Upon the Soviet Union's dissolution, the Ukrainian SSR was transformed into the independent state of Ukraine. Throughout its 72-year history, the Ukrainian SSR's borders changed many times, ...

The Tajik autonomous republic was formed in 1924 as part of the Uzbek SSR, but in 1929 it became a fully-fledged Soviet Socialist Republic of the Union. Between 1929-1961, the capital, Dushanbe ...

In 1991, the Soviet Union was a true administrative monster that held together as many as 173 different territorial entities: ... In 1954, the Ukraine SSR got a gift from the RSFSR: ...

According to Kobiakov, the ratification of the Belovezh Accords on Dec. 8, 1991, by the Supreme Soviets of the RSFSR (Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic), the Ukrainian SSR, and the ...

The Soviet "autonomous Moldavia," carved out of the Ukrainian SSR, had an area of 8,300 square kilometers and a population of some 500,000. Accessibility links Skip to main content ...

On December 8, 1991, in a move to recognise each other's independence, the leaders of three of the Union's founding and largest republics (the Russian SFSR, the Ukrainian SSR, and the Byelorussian ...

On March 26, 1989, citizens of the Soviet Union went to the polls to choose members of the Congress of People’s Deputies, a new super-legislature created by Mikhail Gorbachev’s changes to the ...

The Soviet Union, or USSR, was a state that was formed after the Russian revolution in 1917, and the subsequent three-year civil war. It was founded on a political system of Marxist socialism ...

On Aug. 20, 1991, an attempted coup by Communist hardliners in Moscow precipitated a succession of events in Estonia that, on the same day, led to a resolution of the Supreme Soviet of the Estonian ...

THE USSR was one of the largest political, military, and economic powers in the world during the 20th century. The Soviet Union was formed of 15 member countries, all ruled by one central communist… ...