soviet Union
- Flag of the Armenian SSR
- Flag of Azerbaijan SSR
- Flag of Byelorussian SSR
- Flag of the Estonian SSR
- Flag of the Georgian SSR
- Flag of the Karelo-Finnish SSR
- Flag of the Kazakh SSR
- Flag of the Kirghiz SSR
- Flag of the Latvian SSR
- Flag of the Lithuanian SSR
- Flag of the Moldavian SSR
- Flag of the Russian SFSR
- Flag of the Tajik SSR
- Flag of the Transcaucasion SFSR
- Flag of the Turkmen SSR
- Flag of the Ukrainian SSR
- Flag of the Uzbek SSR
- Forced settlements in the Soviet Union
- Foreign Literature Committee
- Foreign relations of the Soviet Union
- Foreign trade of the Soviet Union
- Frunze, Mikhail
G
- Gagarin, Yuri
- General Directorate for the Protection of State Secrets in the Press
- General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- Geography of the Soviet Union
- Glasnost
- Glossary of Russian and USSR aviation acronyms
- Glassboro Summit Conference
- Glavpolitprosvet – also known as Main Political and Educational Committee of the People's Commissariat of Education of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic
- Glushko, Valentin
- Gorbachev, Mikhail
- Gorky, Maxim
- Gosplan
- Government of the Soviet Union
- Great construction projects of communism
- Great Plan for the Transformation of Nature
- Great Purge
- Grechko, Andrei
- Gulag
- Gumilyov, Lev
H
I
J
- Joint State Political Directorate – commonly known as the OGPU, the secret police of the Soviet Union from 1923 to 1934.
K
- Kabardino-Balkarian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
- Kaganovich, Lazar
- Kalinin, Mikhail
- Karelian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
- Kazakh famine of 1932–33
- Kazakh Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic
- KGB
- Khaibakh massacre
- Khrushchev, Nikita – Soviet leader from 1953 to 1964 and Ukrainian SSR leader from 1938 to 1949
- Khrushchev Thaw
- Kirichenko, Alexei
- Kirilenko, Andrei
- Kirov, Sergei
- Kolkhoz
- Komi Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
- Komsomol
- Korean Air Lines Flight 007
- Korenizatsiya
- Kosygin, Alexei – The longest serving Chairman of the Council of Ministers (e.g. Premier)
- Kosygin reform – A renowned Soviet economic reform
- Kremlin
- Kremlin Wall
- Kremlin Wall Necropolis
- Krestinsky, Nikolay
- Krupskaya, Nadezhda
- Kulak
- Kuznetsov, Vasili
L
- Labor army
- Languages of the Soviet Union
- Law of the Soviet Union
- League of Militant Atheists
- Lenin, Vladimir – First Soviet leader from 1922 to 1924
- Lenin's Mausoleum
- Lenin Prize
- Lenin's Testament
- Lenina Bayrah
- Leninism
- Likbez
- Literaturnaya Gazeta
- Litkens, Evgraf
- Lukyanov, Anatoly
- Lunacharsky, Anatoly
- Lysenko, Trofim
Lists
- Bibliography of Stalinism and the Soviet Union
- Bibliography of the Russian Revolution and Civil War
- List of chairmen of the KGB
- List of chairmen of the Soviet of Nationalities
- List of chairmen of the Soviet of the Union
- List of deputy premiers of the Soviet Union
- List of flag bearers for the Soviet Union at the Olympics
- List of governments of the Soviet Union
- List of heads of state of the Soviet Union
- List of Gulag camps
- List of leaders of the Soviet Union
- List of Soviet Antarctic expeditions
- List of Soviet films of the year by ticket sales
- List of Soviet Union–United States summits
M
- Main Directorate of State Security – commonly known as GUGB, the central security body for the NKVD.
- Maisky, Ivan
- Malenkov, Georgy – Soviet leader
- Mandelstam, Osip
- Mari Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
- Marxism
- Marxism–Leninism
- Mass graves in the Soviet Union
- Mass operations of the NKVD
- Mayakovsky, Vladimir
- Mensheviks
- Mikoyan, Anastas
- Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union
- Military-Industrial Commission of the USSR
- Ministries of the Soviet Union
- Ministry of Internal Affairs – commonly known as the MVD, a Soviet Secret Police agency.
- Mitrokhin Archive
- Molotov, Vyacheslav
- Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact
- Mordovian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
- Moscow
- Moscow Trials
N
- Nafta (oil company)
- Nakhichevan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
- National delimitation in the Soviet Union
- Nedelin catastrophe
- New Economic Policy
- New Soviet man
- Night of the Murdered Poets
- NKVD
- Greek Operation of the NKVD
- Latvian Operation of the NKVD
- Mass operations of the NKVD
- NKVD Order No. 00439
- NKVD Order No. 00447
- NKVD Order No. 00485
- NKVD Order No. 00593
- NKVD Order No. 00689
- NKVD prisoner massacres
- NKVD troika
- Polish Operation of the NKVD
- NKVD Order No. 00486
- Special Council of the NKVD
- North Ossetian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
- Northern river reversal
- Novodevichy Cemetery
O
P
- People's Commissariat for State Security – commonly known as the NKGB
- People's Commissariat for Agriculture
- People's Commissariat for Education
- People's Court (Soviet Union)
- People's correspondent
- Peredvizhniki
- Perestroika
- Pervukhin, Mikhail
- Petrovsky, Grigory
- Petrushevsky, Dmitry
- Podgorny, Nikolai
- Pokrovsky, Mikhail
- Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- Political repression in the Soviet Union
- Politics of the Soviet Union
- Population transfer in the Soviet Union
- Pravda
- Premier of the Soviet Union
- President of the Soviet Union
- Presidium of the Supreme Soviet
- Primakov, Yevgeny
- Printed media in the Soviet Union
- Procurator General of the Soviet Union
- Proletariat
- Propiska in the Soviet Union
- Public holidays in the Soviet Union
- Punin, Nikolay
- Purges of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- Pyatakov, Georgy
R
- Rabinovich, Grigory
- Racism in the Soviet Union
- Radio in the Soviet Union
- Rail transport in the Soviet Union
- Ready for Labour and Defence of the USSR
- Red Army
- Red Square
- Refusenik
- Religion in the Soviet Union
- Renovationism – also known as the Living Church and later the Orthodox Church in USSR.
- Republics of the Soviet Union
- Right Opposition
- Rise of Joseph Stalin
- Roerich, Nicholas
- Russian avant-garde
- Russian famine of 1921–22
- Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
- Rykov, Alexey – Soviet premier from 1924 to 1930
- Ryutin affair
- Ryutin, Martemyan
- Ryzhkov, Nikolai – Soviet premier from 1985 to 1991
S
- Saburov, Maksim
- Science and technology in the Soviet Union
- Scissors Crisis
- Second economy of the Soviet Union
- Shami-Damulla
- Shepilov, Dmitri
- Sholokhov, Mikhail
- Shvernik, Nikolai
- Sino-Soviet split
- Socialism
- Socialist realism
- Sokol space suit
- Sovetsky Sport
- Soviet (council)
- Soviet calendar
- Soviet crewed lunar programs
- Soviet cuisine
- Soviet democracy
- Soviet Empire
- Soviet of Nationalities
- Soviet of the Union
- Soviet Orientalist studies in Islam
- Soviet people
- Soviet republic (system of government)
- Soviet Revolutionary Communists (Bolsheviks)
- Soviet space program
- Soviet Union
- Soviet Union and the United Nations
- Soviet Union at the Olympics
- Soviet Union national ice hockey team
- Soviet Union national rugby union team
- Soviet Union women's national rugby union team
- Sovietization
- Sovnarkhoz – Regional Economic Soviet
- Soyuz (spacecraft)
- Space Race
- Special Council of the NKVD
- Spiritual Administration of the Muslims of Central Asia and Kazakhstan
- Sputnik 1
- Sputnik 2
- Stakhanov, Alexey
- Stakhanovite movement
- Stalin's cult of personality
- Stalin, Joseph – Soviet leader from 1924 to 1953
- Stalin's cult of personality
- Stalingrad – now known as Volgograd (1961–present), formerly known as Tsaritsyn (1589–1925)
- Stalinism
- Stalin Epigram
- Stalinist architecture
- Stasova, Elena
- State capitalism
- State Committee of the Soviet Union
- State Emblem of the Soviet Union
- State Planning Committee – also known as Gosplan.
- State Political Directorate – commonly known as the GPU, an intelligence service and secret police agency, operating from 1922 to 1923.
- State quality mark of the USSR
- Suppressed research in the Soviet Union
- Supreme Court of the Soviet Union
- Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union
- Suslov, Mikhail
- Sverdlov, Yakov
T
- Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
- Television in the Soviet Union
- Tereshkova, Valentina
- Tikhonov, Nikolai – Soviet Chairman of the Council of Ministers 1980–1985 and First Deputy from 1976 to 1980
- Tuvan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
- Transport in the Soviet Union
- Treaty of Moscow (1970)
- Treaty on the Creation of the USSR
- Trial of the Sixteen – Soviet show trial of Polish Underground Leaders (1945)
- Trotsky, Leon
- Trotskyism
- Tsaritsyn – now known as Volgograd (1961–present), formerly known as Stalingrad (1925–1961)
- Tskhakaya, Mikhail
U
V
- Vega program
- Venera
- Vladimir Lenin All-Union Pioneer Organization
- Volgograd formerly known as Tsaritsyn (1589–1925) and Stalingrad (1925–1961)
- Voluntary Sports Societies of the Soviet Union
- Voroshilov, Kliment
- Voskhod (spacecraft)
- Vostok programme
- Vostok (spacecraft)
W
Y
Z
See also
- Index of articles related to the Russian Revolution and Civil War
- Bibliography of the Russian Revolution and Civil War
- Bibliography of Stalinism and the Soviet Union
- Bibliography of the Post Stalinist Soviet Union
- Lists of country-related topics
- List of Russian people
Notes
References
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- ^ "Article 52". Archived from the original on 16 February 2019. Retrieved 4 February 2019.
- ^ Jan Plamper, The Stalin Cult: A Study in the Alchemy of Power (2012).
- ^ Isaac Deutscher, Stalin: A Polityical Biography (2nd edition, 1961) chapters 7–9 online
- ^ T. B. Bottomore. A Dictionary of Marxist thought. (Wiley-Blackwell, 1991). p. 54.
- ^ Rutland, Peter (1993). The Politics of Economic Stagnation in the Soviet Union: The Role of Local Party Organs in Economic Management. Cambridge University Press. p. 9. ISBN 978-0-521-39241-9.
[...] after 1953. [...] This was still an oppressive regime, but not a totalitarian one.
- ^ Krupnik, Igor (1995). "4. Soviet Cultural and Ethnic Policies Towards Jews: A Legacy Reassessed". In Ro'i, Yaacov (ed.). Jews and Jewish Life in Russia and the Soviet Union. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-714-64619-0.
The era of 'social engineering' in the Soviet Union ended with the death of Stalin in 1953 or soon after; and that was the close of the totalitarian regime itself.
- ^ von Beyme, Klaus (2014). On Political Culture, Cultural Policy, Art and Politics. Springer. p. 65. ISBN 978-3-319-01559-0.
The Soviet Union after the death of Stalin moved from totalitarianism to authoritarian rule.
- ^ Historical Dictionary of Socialism. James C. Docherty, Peter Lamb. Page 85. "The Soviet Union was a one-party Marxist-Leninist state".
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- ^ Leninist National Policy: Solution to the "National Question"? Archived 8 August 2014 at the Wayback Machine. Walker Connor. Page 31. "[...] four Marxist-Leninist states (the Soviet Union, China, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia)[...]".
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